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you might break your waters |
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Uisge beatha (Lit. "Water of Life") is warming if applied internally. |
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Well, you can create different layers of water by using streams with different saline content but how much heat were you expecting to generate VJW? |
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There was a guy who claimed to have created an
over-unity device using a friction steam generator
that was basically similar to a washing machine. |
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In the end it obviously wasn't, but it was still damn
efficient. Then again, most methods of heating are
pretty efficient. |
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// how much heat were you expecting to generate// |
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Any heat generated is welcome. |
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This is done all the time: centrifugal pumps running against a dead head (big pumps can easily generate steam); blowing water across a pressure relief valve. |
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Pretty sure this is how microwaves work? Also, I would refrain from nitpicking the whole 'water has layers' concept. Laminar flow is modeled as many layers of water, you have boundary layers in all of fluid dynamics, Newton's law of viscosity specifically revolves around the forces between these layers, etc. etc... layers in water exist until turbulence, basically. So, what [Ling] said. Also, potentially [mfd] widely known to exist. |
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You could rub two rough pieces of ice together fast, but they'd be pretty cold to start with. |
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No i couldn't, i have a thing about not liking gloves and they make me go all twitchy. I sometimes succeed in overcoming this if i have to do a prostate exam though. |
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Hint: Don't wear gloves, just use a machete. It's tricky to get the prostate out in one piece, but once you have, it's much easier to examine it. |
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Well it is impossible to palpate all of it that way, so i'll try to remember that in future. I'm sure it'd encourage patients to return and give me good word of mouth. |
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Maybe not, but it's an (almost) sure-fire cure for hypochondriasis. Probably, anyway. |
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Wow. I'm never one to cry "off topic", but I think we turned a corner somewhere. |
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You'd definitely want some water of life for that (link). |
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Weren't calories of heat originally fit into other measurement systems by dropping a weight connected to a stirrer in a beaker of water equipped with a thermometer? See link. |
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I once went swimming in a mountain stream that had been frictioning downhill over rocks and swirling in layers of turbulence, and I can assure you that it wasn't warm at all. |
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Cheers, [8th]. Don't mind if I do. Sláinte! |
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[ninteenthly] //sometimes// ?! |
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Hope you keep your fingernails trimmed short, then. |
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If he left them long, he wouldn't need a machete. |
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[factoid]: This was done as an experiment in the 1800's in order to pull together the current laws of thermodynamics as we have them today. |
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[Mouseposture], you may be joking but as it happens, yes i do and that's something we were sternly advised to do during our training. |
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Sorry about the veering OT. |
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this has survived quite long enough. |
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[marked-for-deletion] No idea. |
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Having looked at [VJW]'s profile, I can say that here is a
halfbaker in serious need of a dough-job. |
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