On Dec 23, 2008, at 4:17 PM, dsummersmi...@comcast.net wrote:
>> I'm sure there's chaos involved in that somehow. :)
>
> Why? It sounds like a pretty clear pattern to me, not chaos.
Unless the fluid flow is completely laminar (which is extremely rare
in nature), there's turbulence involved, w
>I'm sure there's chaos involved in that somehow. :)
Why? It sounds like a pretty clear pattern to me, not chaos.
>My guess is that if you were able to sample the wind speed at that
>point, you'd see something rather fractal, probably a 1/f
>distribution. The periodicity probably is
>
> > Yesterday was the Summer solstice here in the South Pacific and the day
> > before was cold - only 6 degrees celsius.
> >
> > Global warming harumph.
>
>The fact that it is colder in some places than normal may be a sign of
>global warming. I know that some predictions say that global wa
As I understand it, it's not that it carries odors better, it's that
your nose is more sensitive to odors carried in moist air.
(Mentioning this because I do at one point remember a gas
chromatograph attachment with a nose shield connected directly to the
column outlet, with a fan to circula
Why does moister air carry odors better?
(This question occurred to me as I was driving through the fairly thin but
thicker-in-spots fog we have at the moment and in a thicker part of it,
got the unmistakable odor of Cowfield. And when you've had gym class
downwind of a dairy farm, you can't m
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008, Gary Nunn wrote:
>
> Julia wrote...
>
>> seriously, there are rabbits in the area, and I'm vaguely
>> phobic about rabbits
>
>
> Have you ever seen the B movie "Night of the Lepus"? Quite possibly the
> worst movie of all-time.
No, and I think I'll skip that one.
On Dec 23, 2008, at 12:34 AM, Doug Pensinger wrote:
> Speaking of wind, I ran across an odd phenomenon while backpacking in
> the Sierra Nevada something close to twenty years ago. The wind
> actually came in waves; it would start out at a low velocity and
> continue to build over a period of so