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What about the addiction to medical advice?
What about the addiction to climate-catastrophism? I heard a guy I know, a known CAGW-alarmist, waxing lyrical awhile ago about how the Antarctic is going to melt all-at-once, flood the planet and kill us all. You see, if you have a container of water with an ice cube in it, and you heat the container, the water will all remain at the exact temperature of the ice cube, accumulating “latent heat” but not warming AT ALL, until the ice cube is finally gone – then it’ll instantly release all its latent heat and flash into steam.
I wanted to tell him that water very definitely does not behave like that, but why? Why argue physics impossibilities with religious nut-jobs who just don’t want to know… #SMH
Lots of these wing nuts have never heard of or understood Archimedes’ principle. Ice will displace its own weight and volume in water. When an ice cube melts in a glass of water, the water level remains the same. It does not rise. Of course this only applies to ice floating on water as on the arctic ocean. When ice melts over land, and then drains into the ocean, well that is a different story.
Ice floats because it is lighter than water. So it occupies more volume than water. It is 8.3 percent less dense than water. So when it melts it will occupy less volume.
“I wanted to tell him that water very definitely does not behave like that, but why? Why argue physics impossibilities with religious nut-jobs who just don’t want to know… #SMH ”
Yet pretend they know so much and are therefore qualified, nay, obligated to inform us peons of the dangers not there. Or are there, but too much education is required to be able to discern that esoteric reality so indoctrination by our intellectual superiors is necessary.
I got to the “more than two drinks a week can cause problems”. That’s it.
Screw you, buster, I worked for years in order to justify my daily happy hours.
Yup. Straight to the junk file.
I went to the Winnipeg Folk Festival a dozen years ago and saw Mary perform this song several times. I Drink. Great tune.
What about the addiction to medical advice?
What about the addiction to climate-catastrophism? I heard a guy I know, a known CAGW-alarmist, waxing lyrical awhile ago about how the Antarctic is going to melt all-at-once, flood the planet and kill us all. You see, if you have a container of water with an ice cube in it, and you heat the container, the water will all remain at the exact temperature of the ice cube, accumulating “latent heat” but not warming AT ALL, until the ice cube is finally gone – then it’ll instantly release all its latent heat and flash into steam.
I wanted to tell him that water very definitely does not behave like that, but why? Why argue physics impossibilities with religious nut-jobs who just don’t want to know… #SMH
Lots of these wing nuts have never heard of or understood Archimedes’ principle. Ice will displace its own weight and volume in water. When an ice cube melts in a glass of water, the water level remains the same. It does not rise. Of course this only applies to ice floating on water as on the arctic ocean. When ice melts over land, and then drains into the ocean, well that is a different story.
Ice floats because it is lighter than water. So it occupies more volume than water. It is 8.3 percent less dense than water. So when it melts it will occupy less volume.
“I wanted to tell him that water very definitely does not behave like that, but why? Why argue physics impossibilities with religious nut-jobs who just don’t want to know… #SMH ”
Yet pretend they know so much and are therefore qualified, nay, obligated to inform us peons of the dangers not there. Or are there, but too much education is required to be able to discern that esoteric reality so indoctrination by our intellectual superiors is necessary.
I got to the “more than two drinks a week can cause problems”. That’s it.
Screw you, buster, I worked for years in order to justify my daily happy hours.
Yup. Straight to the junk file.
I went to the Winnipeg Folk Festival a dozen years ago and saw Mary perform this song several times. I Drink. Great tune.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ1aPaP1_Ew