[Rhodes22-list] Coping with sailing season/boat show interruptus

[Jay Friedland]

Saroj,
Actually wind chill at the stadium in Philly is 5 below, with the high 
(20-30 kts.) winds. Friends & their kids have ALL their winter clothes 
on for the 4-5 hours from tail-gating to game end. I wonder how much 
anti-freeze? They won't say.
J

On Jan 23, 2005, at 10:18 AM, Saroj Gilbert wrote:

> Well, first reaction is "man, Jay has to be really down to the bottom 
> of his TODO pile or simply can't face it anymore (that would be me).  
> Second reaction is that I could have an enjoyable half-hour exploring 
> this phenomenon and the apparent discovery of two "matching" (whatever 
> that means), but not quite identical, snow-not-quite-flakes, but, 
> sorry, working hard to develop strategies to continue to make money in 
> what looks like a scary market before us.  Third reaction was "is this 
> a how many angels can dance on the head of a pin conversation?" altho 
> admittedly snowflakes can be seen which shifts the conversation 
> considerably.  I suppose it is more in the realm of "is it possible 
> that two molecules of water can ever follow the precisely exact path 
> in a waterfall?"  How would one ever know actually... so given the 
> number of snowflakes that fall and the impossible task of observing 
> more than the minutest sample of them, the problem has to be addressed 
> on a theoretical / probability basis.  Thus it could be a very long 
> convresation.  Hopefully had inside near a warm fire with lots to eat 
> and drink.
>
> Just on the subject of snow and gawd-awful weather conditions, I'll 
> have to tune into the Eagles/Falcons game in Philly today to see if 
> any fans are enthusiastic enough and sufficiently self-destructive to 
> show up to sit in 19 degree windy conditions to watch the game in 
> person.
>
> Have fun!
>
> Freezing in S.E. VA,
> Saroj
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jay Friedland" <jsail1 at verizon.net>
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> Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2005 9:43 AM
> Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Coping with sailing season/boat show 
> interruptus
>
>
>> http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_392.html
>>
>>  "Some months ago, Straight Dope fiends will recall, this column 
>> struck a mighty blow for truth and freedom by attacking the belief 
>> that no two snowflakes are alike, a superstition that has blighted 
>> the lives of millions. Not having time to inspect all the world's 
>> snowflakes (besides, I lost the tweezers), Cecil relied instead on 
>> the crushing logic of mathematics, arguing that so many flakes had 
>> fallen since the dawn of time that there were bound to be a few 
>> duplicates.
>>
>>  Naturally, many scoffed. One peanut-brain called to say he knew for 
>> sure no two snowflakes were alike because he had heard it on Nova. 
>> There was also the unfortunate business with the googols, which we 
>> won't go into here. My defense in all cases was couched strictly in 
>> theoretical terms, since I did not expect any actual cases of twin 
>> flakes to turn up (although I must say the cast of characters in 
>> those Doublemint commercials certainly came close).
>>
>>  I was therefore pleasantly surprised to read in the bulletin of the 
>> American Meteorological Society that matching snow crystals were 
>> recently discovered by Nancy Knight of the National Center for 
>> Atmospheric Research. The crystals in question admittedly aren't 
>> flakes in the usual sense but rather hollow hexagonal prisms. They 
>> are also not absolutely identical, but come on, if you insist on 
>> getting down to the molecular level, nothing's identical. They're 
>> close enough for me. Just shows you, not only is this column at the 
>> cutting edge of science, sometimes we have to wait for the cutting 
>> edge to catch up.
>>
>>  --CECIL ADAMS"
>>
>> Any comments from the list?
>> Jay
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