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Vegeta
Skeptic Friend
United Kingdom
238 Posts |
Posted - 03/05/2007 : 15:01:44 [Permalink]
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I wrote half a post explaining that i couldn't understand how it worked, then it clicked in my head halfway through.
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What are you looking at? Haven't you ever seen a pink shirt before?
"I was asked if I would do a similar sketch but focusing on the shortcomings of Islam rather than Christianity. I said, 'No, no I wouldn't. I may be an atheist but I'm not stupid.'" - Steward Lee |
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Vegeta
Skeptic Friend
United Kingdom
238 Posts |
Posted - 03/05/2007 : 15:03:21 [Permalink]
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| yeah thanks Dr. For some reason I was preoccupied with the notion that half the sphere would be pulling you one way and the other half would be pulling you the other, then while typing this out I realised what you just explained |
What are you looking at? Haven't you ever seen a pink shirt before?
"I was asked if I would do a similar sketch but focusing on the shortcomings of Islam rather than Christianity. I said, 'No, no I wouldn't. I may be an atheist but I'm not stupid.'" - Steward Lee |
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Neurosis
SFN Regular
USA
675 Posts |
 Posted - 03/05/2007 : 16:04:01 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dr. Mabuse
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Originally posted by Neurosis
If you imagine all the molecules in the room being pulled down, the ones already down will be forced over.
Eh... No, not really. They ones already down will still occupy the down region. But they will now have to compete for the space: hence the pressure will increase. Only the lighter molecules, and hotter molecules will rise due to having less mass per unit volume.
They will bump into one another. That is what I meant. Meaning more and more will accumulate at the bottom of the "floor", or outside edge of the spinning hull. So you and the air will stay in the same relative location to the hull. Even though both you and the air are moving in a circle. I was trying to envision it like molecules in a suspension in a centrifuge.
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The same as cold water and hot water in a circular tube. When the heated water replaces the cold and so forth you get a spinning motion.
Hot water is less dense than cold water, cold water being heavier push away the lighter hot water, making it float on the cold.
Yes in a tub. But in a tube that is a circle. Hot water on bottom, rises to the top, cold water replaces it from the sides and that then pushes the cold on the top (because the heat source is on the bottom corner) to the bottom and so forth. |
Facts! Pssh, you can prove anything even remotely true with facts.
- Homer Simpson
[God] is an infinite nothing from nowhere with less power over our universe than the secretary of agriculture.
- Prof. Frink
Lisa: Yes, but wouldn't you rather know the truth than to delude yourself for happiness?
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26020 Posts |
Posted - 03/08/2007 : 07:52:05 [Permalink]
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| Okay, three weeks ago I paid $2.09/gallon for regular gas. Last night, I paid $2.49 at the same gas station. What the hell is going on? |
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Evidently, I rock!
Why not question something for a change?
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Vegeta
Skeptic Friend
United Kingdom
238 Posts |
Posted - 03/08/2007 : 08:10:35 [Permalink]
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| you still paid right? need I say more? |
What are you looking at? Haven't you ever seen a pink shirt before?
"I was asked if I would do a similar sketch but focusing on the shortcomings of Islam rather than Christianity. I said, 'No, no I wouldn't. I may be an atheist but I'm not stupid.'" - Steward Lee |
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R.Wreck
SFN Regular
USA
1191 Posts |
Posted - 03/08/2007 : 19:24:45 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
Okay, three weeks ago I paid $2.09/gallon for regular gas. Last night, I paid $2.49 at the same gas station. What the hell is going on?
Hmmmm, what could be the problem? |
The foundation of morality is to . . . give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibliities of knowledge.
T. H. Huxley
The Cattle Prod of Enlightened Compassion
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26020 Posts |
Posted - 03/08/2007 : 20:42:14 [Permalink]
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| Well, to be serious about the gas-price thing for a minute, the last time I remember it jumping up so fast was right after Katrina. At least they had an excuse, of sorts, then. |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26020 Posts |
Posted - 04/14/2007 : 18:12:11 [Permalink]
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Have any meteors ever been witnessed coming through cloud cover while glowing hot?
I was just thinking that'd probably be pretty cool and terrifying at the same time. |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 04/15/2007 : 03:59:15 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
Have any meteors ever been witnessed coming through cloud cover while glowing hot?
I was just thinking that'd probably be pretty cool and terrifying at the same time.
Yes. I win.
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
4955 Posts |
Posted - 04/15/2007 : 05:01:31 [Permalink]
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| Why do pickles have no calories? |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 04/15/2007 : 05:27:50 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Cuneiformist
Why do pickles have no calories?
I dunno -- she looks caloretic enough to me....
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