Except that a pint is approximately 1.043 pounds, assuming you're talking about a substance with a specific gravity of 1.00. A liter is 1.00 kg (also assuming 1.00 sg).
Oh, what sad times are these when passing ruffians can say `ni' at will to old ladies. There is a pestilence upon this land, nothing is sacred. Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.
Not necessarily. Cooling towers typically have a 10-15F approach to the *WET BULB* temperature, not the dry bulb. Cooling towers don't care much at all about the dry bulb, they are only interested in the WET BULB. (Yes, somehow they KNOW. And they HATE it when they are anthropomorphised.)
Of course, since this is Alabama, it's likely that it's humid enough during the summer that the wet bulb is still pretty damn high.
I used to design combined-cycle power plants, so I know a little about condensers and cooling towers.
Well, all the missile would need is to fire an anti-antimissile-missile.
(yes, I know this proposed system is a laser thingie -- a missile would first need an antimissile missile to fire its anti antimissile missile at and a laser would only be good at popping a massive Jiffy-pop).
I am a homebrewer. I measure beer in gallons. 5 gallons per batch. (actually, 5.5 gal per batch, but some gets lost in transfers and ends up being a full 5-gallon keg per batch).
These are US gallons, mind you. 5 gallons is 18927058920000 picoliters, for you metric folk.
On a different note, I take it that you're religious, and that you believe that anyone who does not believe in a god cannot be moral? So in other words, the only reason that you personally do not rape and kill your mother is that the invisible sky daddy that you believe in says not to?
Yes, I understand that I'm making something of a straw man here, but I personally do not rape and kill my mother, yet I do not believe in any gods. I believe that raping and killing one's mother is wrong, because if everybody raped and killed their mother, society would be... rather different. Yet you don't rape and kill your mother because the god that you believe in threatens you with eternal pain and you are scared of him.
You are totally leaving out the atmospheric retention time of the greenhouse gases. Yes, water vapor is a very important factor, but its concentration in the atmosphere is relatively constant (unlike CO2 which is rising quite precipitously), and humans have very little control over the hydrologic cycle. Water has an atmospheric retention time of a few days or weeks (yes, I'm pulling that number right out of my butt). CO2 has an atmospheric retention time of centuries (again, pulling that number out of my butt).
Humans DO have some control over CO2 emissions, and CO2 sticks around in the atmosphere for a long time, so it stands to reason that if global warming is something to be worried about (which I think it is), that humans should seek to control those aspects of the global climate system that we can (i.e. CO2 emissions, methane emissions), and ignore those aspects that we cannot control (i.e. water vapor).
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Seattle is mostly safe from a major Rainier eruption. Some of the southeastern suburbs/exurbs are. For example, Orting is totally doomed. Property values there are stagnant. Puyallup and Tacoma won't fare too well either. But Seattle proper is not in danger of lava or lahar.
Luckily, I live near the top of a big hill near Woodinville... I will have no problem from Rainier (except ash, I guess).
We do have the occasional earthquake. I was here for the one in (2000?)... it was actually pretty fun in my opinion. I was on the second floor of my office building, I looked out the window, and I swear that I saw a wave ripple across the ground. But I'd have to say that the earthquake danger has got to be far lower than the Bay Area.
Traffic sucks in general, especially 520. But it's not as bad as Houston near the Galleria, for one.
And yes, it rains ALL THE TIME, year-round. Everybody here hates it, nobody should ever want to move here, it's so depressing, and there are no hot chicks anywhere.:) Please stay away! It's for your own good!:)
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Except that a pint is approximately 1.043 pounds, assuming you're talking about a substance with a specific gravity of 1.00. A liter is 1.00 kg (also assuming 1.00 sg).
Oh, what sad times are these when passing ruffians can say `ni' at will to old ladies. There is a pestilence upon this land, nothing is sacred. Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.
Not necessarily. Cooling towers typically have a 10-15F approach to the *WET BULB* temperature, not the dry bulb. Cooling towers don't care much at all about the dry bulb, they are only interested in the WET BULB. (Yes, somehow they KNOW. And they HATE it when they are anthropomorphised.)
Of course, since this is Alabama, it's likely that it's humid enough during the summer that the wet bulb is still pretty damn high.
I used to design combined-cycle power plants, so I know a little about condensers and cooling towers.
I had the lasagna.
And don't call me Shirley!
This word, credulous. I do not think it means what you think it means.
"Cooked corn" is a more typical description. I've never heard of it described as cooked seafood.
Or you could use the power from the flowing sewage to power the sewage lift pumps that lead to the sewage treatment plant!
oh wait...
Well, all the missile would need is to fire an anti-antimissile-missile.
(yes, I know this proposed system is a laser thingie -- a missile would first need an antimissile missile to fire its anti antimissile missile at and a laser would only be good at popping a massive Jiffy-pop).
I am a homebrewer. I measure beer in gallons. 5 gallons per batch. (actually, 5.5 gal per batch, but some gets lost in transfers and ends up being a full 5-gallon keg per batch).
These are US gallons, mind you. 5 gallons is 18927058920000 picoliters, for you metric folk.
Your cousin's grandmother? Wouldn't that be the same as your grandmother?
Kant's Categorical Imperative does a pretty good job of atheistically summing up an ethical system.
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"Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it would become a universal law."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorical_imperati
On a different note, I take it that you're religious, and that you believe that anyone who does not believe in a god cannot be moral? So in other words, the only reason that you personally do not rape and kill your mother is that the invisible sky daddy that you believe in says not to?
Yes, I understand that I'm making something of a straw man here, but I personally do not rape and kill my mother, yet I do not believe in any gods. I believe that raping and killing one's mother is wrong, because if everybody raped and killed their mother, society would be... rather different. Yet you don't rape and kill your mother because the god that you believe in threatens you with eternal pain and you are scared of him.
Which one of us is "moral"?
That's aluminium, you insensitive clod!
You're totally right! We non-smokers are free to quit breathing at any point, that would completely solve the problem for those non-selfish smokers!
This one goes to 12.
I'm an ENCHANTER, you insensitive clod!
I want my 0.002 dollars!
I *AM* an overlord, you insensitive clod!
I'm an anarchist, you insensitive clod!
(not really)
Danica McKellar, AKA "Winnie Cooper" on "The Wonder Years." Everyone's favorite girl next door is also a math nerd.
http://www.danicamckellar.com/
She published a math proof, linked on her website, titled:
"Percolation and Gibbs states multiplicity for ferromagnetic
Ashkin-Teller models on Z2"
(no, I have no idea what that is, I'm an engineer not a mathematician).
Looks like a YEAR AND a day to me.
Not that that makes it better, of course.
You are totally leaving out the atmospheric retention time of the greenhouse gases. Yes, water vapor is a very important factor, but its concentration in the atmosphere is relatively constant (unlike CO2 which is rising quite precipitously), and humans have very little control over the hydrologic cycle. Water has an atmospheric retention time of a few days or weeks (yes, I'm pulling that number right out of my butt). CO2 has an atmospheric retention time of centuries (again, pulling that number out of my butt).
Humans DO have some control over CO2 emissions, and CO2 sticks around in the atmosphere for a long time, so it stands to reason that if global warming is something to be worried about (which I think it is), that humans should seek to control those aspects of the global climate system that we can (i.e. CO2 emissions, methane emissions), and ignore those aspects that we cannot control (i.e. water vapor).
Seattle is mostly safe from a major Rainier eruption. Some of the southeastern suburbs/exurbs are. For example, Orting is totally doomed. Property values there are stagnant. Puyallup and Tacoma won't fare too well either. But Seattle proper is not in danger of lava or lahar.
:) Please stay away! It's for your own good! :)
Luckily, I live near the top of a big hill near Woodinville... I will have no problem from Rainier (except ash, I guess).
We do have the occasional earthquake. I was here for the one in (2000?)... it was actually pretty fun in my opinion. I was on the second floor of my office building, I looked out the window, and I swear that I saw a wave ripple across the ground. But I'd have to say that the earthquake danger has got to be far lower than the Bay Area.
Traffic sucks in general, especially 520. But it's not as bad as Houston near the Galleria, for one.
And yes, it rains ALL THE TIME, year-round. Everybody here hates it, nobody should ever want to move here, it's so depressing, and there are no hot chicks anywhere.
PC Load Letter?
What the fuck does that mean?
Homebrew, baby. Homebrew.
Well, assuming $30/batch, 5 gal/batch, that comes out to $0.56 per beer. Not counting the cost of equipment.
OK, I'll shut up now.
HOMEBREW!
"Launch codes? What do those do?"
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