-------- In message <[email protected]>, "Jonathan E. Hardis" writes:
>That box of Wheaties that is labelled 'Net Weight 10 oz' would >correctly weigh 10 oz everywhere on Earth, on the Moon, and on the ISS. It does not. For several reasons, but mainly because the enclosed air changes means that the bouyancy depends on air-pressure and thus altitude. That goes for anything which isn't enclosed by a rigid container with neglible elasticity in the range of relevant air-pressures. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
