Right, basically a siphon can only work if the pressure at the high point is above the vapor pressure of the liquid. If you pump a vacuum, then your water will vaporize which will kill your siphon. Gravity has nothing to do with it aside from being the driving force behind atmospheric pressure in the first place. As long as you have an unbroken liquid in your siphon, atmospheric pressure is what drives it. If "tension" between water bonds were what drove it, it would behave like a chain fountain and you wouldn't need a closed pipe to continue the siphon.
Where they hell are you getting 5%API right now in a retirement disbursing account? At retirement you are looking at money markets for most of your assets and you'll be lucky to get 2%. A million isn't enough to retire on for most people anymore. Millionaires aren't the 1%, they are the majority of the middle class.
Sadly it doesn't stop with death too. Many more billions are wasted in the funeral racket. In my family my grandmother is a very simple and humble woman, but her darn kids keep insisting on fancy expensive gravestones and caskets in her end of life planning. It's like, you realize we are just going to throw dirt on this right? And she won't be "comfortable" regardless of how many pillows are in there.
Really? My Brother printer is a pain in the ass. When it works over the network it still has stupid moments like no printing in greyscale because the yellow ink is "empty". I have yet to find a non-enterprise printer that I didn't hate.
Is that welder working in an oil field? There are a HUGE number of extra qualifications and certifications you need to be a pipe or tank welder. I speak from project management experience that these guys get paid very well and it is hard to find enough good ones.
Lost Coast is a graphics demo. Unless you are benchmarking your card or want to play a maybe 15 minute playable level, it's pretty useless. Calling it a game is sort of a lie.
Astrophysicists my ass... Geologists have this covered! From "Static and dynamic angles of repose in loose granular materials under reduced gravity" http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/...
Until now it has been assumed that the angles of repose are independent of gravitational acceleration. The objective of this work is to experimentally determine whether the angles of repose depend on gravity. In 33 parabolic flights in a well-controlled research aircraft we recorded avalanching granular materials in rotating drums at effective gravitational accelerations of 0.1, 0.38 and 1.0 times the terrestrial value. The granular materials varied in particle size and rounding and had air or water as interstitial fluid. Materials with angular grains had time-averaged angles of about 40 degrees and with rounded grains about 25 degrees for all effective gravitational accelerations, except the finest glass beads in air, which was explained by static electricity. For all materials, the static angle of repose increases about 5 degrees with reduced gravity, whereas the dynamic angle decreases with about 10 degrees. Consequently, the avalanche size increases with reduced gravity.
Considering I spend around $2k per year at Amazon (my wife spends a bit less), that's money in the bank as far as I am concerned. Especially with Prime shipping there are two simple questions: "Do I need it in less than 2 days?" and "Is it cheaper on Amazon?"
In some cases, it can pay off. I ended up getting around ~$800 back from the feds this year and through a deal on Amazon, I got 10% bonus by getting the refund back in Amazon gift credit. That's a free 80 bucks, well better than any tiny interest rate I could have gotten in a savings account. When the interest rate you can get is higher than the rate of inflation, you might have a point...
I work in the oil/gas industry, and the rule is you are flying economy unless the flight is over 8 hours. We have to negotiate with supervisors to spend extra money to take a direct flight instead of wasting hours on connections and layovers...
Except that most "subsidies" that oil companies supposedly get are subsidies for OTHER people that happen to benefit oil companies. Also a lot of the remaining "subsidies" are tax credits that lots of other industries get for manufacturing.
I'm just saying you wouldn't need to burrow the habitat under the ice to get the radiation shielding from ice... Just like Inuits don't need to dig a hole in the snow to get the insulation from it.
Right, there is sexism in college sports, but it's not in the massive amounts of money pumped into men's football and basketball. The sexism is why people are willing to pay huge amounts of money to see men play football and basketball, but not women.
Well governed? Did you watch the show? Starfleet command and the general Federation council decisions being total stupidity are the basis for several episodes and even entire arching plotlines in the series. It's especially true in DS9 where government idiocy goes to a whole new level.
Spectacular radiation shield? You mean a lot of water? If we are melting water at the surface, it might be feasible to melt water, pump it over the habitat, and allow it to form an ice radiation shield over the habitat. Think like a big radiation blocking igloo... All it takes it a lot of energy, but if we get fusion figured out, you'll have all the fuel you need on Europa!
Exactly. All these people who think more spending will solve a debt crisis are crazy. You can't "fix" an economy that is undergoing a correction after distorted market signals (low interest rates, high debts) by lowering interest rates even further and taking on more debt. Reinflating the bubble just sets up another bust.
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Mod Anon Informative... Siphoning works with all liquids within their vapor pressure limits regardless of surface tension or cohesion properties.
Right, basically a siphon can only work if the pressure at the high point is above the vapor pressure of the liquid. If you pump a vacuum, then your water will vaporize which will kill your siphon. Gravity has nothing to do with it aside from being the driving force behind atmospheric pressure in the first place. As long as you have an unbroken liquid in your siphon, atmospheric pressure is what drives it. If "tension" between water bonds were what drove it, it would behave like a chain fountain and you wouldn't need a closed pipe to continue the siphon.
Where they hell are you getting 5%API right now in a retirement disbursing account? At retirement you are looking at money markets for most of your assets and you'll be lucky to get 2%. A million isn't enough to retire on for most people anymore. Millionaires aren't the 1%, they are the majority of the middle class.
Sadly it doesn't stop with death too. Many more billions are wasted in the funeral racket. In my family my grandmother is a very simple and humble woman, but her darn kids keep insisting on fancy expensive gravestones and caskets in her end of life planning. It's like, you realize we are just going to throw dirt on this right? And she won't be "comfortable" regardless of how many pillows are in there.
It also wouldn't come with the necessary cables to actually hook it up to anything.
Really? My Brother printer is a pain in the ass. When it works over the network it still has stupid moments like no printing in greyscale because the yellow ink is "empty". I have yet to find a non-enterprise printer that I didn't hate.
Yeah, but you have to get your junk all goopy...
If you need a warning that goatse is not work friendly, you shouldn't be on the internet. And if you are, you deserve what you get.
Is that welder working in an oil field? There are a HUGE number of extra qualifications and certifications you need to be a pipe or tank welder. I speak from project management experience that these guys get paid very well and it is hard to find enough good ones.
Lost Coast is a graphics demo. Unless you are benchmarking your card or want to play a maybe 15 minute playable level, it's pretty useless. Calling it a game is sort of a lie.
Astrophysicists my ass... Geologists have this covered! From "Static and dynamic angles of repose in loose granular materials under reduced gravity"
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/...
Until now it has been assumed that the angles of repose are independent of gravitational acceleration. The objective of this work is to experimentally determine whether the angles of repose depend on gravity. In 33 parabolic flights in a well-controlled research aircraft we recorded avalanching granular materials in rotating drums at effective gravitational accelerations of 0.1, 0.38 and 1.0 times the terrestrial value. The granular materials varied in particle size and rounding and had air or water as interstitial fluid. Materials with angular grains had time-averaged angles of about 40 degrees and with rounded grains about 25 degrees for all effective gravitational accelerations, except the finest glass beads in air, which was explained by static electricity. For all materials, the static angle of repose increases about 5 degrees with reduced gravity, whereas the dynamic angle decreases with about 10 degrees. Consequently, the avalanche size increases with reduced gravity.
Considering I spend around $2k per year at Amazon (my wife spends a bit less), that's money in the bank as far as I am concerned. Especially with Prime shipping there are two simple questions: "Do I need it in less than 2 days?" and "Is it cheaper on Amazon?"
In some cases, it can pay off. I ended up getting around ~$800 back from the feds this year and through a deal on Amazon, I got 10% bonus by getting the refund back in Amazon gift credit. That's a free 80 bucks, well better than any tiny interest rate I could have gotten in a savings account. When the interest rate you can get is higher than the rate of inflation, you might have a point...
It doesn't do you any good if you don't itemize your deductions though.
I work in the oil/gas industry, and the rule is you are flying economy unless the flight is over 8 hours. We have to negotiate with supervisors to spend extra money to take a direct flight instead of wasting hours on connections and layovers...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/en...
Except that most "subsidies" that oil companies supposedly get are subsidies for OTHER people that happen to benefit oil companies. Also a lot of the remaining "subsidies" are tax credits that lots of other industries get for manufacturing.
I'm just saying you wouldn't need to burrow the habitat under the ice to get the radiation shielding from ice... Just like Inuits don't need to dig a hole in the snow to get the insulation from it.
Right, there is sexism in college sports, but it's not in the massive amounts of money pumped into men's football and basketball. The sexism is why people are willing to pay huge amounts of money to see men play football and basketball, but not women.
While this is generally true, sane people sometimes need to speak up. For every loud Hitler, there is a loud Martin Luther King Jr.
Well governed? Did you watch the show? Starfleet command and the general Federation council decisions being total stupidity are the basis for several episodes and even entire arching plotlines in the series. It's especially true in DS9 where government idiocy goes to a whole new level.
Spectacular radiation shield? You mean a lot of water? If we are melting water at the surface, it might be feasible to melt water, pump it over the habitat, and allow it to form an ice radiation shield over the habitat. Think like a big radiation blocking igloo... All it takes it a lot of energy, but if we get fusion figured out, you'll have all the fuel you need on Europa!
It's so much easier to tax visitors and tourists since they don't get to vote on the tax...
Yes, those damn Canadians! http://pics.imcdb.org/0is442/o...
Which will drive the customers away first? Smelly bathrooms or $5 hamburgers? There is no such thing as a free lunch...
Exactly. All these people who think more spending will solve a debt crisis are crazy. You can't "fix" an economy that is undergoing a correction after distorted market signals (low interest rates, high debts) by lowering interest rates even further and taking on more debt. Reinflating the bubble just sets up another bust.