Dave, Joyce, et al - would not noon-noon (or midnight-midnight) be fairer? I presume the time is selected by some pseudo-random number generator. Louis Hart
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need to go to international space station to catch your question ;-) (how many times around the globe a day?).
On Apr 23, 2015, at 5:32 PM, David Hillman wrote:
> Hi Joyce - remember that to be "fair" to everyone on the planet and
> multiple time zones, the posting of the Element Quiz was announced to
> be any time from Thursday, Noon, Central Standard Time Zone, USA to
> Friday, Midnight, Central Standard Time Zone USA. Keeps everyone
> guessing.
>
> Dave
>
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 4:28 PM, <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> not fair. it is not even Friday... strange
>>> Here is the Element Quiz Answer:
>>>
>>> The Question:
>>> This element has a wide range of commercial uses: strobe lights,
>>> lasers and ion propulsion engines. The word "stranger" or "strange
>>> one". The color "blue". Which element is being described?
>>>
>>> The Answer:
>>> The element is Xenon (Xe). The name xenon is derived from the Greek
>>> word "xenon" meaning "strange one or stranger". Xenon makes up just
>>> 0.086 ppm
>>> by
>>> volume of air. Xenon is also approximately 4.5X heavier than air.
>>> Xenon headlights have a characteristic "blue" glow. Ramsay and
>>> Travers had to
>> go
>>> to extreme lengths to discover xenon - they had to produced
>>> 10,000 pounds
>>> of krypton in their refrigeration system to obtain just one pound of
>> xenon
>>> (fractional distillation of air methodology).
>>>
>>>
>>> The winner of the weekly element quiz is Leland Woodall, CSTech, and
>>> Robert Welch, Moog Components Group, and they will split the
>>> services of Clumpy and Kloumpios for the week. The time stamp for
>>> their answers from the Rockwell Collins firewall was so close that
>>> it was easier to call it a tie!
>>>
>>> EQAB reviewed Doug's "Pulsium" submission and after extensive
>>> research
>> has
>>> again disqualified his response. The EQAB investigation revealed
>>> that pulsars emit electromagnetic radation which is not observable
>>> in the visible spectrum. And the color of a pulsar will be dictated
>>> by its temperature which means colors other than blue are possible.
>>>
>>> However, EQAB did learn a new fact as part of its research - the two
>>> Pioneer spacecraft plaques have Earth's position documented by 14
>> specific
>>> pulsars relative to our Sun thus providing anyone who bumps into
>>> those spacecraft the ability to calculate our location in terms of
>>> both space and time. Not sure if that is a good thing or
>>> not.................
>>>
>>>
>>> So far Clumpy and Kloumpios have done the following:
>>>
>>> Past Quiz winners/tasks:
>>> Week 1 Dick Krug, Spartan Complex Systems Week 2 Laura Turbini, IRC
>>> Week 3 James Head, Crowcon Detection Instruments Limited Week 3 Pat
>>> Goodyear, PGE Week 4 Joe Russeau, Precision Analysts Laboratory Week
>>> 5 Tom Carroll, Boeing Defense, Space and Security Week 6 Steve
>>> Gregory Week 7 Phil Kinner Week 8 Brian Ellis Week 9 James
>>> Head,Crowcon Detection Instruments Limited Week 10 Leland Woodall,
>>> CSTech Inc.
>>> Week 11 Keith Calhoun, Sopark Corp
>>> Week 12 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld-Elektronik Week 13 Leland
>>> Woodall, CSTech Inc.
>>> Week 14 Brian Ellis
>>> Week 15 Tom Carroll, Boeing Defense, Space and Security Week 16
>>> Steve Gregory Week 17 Phil Kinner Week 18 Ian Braddock, MBDA Systems
>>> Week 19 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc.
>>> Week 20 Denny Fritz, SAIC
>>> Week 21 Amol Kane
>>> Week 21 Dewey Whittaker, Honeywell
>>> Week 21 David Bealer, Watch Fire Sign Week 22 Phil Kinner Week 23
>>> Guy Ramsey, RD Circuits Week 24 Mark Kostinovsky, Schlumberger Week
>>> 25 Keith Calhoun, SoparkCorp Week 26 Paul Reid, PWB Interconnect
>>> Solutions Inc Week 27 Greg Munie, IPC Week 28 Steve Gregory Week 29
>>> Gus Trakas, Viasystems Week 29 Steve Creswick Week 30 Robert
>>> Welch,Moog Component Group Week 31 Heidi Havelka, Interplex Sunbelt
>>> Week 32 Raye Rivera, Canoga Perkins Week 33 Steve Creswick Week 34
>>> Dewey Whittaker, Honeywell Week 35 Don Vischulis Week 36 Greg Munie,
>>> IPC Week 37 Larry Dzaugis Week 37 Bonus Question Steve Mikell Week
>>> 38 Curt McNamara, Logic PD Week 38 Bonus Question Dewey Whittaker,
>>> Honeywell Week 39 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc.
>>> Week 40 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc.
>>> Week 40 Ron Feyereisen, Sigmatron Int.
>>> Week 41 Steve Gregory
>>> Week 42 Steve Mikell
>>> Week 43 Mark Kostinovsky, Schlumberger Week 44 Leland Woodall,
>>> CSTech Inc.
>>> Week 44 Eddie Hofer, Rockwell Collins Week 45 Leland Woodall, CSTech
>>> Inc.
>>> Week 46 Joe Russeau, Precision Analysts Laboratory Week 47 Phil
>>> Bavaro,L-3 Communications Week 48 Brian Ellis Week 49 Leland
>>> Woodall,CSTech Week 49 Drew Meyer, Benchmark Electronics Week 50
>>> Greg Munie, IPC Week 51 Karen Tellefsen.
>>> Week 52 Greg Munie, IPC
>>> Week 53 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc.
>>> Week 54 Phil Bavaro, L-3 Com.
>>> Week 55 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc. deferred to Richard Stadem, GD,
>>> Week 56 Carl Van Wormer, Cipher Engineering LLC Week 57 Leland
>>> Woodall, CSTech Inc Week 58 Leland Woodall, CSTech, Inc.
>>> Week 58 Bonus Question Robert Wolfe
>>> Week 59 Greg Munie, IPC
>>> Week 60 Graham Collins, Sunsel Systems Week 61 James Head, Crowcon
>>> Detection Instruments Limited Week 62 Leland Woodall Week 62 Brien
>>> Bush, Cirtronics Week 63 Pat Goodyear, PGE Week 64 Ed Popielarski
>>> Week 65 Jim West, N.S. International Week 66 Brian Ellis Week 67
>>> Ravinder Ajmani, HGST Week 68 Robert Wolfe Week 69 Joe Russeau, PAL.
>>> Week 69 Leland Woodall, Keihin North America Week 70 Jim West, N.S.
>>> International Week 71 Steve Gregory Week 72 Bhanu Sood, CALCE Week
>>> 72 Ed Popielarsk Week 72 Robert Welch, Moog Component Group Week 73
>>> Torsten Hagge, Kristronics GmbH Week 74 Greg Munie, IPC Week 75 Doug
>>> Pauls, Rockwell Collins Week 76 Graham Collins, Sunsel Systems Week
>>> 77 Robert Kondner, Index Designs Week 77 Bonus Brien Bush,
>>> Cirtronics Week 78 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc.
>>> Week 79 Denny Fritz, SAIC
>>> Week 80 Brian Ellis
>>>
>>> Week 81 Mordechai Kirshenbaum
>>> -The guys are very lucky. This week, most of the country is on
>>> vacation .
>>> They are also going to enjoy a great weather. Tell me when they are
>> going
>>> to arrive at Ben Gurion Intl airport. Starting last Saturday and
>>> until Friday, we have Passover Holiday and most of the people don't
>>> work. Our tin/lead and lead-free assembly lines were closed on April
>>> 2nd.
>>> So the
>>> boys
>>> and I are going to tour the country. I hope next Sunday they will do
>>> some work to start the assembly lines just before leaving Israel.
>>>
>>> Week 81 Jim West, N.S. International -The boys arrived late Sunday
>>> and I had them over for a nice home cooked meal, which is my
>>> favorite meal that my wife prepared and consisted of roast beef,
>>> potatoes, carrots and broccoli....yum! Shared with them some of my
>>> diverse adult beverages and told them to enjoy but also to take it
>>> easy as I had a big week planned for them. Well, the evening went
>>> on
>> fine
>>> but the adult beverages took over and left all of us feeling a
>>> little rough
>>> the next morning :-0 So, we started our Monday morning off a
>>> little
>> late
>>> and it took us a better part of the day to get moving. The boys are
>>> hard workers and they helped me with multiple projects this week and
>>> made my job a little easier and I believe they felt a sense of
>>> accomplishment, even though we didn't get off to a good start the
>>> beginning of the week. They are primed and raring to go for the
>>> next lucky individual that gets their services.
>>>
>>> Week 82 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc
>>> -assisted with ????
>>>
>>> Week 82 Robert Welch, Moog Components Group -assisted with ????
>>>
>>>
>>> Everyone have a safe week.
>>>
>>> Dave Hillman
>>> Rockwell Collins
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>>> Data Credit Note: the information in the Element Quizzes is taken
>>> from
>>> several published sources including The History and Use of Our
>>> Earth's
>>> Chemical Elements by R. Krebs and Nature's Building Blocks by J.
>>> Emsley.
>>>
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