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Title: Webster Green and basic science
Post by: ScubaGuy on June 03, 2010, 12:32:51 PM
Maybe this should be in the posts that stand alone but here's a good on from the 'smart' and well edjumencated DUmmies.


About that BP oil well (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=8473539&mesg_id=8474496)
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Webster Green  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Wed Jun-02-10 11:48 PM
Response to Reply #18
19. Interesting.
   
I thought the water temp down there was just below freezing, like 34 degrees F.

I sure never made it to physics. Math threw me for a loop, and still does. I have no affinity for it whatsoever. It makes me nuts. :crazy:
Title: Re: Webster Green and basic science
Post by: Chris_ on June 03, 2010, 12:34:23 PM
Math is hard! :(

What does WG do for a living, I wonder.
Title: Re: Webster Green and basic science
Post by: jukin on June 03, 2010, 12:52:02 PM
Math is hard! :(

What does WG do for a living, I wonder.

Public school math teacher.
Title: Re: Webster Green and basic science
Post by: Randy on June 03, 2010, 02:30:48 PM
Public school math teacher.

Engineer for BP designing blowout prevention equipment.  :whatever:
Title: Re: Webster Green and basic science
Post by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on June 03, 2010, 03:25:17 PM
Math is hard! :(

What does WG do for a living, I wonder.
Government accountant.
Title: Re: Webster Green and basic science
Post by: zeitgeist on June 03, 2010, 04:09:27 PM
Government accountant. Economist


Fixed :-)
Title: Re: Webster Green and basic science
Post by: zeitgeist on June 03, 2010, 04:25:13 PM
Next time you see a thread where the world's brightest decry their miserable state in the world of employment think about posts like this ( from a different thread but this is as good a place as any to put it).

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jaxx  (1000+ posts)      Thu Jun-03-10 12:33 PM
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53. Any chance of the saw ingniting the oil?
 Inquiring minds want to know.......
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 sweettater (665 posts)      Thu Jun-03-10 12:35 PM
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54. Underwater?
 
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 jaxx  (1000+ posts)      Thu Jun-03-10 12:38 PM
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56. LOL well it makes a lot of dust.
 
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 HughMoran  (1000+ posts)        Thu Jun-03-10 12:51 PM
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60. oil sucked into the blade when spinning
 
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 Statistical  (1000+ posts)      Thu Jun-03-10 12:42 PM
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58. Ignition requires presence of free oxygen. n/t


  HughMoran  (1000+ posts)        Thu Jun-03-10 12:50 PM
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59. Besides the extremely cold water, there is no oxygen down there
 So no.
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 jaxx  (1000+ posts)      Thu Jun-03-10 12:54 PM
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Ok thanks all, I just wondered.
 Science was not my strong suit.   

 

These are the best and brightest BA's and Masters of Ed they walk among us and teach our young.  Worst part about it they are too stooopid to be embarassed.
Title: Re: Webster Green and basic science
Post by: USA4ME on June 03, 2010, 04:32:51 PM
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jaxx
 
Ok thanks all, I just wondered.  Science was not my strong suit.

Oh com'n, give it a try.  Science is not the strong suit of manbearpig or the "scientists" at the East Anglia Climate Research Unit, but that didn't stop them.

.
Title: Re: Webster Green and basic science
Post by: diesel driver on June 03, 2010, 05:31:07 PM
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Webster Green  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Wed Jun-02-10 11:48 PM

Response to Reply #18
19. Interesting.
   
I thought the water temp down there was just below freezing, like 34 degrees F.

Hey, DUmbass!  Water freezes at 32 degrees F.....   :thatsright:

I can see how it is easy for you to confuse your IQ with the freezing point of water....   :loser:
Title: Re: Webster Green and basic science
Post by: Chris_ on June 03, 2010, 05:33:31 PM
Hey, DUmbass!  Water freezes at 32 degrees F.....   :thatsright:

I can see how it is easy for you to confuse your IQ with the freezing point of water....   :loser:

Salt water can stay liquid down to 28°. :p
Title: Re: Webster Green and basic science
Post by: diesel driver on June 03, 2010, 05:44:17 PM
Salt water can stay liquid down to 28°. :p

Cut me a little slack....

It's been 35 years since I've studied high school science....   :-)
Title: Re: Webster Green and basic science
Post by: Chris_ on June 03, 2010, 05:46:07 PM
It's one of those semi-useful facts they teach you in culinary school.  Works pretty well in a beer cooler, too.  I think it's a cup of salt to a gallon of water.  Add lots of ice.
Title: Re: Webster Green and basic science
Post by: Alpha Mare on June 03, 2010, 06:02:38 PM
Math is hard! :(

What does WG do for a living, I wonder.

Not a damned thing.
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Webster Green  (1000+ posts)      Thu Apr-29-10 02:40 AM
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179. Fair enough, however, boring is a very subjective term.
 Cannabis is endlessly fascinating to me. After I got done with serious touring, I spent 15 years in Southern Humboldt County, in the heart of the "Emerald Triangle", doing amazing Cannabis cross breeding and running from ****ing helicopters. Definitely not boring.
 
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8216617#8232280
Title: Re: Webster Green and basic science
Post by: Chris_ on June 03, 2010, 06:09:29 PM
I see... (http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff68/kayaktn/smileys/emot-stoner.gif)

"Cannabis" stopped being fascinating when I noticed that after smoking it all day, all it gave me was a headache.
Title: Re: Webster Green and basic science
Post by: Alpha Mare on June 03, 2010, 06:26:19 PM
I see... (http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff68/kayaktn/smileys/emot-stoner.gif)

"Cannabis" stopped being fascinating when I noticed that after smoking it all day, all it gave me was a headache.

I can't just sit, doing nothing.
Title: Re: Webster Green and basic science
Post by: Attero Dominatus on June 03, 2010, 06:26:53 PM
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Webster Green  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Wed Jun-02-10 11:48 PM
Response to Reply #18
19. Interesting.
   
I thought the water temp down there was just below freezing, like 34 degrees F.

I sure never made it to physics. Math threw me for a loop, and still does. I have no affinity for it whatsoever. It makes me nuts. :crazy:
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Hey DUmbass! Water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit. That would be 0 degrees Celsius, which is the same number as your IQ.  :loser:
Title: Re: Webster Green and basic science
Post by: miskie on June 03, 2010, 07:00:02 PM
Ever notice how similar WG is to GW ?

I know I have......   :-)
Title: Re: Webster Green and basic science
Post by: dutch508 on June 03, 2010, 09:22:32 PM
Hey, DUmbass!  Water freezes at 32 degrees F.....   :thatsright:

I can see how it is easy for you to confuse your IQ with the freezing point of water....   :loser:


Umm....salt water at high pressure isn't going to turn into ice cubes at 32* f, btw.
Title: Re: Webster Green and basic science
Post by: Ree on June 03, 2010, 10:19:10 PM
It's one of those semi-useful facts they teach you in culinary school.  Works pretty well in a beer cooler, too.  I think it's a cup of salt to a gallon of water.  Add lots of ice.
I'll have to remember that...If they ever let me drink beer again
Title: Re: Webster Green and basic science
Post by: Chris_ on June 03, 2010, 10:29:01 PM
It works on Coca Cola, too.
Title: Re: Webster Green and basic science
Post by: diesel driver on June 04, 2010, 01:08:37 AM
It's one of those semi-useful facts they teach you in culinary school.  Works pretty well in a beer cooler, too.  I think it's a cup of salt to a gallon of water.  Add lots of ice.

I should have known that salt water freezes at a lower temperature....

It's how home-made ice cream is done.  Put the ingredients in the churn, fill the tub full of ice and rock salt, and crank until done (or plug it in, for the lazy among us)....
Title: Re: Webster Green and basic science
Post by: zeitgeist on June 04, 2010, 07:33:15 AM
Hey DUmbass! Water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit. That would be 0 degrees Celsius, which is the same number as your IQ.  :loser:

Must have been that tricky equation that threw him.  c= 5/9(F-32) 

One of the first things you did after getting "Hello World"  on a screen  in many Basic courses was to program a Celsius to Fahrenheit conversion application. ( or COBOL or Fortran for that matter ).   Oh wait, dummies are just computer users not programers.  My bad.
Title: Re: Webster Green and basic science
Post by: BlueStateSaint on June 04, 2010, 09:24:56 AM
Must have been that tricky equation that threw him.  c= 5/9(F-32) 

One of the first things you did after getting "Hello World"  on a screen  in many Basic courses was to program a Celsius to Fahrenheit conversion application. ( or COBOL or Fortran for that matter ).   Oh wait, dummies are just computer users not programers.  My bad.

There will be more computer "users" over there, when the Japanese perfect that female "robot."
Title: Re: Webster Green and basic science
Post by: JohnnyReb on June 04, 2010, 09:34:59 AM
Water freezes at a setting of "4" and boils at slightly above "simmer".









A fridge to cool beer bought with foodstamps and a stove to cook off meth.... what else does a DUmmie need to know about tempertures.
Title: Re: Webster Green and basic science
Post by: AllosaursRus on June 04, 2010, 10:55:26 AM
The pressure is such at a mile down that water will never freeze, salted or fresh, don't matter!
Title: Re: Webster Green and basic science
Post by: miskie on June 04, 2010, 05:33:40 PM
The pressure is such at a mile down that water will never freeze, salted or fresh, don't matter!

Agreed, and it never will - because it can't. Water is peculiar when it comes to changing states from liquid to solid - it expands. If there is enough pressure to keep the water from expanding, it will not freeze under any circumstance. -- well, until you get to absolute zero.. but thats another story.
Title: Re: Webster Green and basic science
Post by: JohnnyReb on June 05, 2010, 06:46:56 AM
Agreed, and it never will - because it can't. Water is peculiar when it comes to changing states from liquid to solid - it expands. If there is enough pressure to keep the water from expanding, it will not freeze under any circumstance. -- well, until you get to absolute zero.. but thats another story.

I thought that at absolute zero atoms fall apart and turns to a very fine dust?

....but then, when I was taught that, they were saying we were going into another ice age and we were all going to freeze to death....are we there yet?....are we there yet....are we there yet.
Title: Re: Webster Green and basic science
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on June 05, 2010, 10:02:55 AM
I thought that at absolute zero atoms fall apart and turns to a very fine dust?

....but then, when I was taught that, they were saying we were going into another ice age and we were all going to freeze to death....are we there yet?....are we there yet....are we there yet.

We'll never really know, it's not possible to actually get there, anytime before the final heat death of the entire universe, anyway.
Title: Re: Webster Green and basic science
Post by: Chris_ on June 05, 2010, 11:31:47 AM
I thought that at absolute zero atoms fall apart and turns to a very fine dust?

....but then, when I was taught that, they were saying we were going into another ice age and we were all going to freeze to death....are we there yet?....are we there yet....are we there yet.

Actually, absolute zero is the temperature at which all atomic and subatomic motion ceases.......theoretically at least, instead of collapsing into dust (even dust being matter) , matter at that temperature would (also theoretically) be reabsorbed by the "quantum foam", i.e., residue left over from the interdimensional cataclysm of the formation of the universe.

To an observer, it would simply vanish.......

doc
Title: Re: Webster Green and basic science
Post by: miskie on June 05, 2010, 02:44:05 PM
I thought that at absolute zero atoms fall apart and turns to a very fine dust?

....but then, when I was taught that, they were saying we were going into another ice age and we were all going to freeze to death....are we there yet?....are we there yet....are we there yet.

TVDOC has what is expected to be the right answer to this. Granted, we will never know, as we would cease to be at absolute zero with everything else, so its more of a thought experiment than anything.
Title: Re: Webster Green and basic science
Post by: NHSparky on June 06, 2010, 04:56:38 AM
The pressure is such at a mile down that water will never freeze, salted or fresh, don't matter!

Actually, it will, it's just that the temperature at that depth stays pretty constant (around 35-38 degrees F).

Funny the things you'll find out when you work with the DSRV boys.