The Vent and Rant Thread

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

I'd kill you if you brought a spider in my house... I won't be accountable for my actions...

So snakes are OK?

[yvanleterrible]

Originally Posted by GeoffC

At that temperature can you still successfully shoot ?

Yes, if I stop ventilation just after fumes are out and if heating is at full power. This way I can manage to keep temperature of surfaces at the required 5C.

[GeoffC]

So you're going to blow hot & cold

[yvanleterrible]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

So snakes are OK?

Do it with full hockey gear then...

[GeoffC]

What's wrong with snakes, don't they come with ladders ?

[poohbear_nc]

So - I just got back from my doctor's appointment - I had the FIRST slot in the morning (8:30) - got there at 8:15 to check in with new insurance card. Put in exam room at 8:35. Doctor came into room at 9:10. Back in my car by 9:30.
Must be some sort of strange time-warp thing going on - where time stretches & shrinks depending on your location in the building.

I'm SO glad I have an ereader - I refuse to touch any magazines (or anything) in the office.

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

So - I just got back from my doctor's appointment - I had the FIRST slot in the morning (8:30) - got there at 8:15 to check in with new insurance card. Put in exam room at 8:35. Doctor came into room at 9:10. Back in my car by 9:30.
Must be some sort of strange time-warp thing going on - where time stretches & shrinks depending on your location in the building.

I'm SO glad I have an ereader - I refuse to touch any magazines (or anything) in the office.

Depends on what floor you're on. The closer you are to the earth's gravitational field, the slower your internal clock ticks.

[GeoffC]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Depends on what floor you're on. The closer you are to the earth's gravitational field, the slower your internal clock ticks.

so you recommend living permanently in the basement ?

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by GeoffC

so you recommend living permanently in the basement ?

If you want to live a long life, yes.

[GeoffC]

so when the tide rushes in and washes my cares away, it'll also shorten my life ?


cheers buddy !

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Depends on what floor you're on. The closer you are to the earth's gravitational field, the slower your internal clock ticks.

Yes! Proven by recent confirmations of General Relativity.

[GeoffC]

Who brought the General into the equation ...

[Lady Blue]

His relatives?

[poohbear_nc]

Well - they could move the exam rooms into the basement car park! Then I could wait even longer for the doctor to appear!

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by kennyc

Yes! Proven by recent confirmations of General Relativity.

Exactly!

Our astronauts have experienced this. It's kind of a complicated balancing act. As astronauts venture further from the earth's gravitational field, their clocks speed up. But since clocks can't tell the difference between acceleration and gravity, as their speed increases, the acceleration works to counter that effect.

This Time article (no pun intended) does a pretty good job of explaining it.

"While Apollo 8 was within 4,000 miles of the earth, Alley found, the spacecraft's speed was the predominant factor; time slowed up and the astronauts actually aged more slowly than mere earthlings. But beyond that distance, as the effects of earth's gravity lessened, Apollo's time began running fast. Over the entire journey, Alley says, Apollo's time passed more quickly than earth time by the 300 microseconds."