How Much Does A Cloud Weigh?

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Posted by simoniker on Wednesday September 3, 2003 @05:58PM from the fluffy-but-heavy dept.

MyNameIsFred writes "ABC News is running an article revealing unexpected facts about weather formations. Ever wonder how much a cloud weighs? What about a hurricane? A meteorologist has done some estimates and the results might surprise you..." Reports that include the phrase "more than all the elephants on the planet" are always welcome.

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TI-89 Issues by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-03 17:59 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you TI fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of my calculator (a TI-89) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to invert a 7 by 7 matrix. 20 minutes. At home, on my HP48 running at 4 Mhz, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this TI, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.

In addition, during this matrix inversion, The calculator will not work. It has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.

I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various TI calculators, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a TI that has run faster than its HP counterpart, despite the TI's faster chip architecture. My Casio FX-100 runs faster than this 10 Mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the TI is a superior machine.

TI addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use TI calculators over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
Its an Addiction by soliaus · 2003-09-03 18:04 · Score: 1, Offtopic

In Soviet Russia, Cloud weigh YOU!

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1. Re:Its an Addiction by soliaus · 2003-09-03 18:07 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  Oops, forgot to check the "Anonymous" box.
  
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2. Re:Its an Addiction by soliaus · 2003-09-03 19:14 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  This is not funny, only asshats with mod points would consider this funny. Yes, thats you!!
  
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The upcoming version of MS Office.... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-03 18:05 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Will not only lock out OO opening all the current docs it does so FLAWLESSLY AND WONDERFULLY now (even though they've maintained backwards compatibility for YEARS), but it will prevent the proper formation of clouds by weighing them down too much, and the Earth will perish. I heard a rumor, and it's portraying MS as a bad guy, so it HAS TO BE TRUE! POST IT ON /.!
Yeah, by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-03 18:11 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I just don't know how anyone is gonna say anything intelligent about that...
Re:I see sco... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-03 18:27 · Score: -1, Offtopic

clouds.

Guess everytime you look at clouds now you will have to pay SCO.

Shame.
Re:Don't be afraid by inaeldi · 2003-09-03 19:14 · Score: 0, Offtopic

No THAT's funny. :P
Re:sad by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-03 20:26 · Score: -1, Offtopic

that deserves a +3 insightful
Elephant poo by sward · 2003-09-03 22:54 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Yeah, but how much do clouds weight when the unit of weight is elephant poo? And how does that change if the elephant has diarrhea?
But more importantly.... by Da+Fokka · 2003-09-03 23:06 · Score: 0, Offtopic

How many libraries of congress do these clouds weigh?!