Re: OT: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 08:37:33PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 20:29 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 07:56:39PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 19:27 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> >
> > > Okay then, what is more bracing:
> > >
> > > -40 degrees Celsius
> > > -40 degrees Fahrenheit
> > >
> > > Come on... I am waiting!
> >
> > They're the same, although "Celsius" sounds more like the sound ice
> > crystals make when they hit your goggles.
> >
> > Any colder, and at least no one can complain that the mercury is
> > falling. Why? (come on.. I'm waiting) :)
>
Mecury freezes at about -40 which is why most thermometers (even
non-mercury ones) don't go any lower. It takes a special thermometer.
Don't forget about adding windchill. The scientific method requires
dew-point and stuff, but basically double the wind speed in Km/h and
subtract it from the temperature in C. Normal wind across an open plain
is 20 Km/h unless there's a storm. So -40 C easily gets to -80 with
windchill.
The good news: at some point down there, all viruses are destroyed.
Put a closed community in a cold place and there are no colds or flu.
I've yet to join a 300 club: sauna at 200 C, run outside buck naked at
-100 C. Read the book IceBound for a description (it takes place at the
_south_ pole).
I'd love to live in the high arctic if the cost of living wasn't so
high.
Doug.
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