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Thin Water Acts Like a Solid
Roland Piquepaille writes "What happens when you compress water in a nano-sized space? According to Georgia Tech physicists, water starts to behave like a solid. "The confined water film behaves like a solid in the vertical direction by forming layers parallel to the confining surface, while maintaining it's liquidity in the horizontal direction where it can flow out," said one of the researchers. "Water is a wonderful lubricant, but it flows too easily for many applications. At the one nanometer scale, water is a viscous fluid and could be a much better lubricant," added another one."
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must be nice to have english as your first language
the preceding post was not spell checked... suck it.
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To my many friends, both known and unknown, wherever you may be, I submit these thoughts for your consideration. As this letter will make clear, Rudy Guiliani recently stated that freedom must be abolished in order for people to be more secure and comfortable. He said that with a straight face, without even cracking a smile or suppressing a giggle. He said it as if he meant it. That's scary, because his reason is not true reason. It does not seek the truth, but only addlepated answers, subhuman resolutions to conflicts. Yes, he may have some superficial charm, but Guiliani wants nothing less than to fight with spiritual weapons that are as refractory as they are pernicious, hence his repeated, almost hypnotic, insistence on the importance of his acrimonious revenge fantasies. Whenver he tries to fortify our feeble spirits with a few rehearsed words of bravado, I can't help but think that his occasional demonstrations of benevolence are not genuine. Nor are Guiliani's promises. In fact, you don't need to be a rocket scientist to detect the subtext of this letter. But just in case it's too subliminal for some, let me thrust it into your face right here: He is right about one thing, namely that fear is what motivates us. Fear of what it means when flagitious, inhumane ideologues promote group-think attitudes over individual insights. Fear of what it says about our society when we teach our children that there should be publicly financed centers of cynicism. And fear of pestilential, rapacious choleric-types like Guiliani who appropriate sacred symbols for crass purposes. Although grotty fogeys are relatively small in number compared to the general population, they are rapidly increasing in size and fervor. How dare Guiliani criticize my values when his are so obviously irrationalism-prone? Alas, he has been trying hard to protect what has become a lucrative racket for him. Unfortunately, that lucrative racket has a hard-to-overlook consequence: it will set the wolf to mind the sheep in the immediate years ahead.
Guiliani uses big words like "nondeterministic" to make himself sound important. For that matter, benevolent Nature has equipped another puny creature, the skunk, with a means of making itself seem important, too. Although Guiliani's notions may reek like a skunk, Guiliani's crusades are destructive. They're morally destructive, socially destructive -- even intellectually destructive. And, as if that weren't enough, Guiliani's method (or school, or ideology -- it is hard to know exactly what to call it) goes by the name of "Guiliani-ism". It is a phlegmatic and avowedly self-serving philosophy that aims to strap us down with a network of rules and regulations. Now, I hope Guiliani was joking when he implied he was going to impugn the patriotism of his opponents, but it sure didn't sound like it. He's more than malicious. Guiliani's mega-malicious. In fact, to understand just how malicious he is, you first need to realize that Guiliani contends that there's no difference between normal people like you and me and resentful, nit-picky common blood-stained criminals. Excuse me, but where exactly did this little factoid come from? On the surface, it would seem merely that I am confident that vulgar, hostile devotees of conspiracy theories will come to their own conclusions about all of these matters. But the truth is that he's a psychologically defective person. He's what the psychiatrists call a constitutional psychopath or a sociopath.
The academicism "debate" is not a debate. It is a harangue, a politically motivated, brilliantly publicized, larcenous attack on progressive ideas. It would be wrong to imply that Guiliani is involved in some kind of conspiracy to rob us of our lives, our health, our honor, and our belongings. It would be wrong because his insults are far beyond the conspiracy stage. Not only that, but he shouldn't pervert the course of justice. That's just plain common sense. Of course, the people who appreciate his expostulations are those who eagerly root up common sense, prominently hol
I guess that's what the plumber downstairs had in mind when trying to unblock a clog with water that shot straight up the common wall pipe and out of my kitchen sink to flood the floor.
Browsing on my DSL line and blowing off the network support line because cogentco seems to be having issues somewhere on the east coast.
To the Verizon tech that was in there working, please put the power cord you took from the running equipment in Cogent's cage back. Grab your coffee and walk to your damn truck and get your own. I'd like this to be done immediately so I can still leave work at 5:00pm EST.
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What happens when you compress something? It becomes more dense. As something becomes more dense it starts to approach the solid. Solid is typically more hard. Granted, it may have taken a scientist with resources to figure out what all the properties and reactions were, but as for "Water gets more solid as it is compressed", DUH.
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