Bursting money bins, the ice and water structure

Dept. of Physics and Astronomy and Center for the Study of Complex Dynamics, University of Florence, Italy – Via G. Sansone, 1 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI) Italy

^* Email: franco.bagnoli@unifi.it

Abstract

In the classic comics by Carl Barks, “The Big Bin on Killmotor Hill” [1], Uncle Scrooge, trying to defend his money bin from the Beagle Boys, follows a suggestion by Donald Duck, and fills the bin with water. Unfortunately, that night is going be the coldest one in the history of Ducksburg. The water freezes, bursting the "ten-foot walls'' of the money bin, and finally the gigantic cube of ice and dollars slips down the hill up to the Beagle Boys lot.