Let's call it interesting questions it never occurred to me to ask, Nick. Pamela
On Jun 12, 2012, at 10:44 AM, Nicholas Thompson wrote: > So, somebody asked me, in my role as a weather nerd, how come the nitrogen in > the atmosphere doesn’t all fall to the bottom on still nights and suffocate > us all. I asked the question of > stupid-answers-to-stupid-questions-asked-by-stupid-people.com and THEY said, > well, there’s just too much going on. N molecules and the O molecules are > just too busy, what with convection and windcurrents, and all, to separate, > even on still nights. Now, that business doesn’t prevent cold molecules of > Nitrogen and Oxygen to separate from warm ones, or wet ones (not sure what > that means) to separate from dry ones. I was hoping that somebody on FRIAM > could give some sort of a clue what kind of a mixture AIR is? It is suddenly > seeming kinda special. > > > > Nicholas S. Thompson > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology > Clark University > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > http://www.cusf.org > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org "Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language." Henry James
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