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From: taber@ultnix.enet.dec.com (Patrick St. Joseph Teahan Taber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Wind Chill Index
Message-ID: <1991Jan25.081508@ultnix.enet.dec.com>
Date: 25 Jan 91 13:15:08 GMT
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In article <1991Jan25.004430.19802@portia.Stanford.EDU>,
mcgrant@elaine23.stanford.edu (Michael Grant) writes:
|>
|>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
|>.
|>

No, Mike, I meant -273C.  It's something we earth people call humor.  Maybe
someone will explain it to you.


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                                             >>>==>PStJTT
                                     Patrick St. Joseph Teahan Taber, KC1TD

Too bad you can't buy a sense of humor... then more yuppies would have one.