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Posted on 01/23/2008 2:49:50 PM PST by neverdem
Yeah. I think it should be 2.11 X 10^15 cu meters. Six meters times area of sea.
All I will say, as a former Mechanical Engineering student with Engineering-level Physics coursework in my not-too-recent past is...
Dang, there are some smart people that contribute to this forum.
But then again, I’ve forgotten more physics then all you guys know.
(That’s because I’ve essentially forgotten it all, and you just can’t say you know it all!)
/johnny
Is 2002 the first time the Larsen B ice shelf has collapsed in the height of the summer season?
And what does Huckabee say about this hoax, or has he bought into it? Or is he afraid to challenge the elitists?
/johnny
I don't understand where that number comes from, or does it mean anything?
As far as I can tell both the exponent and the coefficient are meaningless. But notice that he also got the next number wrong. It should be 22 x 10^14 or 2.2 x 10^15, not 22 x 10^15.
Since the guy doesn't even understand exponential notation correctly, my judgment is that it is not worth proceeding further.
/johnny
What a mess.
Well that’s nice for a machinist, but not everyone would accept that definition.
So, if I tell you I will be done with a project in approximately 10 minutes, and I run a minute over, my time estimate is really bad? Is a second too much over?
If you purchase approximately 1 cubic yard of dirt, do you require it to be correct to within 0.0002% when it is delivered?
But if you want to talk about Antarctic ice sheets melting you also have to consider that the ice sheets are actually gaining net mass from snowfall. And that snow has to come from water vapor evaporating from the sea resulting in lower sea levels.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,323645,00.html
This is entirely consistent with Al Gore's gross exaggeration of facts to advance his agenda.
After Live Earth he repeatedly claimed that two billion people participated worldwide - internet stats and TV ratings actually showed a worldwide audience of around 40 million - just TWO PERCENT of his claimed total...
The man is a blatant and repetitive LIAR..
I agree. The volume of water should approximate the volume of ice.
Actually, it is 2.16 x 1015m3.
Say what you will, I would prefer higher sea levels over another Little Ice Age. The latter could reduce the earth’s people-carrying capacity by 75 percent, down to around 2 billion.
Global warming = people moving.
Global cooling = people starving.
From what I understand, this ice shelf was known as a permanent feature until it collapsed. These shelves are very thick and take many ( i.e. hundreds ? ) of years to form.
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-- Prof John B. Fenn, Nobel Prize, Chemistry, 2002
As well as the numerical and conceptual errors noted, I think this quote is a botch. It's certainly "off" since the steam-engine is not capable of learning, and would stand for steam-engineering as a metonym, but in that case it contradicts itself.
I knew this as "Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science" and a google search of "science owes more to the steam engine" gets 300+ hits, where "The engineer has learned vastly more from the steam-engine" hits only this putative citation.
The familiar quote means that the practice of steam engineering contributed more to the knowledge of thermodynamics than vice versa.
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