JV writes:

JV sent his message regarding this post via a translator at www.gizoogle.com

Greet'n WWWWWWVB memba,I concur wit tha gangsta opinions of tha board memba -- 
lets hold off on this nominizzles until Friday n see if anyth'n betta comes 
along. Ive seen tha commercial -- it is quite intrigu'n. The salesman states 
tha facts (as quoted) in an understated, pusha hustla fo my bling bling kndo 
way. The pizzy `bout spinn'n at 100,000 times tha force of gravity did seem a 
bit extreme at first, so I did a rough calculizzles (F=v^2/r).Assum'n r = 10 cm
n g ~ 10 m/s^2, tha wind velocity in tha vacuum would be 316 m/s or jizzay 
hustla tha speed of sound. If r = 5 cm, thizzay vmax would be 223 m/s. So I 
guess its possible -- CR, is tha vacuum very loud?
	

JV writes later:

If I were writing the commercial, I would do a comparative tale of two
weather situations. The first would show Langmuir boundary layer rolls
and a gentle synoptic upward forcing leading to puffy altocumulus clouds
-- this would represent the wimpy vacuum cleaner with horizontal
vortical mechanical action and wimpy suction. Bugs might occasionally be
lifted into the BL rolls from the surface (even wimpy vacs suck a
little). The second picture would show a dark ominous F5 sucking up mad
cows, houses, planes, trains, the EPCOT Center ball, etc. This of course
would show the listener how powerful the Dyson really was, especially
since the windspeeds are comparable (based on my analysis of their
100,000 times the force of gravity mention). 
	  

Former vacuum cleaner salesman (aka CR's brother) (21 July 2005; Green Bay, WI):

One flaw.  Air flow equals cleaning ability, not suction.  You can hook a harley
davidson motor up to your vacuum, have enough suction to lift up your TV, but
will anything be cleaned?  You can have suction, and not have airflow.  Is this
in the advertisment for dyson at all?  No.  It fails in all the same ways that 
a $35 hoover from K-mart will fail.  What about your science?  Is it just as
flawed as this vacuum that you speak of?
	 

JH writes:

I really have no idea what he's talking about.  Perhaps the esteemed reader 
could provide definitions of "airflow" and "suction"?  For example, I think 
that if I hooked a Harley up to my vacuum, there would be some pretty 
tremendous velocities at the end of that hose.  I bet you could clean the 
ticks off a porcupine from a meter away.
	  

MR responds:

What about your science? Is it just as flawed as this vacuum that you speak of?

Probably, but I fail to see how increased generation of vacuum wouldn't 
generate an increase in airflow, unless you seal the thing to the ground with 
duct tape before you fire it up.  I understand that continuity of mass is a 
hard concept for some people to grasp, but hey, maybe the whole concept is 
flawed.  
	  

CR responds to his brother:

I think it's time to give my brother another noogie!
	  

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