German Museum Creates World's Tallest Mini-Tornado

[Khristian Snyder]

I thought this was pretty cool so I am passing it on:

The Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart put its smoke ventilation machine to the test Monday and -- on purpose -- made a 9-story-tall tornado.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,511752,00.html

 

[Marc Remillard]

Great simulation!

Look at this one:

From this site:
http://www.reelefx.com/

 

[Dan Robinson]

My brother and I made a crude tornado machine with some wooden panels, cardboard and a box fan over dry ice. It actually spun up some nice tubes.

 

[Marc Remillard]

My brother and I made a crude tornado machine with some wooden panels, cardboard and a box fan over dry ice. It actually spun up some nice tubes.

Yeah, I already built this "tornado in a box" machine, it was fun!