Colby

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Dust provides excellent condensation nuclei, but remember that most Atlantic dust comes from the Sahara. Dust from the Sahara comes with air from the Sarhara - i.e., very very dry. Dry air is bad for hurricanes :thumbs_up

The company policy one is beautiful. A priest and two Rabbis are walking along the beach. The priest is going on about all the miracles Jesus performed, and when he mentions that Jesus walked on water one of the Rabbis interrupts with, "That's nothing, I can do that now!". The priest, who not suprisingly doesn't buy this, dares him to. The Rabbi, sure enough, walks out over the water, comes back, and keeps walking. The stunned priest follows for a while, and eventually exclaims, "Well if you can do it, surely I can to!". And so the priest walks out into the water and drowns. The Rabbi looks to the other and says, "You think we should've told him about the sand bar?"

I'm a hurricane fanatic, and have been for a long time, so I'm excited about the upcoming season. I wanted to post my own forecast, and see what others think. Note - the following is absolutely and completely unofficial and entirely my own opinion.

You are correct, I was referring to time dilation. What I'm thinking of is a function involving your velocity in space and your velocity in time (i.e., as your space velocity rises, your time velocity falls). Seemed like an odd way of looking at it, was just a thought.

Yes, we have instinct. We have the instinct to reproduce, the instict to seek others of our kind, the instinct as babies to cry when we're hungry, and dozens of others.

Relativity says that as your speed in three dimensions rises, your speed in the fourth dimension falls. I'm wondering if maybe there's some sort of equation for this, someyhing like f(space_acceleration)+g(time_acceleration)=constant. Any thoughts?

Not on a Sunday. *shrugs* Only reason I'm really still up is that I went to see M:i:III earlier. Not bad.

Be careful with that, those can get incredibly hot if properly designed. I used a little foil one as a camp stove once and made a nice baked potato, no problem.

I was just referred here by someone who successfully proved himself wrong by linking to a thread. I read around a bit, and it seems like a great place to hang around to learn and pass on knowledge. My personal expertise is meteorology, specifically as related to hurricanes. So...yeah...hi.