I think it's about time to set about raising Polly Water from the dead, a tad more difficult than Saving Private Ryan but one more suited to my temperament and capacities. 8-)
Before someone parrots Martha and saith, "by this time she stinketh, for she is now of four decades" I would point out that it will be all the more of a challenge then to bring her back to life. If, as I suspect, polywater is an alias for waterfuel then she might even beat cold fusion to the punch as a limitless source of energy. Now that would be nice, wouldn't it. 8-) Starting with Wiki I retrieved a rather perceptive comment on the article from..... "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Polywater"; .....which reads as follows. ================================================= Inconsistency ------------------------------------------------- There seems to be an inconsistency in the article. At the beginning, the properties of the hypothetical substance are said to include a "freezing point of -40 °C or lower, a boiling point of 150 °C or greater". Later, it is said that sweat was found to have the same properties, and that "when subjected to chemical analysis, samples of polywater were invariably contaminated with other substances (explaining the changes in melting and boiling points)". I don't know what sort of contaminations could cause such enormous changes in the freezing point and boiling point, but I'm pretty sure that a) sweat doesn't have these properties and that b) if some contamination were indeed able to produce such properties, it wouldn't take sophisticated chemical analysis to see that the water was contaminated. ================================================= He has quite a point, has he not. 8-) But that's enough for one post. Cheers, Frank
