On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 08:37:33PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 20:29 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 07:56:39PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > > On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 19:27 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > > > Okay then, what is more bracing: > > > > > > -40 degrees Celsius > > > -40 degrees Fahrenheit > > > > > > Come on... I am waiting! > > > > They're the same, although "Celsius" sounds more like the sound ice > > crystals make when they hit your goggles. > > > > Any colder, and at least no one can complain that the mercury is > > falling. Why? (come on.. I'm waiting) :) >
Mecury freezes at about -40 which is why most thermometers (even non-mercury ones) don't go any lower. It takes a special thermometer. Don't forget about adding windchill. The scientific method requires dew-point and stuff, but basically double the wind speed in Km/h and subtract it from the temperature in C. Normal wind across an open plain is 20 Km/h unless there's a storm. So -40 C easily gets to -80 with windchill. The good news: at some point down there, all viruses are destroyed. Put a closed community in a cold place and there are no colds or flu. I've yet to join a 300 club: sauna at 200 C, run outside buck naked at -100 C. Read the book IceBound for a description (it takes place at the _south_ pole). I'd love to live in the high arctic if the cost of living wasn't so high. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
