Cancer Posted April 23, 2009 Report Share Posted April 23, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Hmm. Flashed on bad pun (based on misspelling) of "muscateer" ... ... someone drunk on muscat all the time. May have to use that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted April 24, 2009 Report Share Posted April 24, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Hmm. Flashed on bad pun (based on misspelling) of "muscateer" ... ... someone drunk on muscat all the time. May have to use that. Maybe all this time we were misunderstanding that song by Captain And Tennille. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted April 24, 2009 Report Share Posted April 24, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Between Redmon and Cupertino... I'm not sure who to target first. I need a second warhead so I don't have to choose. The second one is only 5 pts more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 24, 2009 Report Share Posted April 24, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Between Redmon and Cupertino... I'm not sure who to target first. I need a second warhead so I don't have to choose. Redmond & Mountain View? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted April 24, 2009 Report Share Posted April 24, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Redmond & Mountain View? You hit Cupertino, Mountain View is pretty well toast. I guess depending on the yield. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 24, 2009 Report Share Posted April 24, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER You hit Cupertino' date=' Mountain View is pretty well toast. I guess depending on the yield.[/quote'] No no no, not Cupertino, just a certain area in Mountain View. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 24, 2009 Report Share Posted April 24, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I managed to find a copy of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies in a brick-and-mortar store yesterday. Bought it & took it home for my wife. I'll wait for her comments before I try it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost-angel Posted April 24, 2009 Report Share Posted April 24, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER You hit Cupertino' date=' Mountain View is pretty well toast. I guess depending on the yield.[/quote'] The words "How much we got?" Come to mind... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 24, 2009 Report Share Posted April 24, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Hee hee. They don't know it, but I have assigned to students to estimate the electrical capacitance of the Ark of the Covenant. Cue up the movie music. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 24, 2009 Report Share Posted April 24, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER my answer: infinite. What do I win as my prize, for guess correctly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted April 25, 2009 Report Share Posted April 25, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER my answer: infinite. What do I win as my prize, for guess correctly? You get to touch your fully-charged Ark. I'd dare you to touch it, but that would be an Arc Ark Lark. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 27, 2009 Report Share Posted April 27, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Looks like the ark was 1.3 by 0.8 by 0.8 meters in size. No real data on the wall thickness, but if we posit 10 cm or so and it's dry wood (which has a dielectric constant of about 2.2) with electrical conductor lining the inside and covering the outside, then it can be modeled as six parallel-plate capacitors (four 1.3 by 0.8, two 0.8 square) in parallel. 10 cm plate separation means the capacitance won't be that high. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 27, 2009 Report Share Posted April 27, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Mmmm, plate . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 28, 2009 Report Share Posted April 28, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Looks like the ark was 1.3 by 0.8 by 0.8 meters in size. No real data on the wall thickness' date=' but if we posit 10 cm or so and it's dry wood (which has a dielectric constant of about 2.2) with electrical conductor lining the inside and covering the outside, then it can be modeled as six parallel-plate capacitors (four 1.3 by 0.8, two 0.8 square) in parallel. 10 cm plate separation means the capacitance won't be that high.[/quote'] You forget that it is channelling spiritual energy. Until science can successfully measure that, my answer stands. Its energy is infinite. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 28, 2009 Report Share Posted April 28, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER And you chose not to read the question as stated. I specifically said "electrical capacitance", limiting the calculation in the classical reductionist way to something that is calculable. I don't contest your interpretation; I just point out that wasn't what I asked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 28, 2009 Report Share Posted April 28, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER And you chose not to read the question as stated. I specifically said "electrical capacitance"' date=' limiting the calculation in the classical reductionist way to something that is calculable. I don't contest your interpretation; I just point out that wasn't what I asked.[/quote'] true. Upon reflection, perhaps a bit of both, that is drawing the spiritual energy from 'g-d' to electrical energy would be infinite. Or the Ark is a multi-dimension electrical generator. You know, now I am curious about your question. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 29, 2009 Report Share Posted April 29, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER true. Upon reflection, perhaps a bit of both, that is drawing the spiritual energy from 'g-d' to electrical energy would be infinite. Or the Ark is a multi-dimension electrical generator. You know, now I am curious about your question. computing capacitance Treat the Ark like six capacitors connected in parallel (so the individual sides simply add). Four of the sides are 1.3m by 0.8m, the other two are 0.8m square. That sets the area of the plates. The thickness of the wood isn't mentioned in the original source , so I use a reasonably robust thickness of 10 cm. That sets the plate separation. And dry wood has a k of around 2.2, though there's substantial variation with moisture content of the wood. FWIW, I didn't tell the students on the assignment that's what they were computing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 29, 2009 Report Share Posted April 29, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Sneaky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 29, 2009 Report Share Posted April 29, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER The students were all shocked last year when they asked about one problem I'd assigned and I casually referred to it as the "Manhattan Project" problem as I started up the explanation of how to do it. I ended up in a ten-minute digression about why it was key to building the first atomic bombs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 29, 2009 Report Share Posted April 29, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Oho? What was it about? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 29, 2009 Report Share Posted April 29, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER The difference in mean speed of the gas molecules for the different isotopic forms of UF6. U-235 hexafluoride moves slightly faster since it's lighter than U-238 hexafluoride, so it passes through filters more readily. After a couple thousand filter stages you have it sufficiently enriched that you can convert the UF6 back to uranium metal that is enriched enough for use in a weapon. Thankfully, fluorine has only one stable isotope so there's no confusion with molecular mass from that direction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 29, 2009 Report Share Posted April 29, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Yay to that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER The students were all shocked last year when they asked about one problem I'd assigned and I casually referred to it as the "Manhattan Project" problem as I started up the explanation of how to do it. I ended up in a ten-minute digression about why it was key to building the first atomic bombs. Just lucky it wasn't the Montauk Project. or the Philadelphia Experiment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Never heard of those before. I've seen other bits of comparable weirdness, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER The Roanoke Experiment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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