does water defy gravity?

[Doramius]

I'm pretty sure it is directly related to why mirrors reverse left and right, but not up and down.

Oh great! Now I'll be up another week trying to figure this one out!

Don't beat yourself up too hard. Remember your little fiasco on trying to figure out why north & south had poles and east & west didn't? The psych ward isn't prepared to take you in again so soon.

[ZAPPER]

Ok Ok Ok Ok I got it I got I got it! Heres one that just bugs me.


Seven days in a week, right? Yep 7 days.

Ok, 52 weeks in a year, right? 52 huh?

So, Ok, take 7X52 and you get what? Go on,do the math!

It's only 364! I mean, where is the other day! What is this?

Ok Ok Ok wait! it gets trickier.

Ok my meds cost $400 a month. Ok?

I give them $100 a week to pay for my meds, and I take them, I do I do I do, well not all at once, well sometimes, but not always.

So I pay like $100 every Friday because there are four weeks in a month and that makes $400 for a month right?

WRONG BUCKAROO!!!! So wrong!

I can see the calender at the nurses station and there are FIVE FRIDAYS in December 2005! Count them!

Ok Ok Ok So I have rubber wallpaper in my room, Big deal, I can still count! I am crazy, not stupid!

[doppletwo]

Why do they call it taking a dump, if you are actually leaving it(insert question mark here, I am at work and my keyboard is set to Italian, so I canàt find the question mark)

[Doramius]

Ok Ok Ok Ok I got it I got I got it! Heres one that just bugs me.


Seven days in a week, right? Yep 7 days.

Ok, 52 weeks in a year, right? 52 huh?

So, Ok, take 7X52 and you get what? Go on,do the math!

It's only 364! I mean, where is the other day! What is this?

Ok Ok Ok wait! it gets trickier.

Ok my meds cost $400 a month. Ok?

I give them $100 a week to pay for my meds, and I take them, I do I do I do, well not all at once, well sometimes, but not always.

So I pay like $100 every Friday because there are four weeks in a month and that makes $400 for a month right?

WRONG BUCKAROO!!!! So wrong!

I can see the calender at the nurses station and there are FIVE FRIDAYS in December 2005! Count them!

Ok Ok Ok So I have rubber wallpaper in my room, Big deal, I can still count! I am crazy, not stupid!

That's why there are leap years and skip years.

However, there is one question I always wanted to know. I visited up in Alaska with some college buddies back in 1998, I can't tell you for sure how far north we were, but we rode on huge commercial snowmobiles for about 3 1/2 hours east-northeast of Denali State Park. This is mid November. There are some snow/ice caves. Now the temperature inside the snow/ice caves is about 48-52 degrees farenheit. But isn't the ice & snow at a temperature less an 32 degrees. Why weren't the caves melting. We built a packed ice fort and still could keep the temperature inside at about 58 degrees without any heating unit and the temperature would level out around the low to mid 50s. Why didn't the thing melt on it's own?

[ZAPPER]

I don't get it either. I have slept in my own snow caves before and had a puddle of water in the newspaper insulation that I was useing under my sleeping bag and frost on top of the sleepling bag. I thought that heat rises?

[gll99]

The answer to the ice cave is that the packed snow above and around the cave is refreezing any miniscule amount of melt as it absorbs the heat in the air. Air is not the best conductor so this happens slowly. The air in the center of the cave may be 50F but right near the snow cave walls it is near 32F.

Under you there is not as much snow to absorb the heat so the thin snow layer melts slowly with your body heat. This happens slowly because some of the warmth is being absorbed by the cave floor

[Doramius]

Dammit, and I could've been sleeping here. I wonder if they have heated pools?

http://www.scantours.com/ice_hotel.htm