Here’s a great trick to throw at a dinner party …

So you’re sitting at the big table, like a big boy or big girl, surrounded by people you know and there’s food in front of you because hey! you’re at get-together feast being thrown by one of your good buds. You interrupt the ambient chatter, grab everyone’s attention with a shout or a whistle, and announce that you have something to show them. You grab your bottle of water or beer or whathaveyou, pick up the glass that complements it, and say “I’m going to pour this drink UP into my cup!” You proceed to hold the cup upside down OVER the bottle and wait for it to trickle in. Only, nothing happens. Not only does everyone start chatting and ignore you soon thereafter, but it’s the last dinner party you will ever be invited to. So get your fill (don’t be sheepish about seconds or thirds).

To contrast this woeful tale about spoiled attention-seeking hijinks, we bring you the following clip, which is of a fighter pilot doing the aforementioned trick, but actually pulling it off successfully (because he/she is spinning around in an aircraft going hundreds of miles an hour) …

Allow the good people at WIRED to explain what’s going on with this physical phenomena:

If you could just see the water from a stationary reference frame (maybe a floating hot air balloon), you would see the water indeed falling down. Now, I remember that I said “falling down” and not “moving down”. The water actually might be moving up. The key is that even though it is moving up, it is accelerating down. The plane also is accelerating down. As long as the downward acceleration of the plane is greater than the water, the water will move into the cup above it.

Thirsty now? We’re sorry.

SPLOID