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From: mcgrant@elaine23.stanford.edu (Michael Grant)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Wind Chill Index
Message-ID: <1991Jan25.004430.19802@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 25 Jan 91 00:44:30 GMT
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In article <1991Jan24.082451@ultnix.enet.dec.com> taber@ultnix.enet.dec.com (Patrick St. Joseph Teahan Taber) writes:
>In article <279d5175:1544.4comp.sys.handhelds;1@hpcvbbs.UUCP>,
>akcs.joehorn@hpcvbbs.UUCP (Joseph K. Horn) writes:
>|>
>|>What I find odd is that if it's cold and windy enough, the result
>|>can be far below absolute zero.  We must ponder this mystery...
>|>
> 
>No mystery to me... remember it's *apparent* temperature.  Hanging off a radio
>tower in the middle of winter with a wind blowing, it sure seems well below
>absolute zero.
>

Gee, so what does it feel like to be in absolute zero?  I mean, to have all
of your atoms stop vibrating, so have all of your fluids turn solid, hmm...
:-)

Do you realize that when Mr. Horn writes 'absolute zero' he means -273C
or so, the point where all random kinetic energy is eliminated?  Where
everything including helium freezes, where no life could possibly exist?

I have a feeling when YOU said absolute zero you just meant 0F or 0C.

Mike
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