Actually, Ingemar, Archimedes (Greek, not Sicilian, so I believe) did not get the whole story. You see, when he got in his bath and ruined the carpet, he'd been eating Heinz beans and had a goodly dose of CH4 in his fat gut. This was compressed by the hydrostatic pressure, so he did not spill as much water as his corpulence dictated. Now, the warmth of the hot water increased the peristaltic movement of his colon and, suddenly, all the CH4 was released, producing an enormous series of large bubbles, ostensibly to contribute to global
warming. As he was relaxing, smoking a fat cigar, the CH4 suddenly became CO2 + 2H2O, robbing a couple of molecules of oxygen from the air, producing local, rather than global, warming that singed his beard and warmed the water in his bath further, causing the said gentleman to expand, as well as the water itself. What happened to the water level?

Brian

"Ingemar Hernefjord (EMW)" wrote:

> OK, Ron, straight and a little too straight answer. Now, you did not explain this. When sicilian A. got into the basin the water rised and he opened the window and cried : evreka. Which meant 'the water is overflowing my basin and the floor carpet is destroyed'. Now my question: OK, light is switched on and runs with e through blackness, pushing darkness aside. Then, bright Ron, what way does the darkness take after being pushed away? If I bang my right hand violently into the cake, the whole tarte will..well..get somewhere else.
> Ingemar
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dieselberg, Ron [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: den 15 mars 2000 14:14
> To: 'TechNet E-Mail Forum.'; 'Ingemar Hernefjord (EMW)'
> Subject: RE: [TN] VOC legislation
>
> Same as speed of light only less bright (brite)!
> Or -186,000 ft/sec whichever you like.
>
> Q. Which is more important, the Sun or the Moon?
> A. If you said Sun you were wrong. The Moon is more important 'cuz it shines
> at night when it is dark, whereas the Sun shines in the daytime when it is
> light anyway.
> Ron Dieselberg
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ingemar Hernefjord (EMW)
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 06:19
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [TN] VOC legislation
>
> However, THIS is a very severe question to you guys: all speak about the
> speed of light. And all know what, even the man with the hanging tongue and
> Noble Prize. But nobody speak about the speed of dark! So, what's speed of
> dark?
>
> Ingemar
>
> Subject: Re: [TN] VOC legislation
>
> Yes, but it makes life more interesting :-)
>
> "Ingemar Hernefjord (EMW)" wrote:
>
> > I like the way TechNet members can camouflage electronic technical
> questions..he-he
> > Ingemar
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > I'm not sure what exactly is the biggest contributor of CH4, there are so
> many large sources.
> > Whereas the termite is one, I doubt whether it is even one of the largest.
> I suspect that it may
> > be the myriad leaks along HP natural gas pipelines, but in terms of
> nature, I'll plump for the
> > anaerobic decomposition of vegetable matter, esp. in wetlands, stagnant
> water, rainforest floors,
> > etc. In fact this includes the termite: as he chews the wood, he digests a
> very small percentage
> > of it and the rest passes out where it decomposes to produce the stuff.
> Similarly, much kelp and
> > other sea vegetation decomposes on the sea bed. Interestingly, studies
> have shown that, when the
> > Amazonian rainforest is slashed and burnt and then converted to cattle
> farming, the methane
> > production per hectare actually increases. This is because only a small
> percentage of the cycle of
> > vegetation decomposes anaerobically -  most of it is destroyed aerobically
> by microfungi,
> > producing essentially CO2 and H2O.
> >
> > As for the contribution to global warming by canned baked beans ...
> >
> > Brian
> >
> > Michael Fenner wrote:
> >
> > > Well, thank you for that thought...
> > >
> > > I understand though that the biggest contributor of methane to the world
> is the humble termite
> > > on account of the fact that there are so many of them.
> > >
> > > Mike
> > >
> >
> > >
> > > > So yes, Mike, we must never forget that a large proportion of VOCs can
> > > > be from natural causes.....animal farts...
> > > >
> > > > ....ammonia from pig farms and other animal breeding not to forget..
> imagine what tens of
> > > millions of those animals generate each hour...latest reports say
> ammonia is a real O3
> > > killer....//Ingemar
> > >
> >
>
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