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I think what he meant a word of caution: "please constrain your problem well enough or engineers will run with it in the direction they...
Yesterday, 9:09 AM
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What is the meaning of 'Hapless'?
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I'm not sure you're wrong; I'd say you have a subset of the word use. Finding oneself inexplicably lost in a foreign country with no...
Tuesday, 10:18 PM
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Can a glass of water be filled to its edge?
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You are talking about measurements in a setup that simultaneously spans the millimetres of a liquid's meniscus in a wine glass, to a...
Tuesday, 3:06 PM
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Can a glass of water be filled to its edge?
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Well, now we're talking about a very different scenario: the height difference between the centre of the pan and its edges is so great...
Tuesday, 3:03 PM
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Can a glass of water be filled to its edge?
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Has this not been covered by the previous material? What parameter are you changing, that would result in a different outcome?
Tuesday, 1:35 PM
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Then nothing made of atoms is flat. Can we close this thread as answered now? Or do you want to rethink this? PS Anyone want to open up...
Tuesday, 12:52 PM
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Can a glass of water be filled to its edge?
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Right. When you get into the weeds of precise measurements of very small values in enclosed rooms, every detail counts. I'm not sure...
Tuesday, 9:43 AM
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Can a glass of water be filled to its edge?
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Indeed you would. Of course, you don't need water for that. A sufficiently long, sufficiently rigid rod, lying on your laboratory floor...
Tuesday, 8:51 AM
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Can a glass of water be filled to its edge?
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The pan's centre is closer to the centre of the Earth than its edges. As far as the water is concerned (being that all it "knows" is...
Monday, 10:32 PM
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Why do emails from my contact form bounce?
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Do you know how to open a Command Prompt on your computer? Do so, and then type ping example.com: Bad ping: Good ping:
Monday, 9:31 PM
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Can a glass of water be filled to its edge?
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No, it the water surface would not be flat; it would follow the curvature of the Earth. Note that, if you puttered around this giant...
Monday, 9:15 PM
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Monday, 7:52 PM
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Predicting frequency of Earthlike planets and systems
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I'm not assuming that, no. I just happen to be interested in chasing down Earth-twins. Before getting into the weeds of tectonics and...
Monday, 7:48 PM
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Each new report of a confirmed exoplanet adds to the database of knowledge. For obvious reasons, our confirmations seem to stack up in...
Sunday, 11:45 PM
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Can I save anything in my greenhouse from frost damage?
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Funny, where we have moved to is in the middle of the Niagara Benchlands, there have got to be a score of vinyards and fruit orchards...
Sunday, 9:56 PM
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