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[Original Message]
From: Marcus G. Daniels mar...@snoutfarm.com
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
friam@redfish.com
Date: 11/27/2009 11:21:15 PM
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Hot Air, and Compressibilty
plissa
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- Original Message -
From: Robert Holmes
To: nickthomp...@earthlink.net;The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee
Group
Sent: 11/28/2009 8:39:03 AM
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Hot Air, and Compressibilty
NASA have got a Beginner's Guide to Aeronautics that's worth looking at. It's
Hot Air, and Compressibility
A’course air is compressible, and so is water. Any kid who fools around with
bicycle pump or a shock absorber, and believes what he sees, rather than what
he is told, can feel the compressibility. But, but, but, at modest speeds
free air will NOT
plissa...@comcast.net wrote:
You have to sweep your hand at a speed comparable to that of sound
(about 330 m/s here on earth) in order stop the air from getting away
and to achieve any compression.
Ok, so in one of the articles mentioned,
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/40993
://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
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[Original Message]
From: Marcus G. Daniels mar...@snoutfarm.com
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group friam@redfish.com
Date: 11/27/2009 11:21:15 PM
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Hot Air
