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From: rrd@hpfcso.HP.COM (Ray Depew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Wind Chill Index
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Date: 25 Jan 91 15:22:21 GMT
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Michael Grant writes:

> 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.

Umm...  I think Mr. Taber was making a joke.  When you're talking about a wind
so cold that it freezes your boogers and makes it hard to uncurl your fingers
from the rungs of the ladder, it might as well be "absolute zero" -- for that
matter, it might as well be the end of the universe.  Whatever it is, it feels
so #$%!@ cold that it doesn't need numeric definition.

And I thought Stanford students had a sense of humor.

-- Ray
MSEE '88