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
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.
Julia
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
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
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 warming will
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 a
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,
