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I am shrinking too, lost over an inch and 20# in weight but maybe gravity is less here?
All my hair stays up top, lots of it ;-}
I think there was an error a long time ago and nobody corrected it and now we're stuck with it. On my keyboard B and V are next to each other.
I think somebody meant to type graBity, and hit the V instead, and it was copied everywhere.
I think somebody meant to type graBity, and hit the V instead, and it was copied everywhere.
Its relative to how tall the person is with that logic.
Please don't forget at the earth poles as opposed to the equator objects weigh 0.5% more due to greater distance (Equator Bulge) from center of the earth.
MT
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_of_Earth
There equator does have that and also greater distance from earths center, both combined.
Mentioned in the link above, it seems at great elevation the thinner air mean less buoyancy and that makes things heavier, but it is swamped out by the spinning and the greater distance from earths center gravity being less.
Other that I saw in link above, I may have not have though of really about weightlessness in orbit, like the space station. It is not due to the distance from the center of the earth, but from the free fall of orbit path. They mention at space station height there is still 90% the pull of gravity that would be on the earths surface.
I cut my oranges pole to pole as they are easier to eat that way!
MT
There equator does have that and also greater distance from earths center, both combined.
Mentioned in the link above, it seems at great elevation the thinner air mean less buoyancy and that makes things heavier, but it is swamped out by the spinning and the greater distance from earths center gravity being less.
Other that I saw in link above, I may have not have though of really about weightlessness in orbit, like the space station. It is not due to the distance from the center of the earth, but from the free fall of orbit path. They mention at space station height there is still 90% the pull of gravity that would be on the earths surface.
I cut my oranges pole to pole as they are easier to eat that way!
MT
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Never being a fan of that group I found that funny because that's what I always called them. Saturday Morning cartoon music aimed at an audience of 12 year olds.
Tom
Tom
Have you ever noticed that the Academy Awards statue looks a lot like Gort; the robot from 'The Day the Earth Stood Still?
Tom
Tom
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This will separate the old guys from the others. Who remembers lighting fireworks with 'Punc'. Not sure of the spelling, maybe 'punk' but whatever, it was a bamboo stick with a coating that burned and let you light the fuse of firecrackers or other fireworks without using a lighter or a burning cigarette.
Funny thing is when I was older and stationed in Vietnam and Thailand I used to see Buddhist monks and others placing the same burning sticks at temples. They were called 'Jos sticks' but they looked and smelled the same as what we used to use as kids to light firecrackers.
Along the same line, who remembers 'Incense burners'. They were usually little brass or porcelain dishes that you put a lump of a wood-like item in, light it and it would give off a pleasant smelling smoke. My Dad hated them but my Mom was always burning them in our house. Odd, but they too smelled about the same as 'Jos Sticks'.
Tom
Funny thing is when I was older and stationed in Vietnam and Thailand I used to see Buddhist monks and others placing the same burning sticks at temples. They were called 'Jos sticks' but they looked and smelled the same as what we used to use as kids to light firecrackers.
Along the same line, who remembers 'Incense burners'. They were usually little brass or porcelain dishes that you put a lump of a wood-like item in, light it and it would give off a pleasant smelling smoke. My Dad hated them but my Mom was always burning them in our house. Odd, but they too smelled about the same as 'Jos Sticks'.
Tom
Tom,
You've hit a soft spot in my youth. So much of it involved fireworks and firecrackers in particular. Punks (the way we spelled it) were 3 for five cents and one would last for hours.
I googled them and they said it is a piece of bamboo covered in dried manure or sawdust.
Dry, rotten wood was always called punk by the old timers when I was growing up. When it was lit it would smoulder for hours and as long as it had source of oxygen it would burn as long as there was material to burn.
We used small dried tree roots and saved the nickle for fireworks.
Incense burners. My mother and my English grandmother used them quite often as well. I think my grandmother probably used them because they would have masked the stale odors in the houses in England since they were closed up due to the poor weather. One of the big deals when you went to grandmas house was getting to light the incense.
They came in a small wooden box the size of a small match box but taller and were cone shaped with many different scents. My favorite was sandal wood.
Steve.
You've hit a soft spot in my youth. So much of it involved fireworks and firecrackers in particular. Punks (the way we spelled it) were 3 for five cents and one would last for hours.
I googled them and they said it is a piece of bamboo covered in dried manure or sawdust.
Dry, rotten wood was always called punk by the old timers when I was growing up. When it was lit it would smoulder for hours and as long as it had source of oxygen it would burn as long as there was material to burn.
We used small dried tree roots and saved the nickle for fireworks.
Incense burners. My mother and my English grandmother used them quite often as well. I think my grandmother probably used them because they would have masked the stale odors in the houses in England since they were closed up due to the poor weather. One of the big deals when you went to grandmas house was getting to light the incense.
They came in a small wooden box the size of a small match box but taller and were cone shaped with many different scents. My favorite was sandal wood.
Steve.
