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You say that like it would be a bad thing (1)...

(1) Think of the TV rights, the charadee toonz, and of course, the children!

 

George,

I know that, like me, you'll have spent the past two weeks wondering how to
punish the sea for killing all of them people and I know that, like me,
you've probably realised that bombing the sea doesn't do an awful lot.

However it has occurred to me that the sea is a liquid and the natural enemy
of the liquid is the drinking straw.

If you ask your science boffins they'll tell you that for a straw to work
you need one end stuck in liquid and a vacuum at the other end. What's
more, if you ask the boys as NASA they'll tell you that space is one _big_
vacuum.

So, if you construct a big metal pipe, stick one end in the Indian Ocean and
the other end in space then you can suck all of that evil water into space,
killing it instantly, and leaving room for the good water in the other
oceans to colonise the space it leaves behind in the name of democracy and
freedom.

So, how about it? Is it a plan or what? If it works then you could use it
in future to lower sea levels and get rid of the threat of melting ice caps
in the ozone layer or whatever it is that those environmentalists keep
banging on about.

PS My wife thinks that if you suck the Indian ocean into space it might
turn into a big comet of ice and smack into us, but what does she know, eh?


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In

I hope he realises the gravity of this diabolical plan, before it's too
late.

 

He's hatching plans to invade Tsunamia as we speak, I imagine.

 

space,

You know this wouldn't actually work very well, don't you? Still, the
Americans have a happy history of hugely expensive defence projects
that everyone knows from the start won't actually work.

this month, they seem to be mostly banging on about the destruction of
permafrost.

 

Sez you.

God bless them.

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The speccy Geordie twat.

 

The new Michael Crichton book, whilst not being particularly good from a
plot POV, does at least raise some questions about all this "the world is
ending" stuff.

 

Surely sticking the other end of the straw up Georges nose into his brain
cavity would not only quicker and cheaper, but would also be a familiar
concept he could identificate with.

 

Hey Tallbloke, I was just reading your website ...
http://edstrong.blog-city.com/read/982641.htm

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It may be worth examining Mr. Crichton's personal agenda, the agenda of
his sources and the veracity of his sources in the first instance before
reaching any conclusions about the questions he raises.

 

Good point. I'd better get on with things, instead of reading
dpreview.com

 

Absolutely - hence I didn't say "facts" - but it does at least raise the
question of giving it some thought.

 

The holiday and blog links don't work

 

Exaclty. Any fool can see that all of space would drain down into the
Indian Ocean thus raising the sea levels as all the stars and stuff
drained in...

 

well, a little thought experiment for you.

Take this hypothetical pipe from sea level up to space.

Now, expand the diameter of the tube a bit. Now, expand it a bit more.

Now, expand it so the diameter is equal to the circumferance of the
earth i.e. the pipe is gone again.

Even if you made the pipe bore small enough to allow for capillary
action to take place, I don't think the negative pressure at the vacuum
end would be enough to suck the water the whole way up the tube.

 

Not really necessary though, is it. If the logic were sound the
atmosphere, which weighs a lot less, would all be sucked out into
space as soon as the laws of physics' backs were turned.

 

Well, tha's the think with the laws of physics, innit - very
efficiently policed.
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darsy bored us all completely to death with wittery prose along the
lines of:

| > > You know this wouldn't actually work very well, don't you?

The pipe itself would have to be made of an impermeable membrane too.

 

Bastard pigs at it again.

 

hence my thought experiment for Andy - I was demonstrating by induction
why his idea was bogus.