Just today, i was picking up all the materials for my science project, which really is the worst part of my entire school year, and i needed hair to do the experiment... I started going from barber shop to barber shop, all over Miami. No one in any barber shop had hair. My mom goes like "maybe they dont want to give you hair because it has the person's DNA"(lololo)... We finally got hair in one barber shop. From then on, i started understanding better the frase "one man's garbage, is another man's treasure" . But anyways, i kept thinking, why in the friking world would my mom think the barbers want to keep the hair because it has a person's DNA?????

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Lolololol! . Well i'll tell you something, back here in Miami, Fl.(Hialeah to be especific) i dont think it's about health issues. Maybe they really didnt had hair... ???

Hi B1....!
If you do manage to get some hair from the barbers shop, then post some over to me, 'cos I'm starting to get a bit thin on top.... ...!
Thanks.... ...!
LOL...!

Paul.

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For those of you that have been confused by the word "Inflammable" read this:

Historically, flammable and inflammable mean the same thing. However, the presence of the prefix in- has misled many people into assuming that inflammable means “not flammable” or “noncombustible.” The prefix -in in inflammable is not, however, the Latin negative prefix -in, which is related to the English -un and appears in such words as indecent and inglorious. Rather, this -in is an intensive prefix derived from the Latin preposition in. This prefix also appears in the word enflame. But many people are not aware of this derivation, and for clarity's sake it is advisable to use only flammable to give warnings.

I had a gray hair fall out the other day.  I'm a little conflicted about that one.  I mean it's gray, but it is still a hair...

one thing people, my scientific project(now that i think about it)has something to do with flammabilities; i used petroleum to do it. It's about 2 home made oil[petroleum] filters. The hair idea came from an internet site, and so i tryed to filter oil with the hairy filter, and another filter made of some kind of clothing material . then i poured the oiled water into the filter, and it came out outstandantly clean . And that's the thing... Hope to get an A+

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I'll be d*mned! And saying i am working at a plant where we construct large concrete basins to separate oil from water. The only thing we need is a hair-filter. By the way, how many barbers should i visit to collect enough hair to treat a flow of 100 l/s? 

You're not the first one to come up with the idea of a "hair filter".

Many researchers have long believed that "feathers" can hold the most amount of oil because of the way how the feather was naturally made.

This method was used to clean out oil spills and other related problems.

One day, a barberer wanted to know how much oil a handful of hair can hold.

Since he works at a barber shop, he collected whatever hair he can gather. He then borrowed his wife's panty-hose so that he can use it to hold the large amount of hair. He filled up a small inflateble pool with water and added oil to it.

He dipped the "hair filter" into the pool and stirred a little.

Amazingly, the whole pool became clean enough to sparkle like H377.

Many researchers then decided to make a study on the human hair. They discovered that a handul of hair can hold a lot more oil than a handful of feathers.

The human hair is naturally made our of over-lapping segments that allows it to trap more oil between each segment.

Feathers don't have segments and only use the spaces that are between the strands. And there's not that many spaces.

Since the segments of the hair are only visible under a microscope [a human hair is long as well], they can trap the oil molecules better.