.... Posted January 12, 2004 Share Posted January 12, 2004 I think it's a picture of a twig in a chinese ashtray full of water. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xer34 Posted January 12, 2004 Share Posted January 12, 2004 I think it's a picture of a twig in a chinese ashtray full of water. lol.. no i think youre wrong its an ancient chinese ashtray full of water.. geez.. ppl now-a-days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MxxCon Posted January 12, 2004 Share Posted January 12, 2004 some metals naturally have magnetic fields. just becuase it wasn't artifically magnetized doesn't mean it's neutral. i'm sure greate chinese educatation system tought you that allows made with Manganese will have ferromagnetic properties. and like it's been stated above, it's very obvious how that compas works.. and if what JB posted is true, i question if those "antique experts in China" are "experts" at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
**marisa** Posted January 12, 2004 Share Posted January 12, 2004 lol.. no i think youre wrongits an ancient chinese ashtray full of water.. geez.. ppl now-a-days LOL! JB, its just a fricking compass dude! with like a magnetized needle and other such stuff... however, it could be interesting in that it maybe quite old, and archeologically quite intriguing. Revolutionary? No. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayamaniac Posted January 12, 2004 Share Posted January 12, 2004 this is no great find, the needle compass is common knowledge. I don't even remember when I first heard of this, when I was pretty young. The needle does need to be "magetnized." You need need to rub it against wool or other coarse material to make it static. Then put it on a stem, could be a small leaf also, and float it on a small pond of water and it will point north. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack_canada Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 South=north,,if it points north, then the opposite side is south... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leedogg Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 Perhaps the container is made of something special which magnitizes whatever you put inside...or perhaps it isolates the object from extraneous forces so that it becomes super sensitive... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjordan2001 Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 Perhaps the container is made of something special which magnitizes whatever you put inside...or perhaps it isolates the object from extraneous forces so that it becomes super sensitive... Looks like regular ceramics to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark03 Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 guys, it's a compass :rolleyes: it's not like we can harness the energy from all the stars in the universe or fly to the moon in 4.345285 seconds or turn ourselves inside out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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