Apollo: One gas environment?

On Wed, 5 May 2004 18:48:28 +0800, "Neil Gerace" wrote:

(In a recent article in the local newspaper it was stated that this year
April had been "*twice* as warm as usual": the average temperature over
the last 80 years for April was 0.5 C, and this year the average
temperature
for April was 1 C... It didn't feel twice as warm, I can tell you...)

Twice 0.5C is twice 273.65K or 547.3K or 274.15C or 525.47F

Or, in layman's terms- "hotter than a two-peckered goat".

Dale

I didn't really just say that

In article ,
dave schneider wrote:
Those of us with older houses know that 2x4s were once two inches by
four inches...

Even a modern 2x4 was once two inches by four inches...the difference
is the trip through the planing machine on all 4 sides...

My understanding is that this is no longer true; modern 2x4s are not even
rough-sawed to 2in x 4in. When the machinery got better and it was no
longer necessary to take so much off to go from rough-sawed to finished,
they left the finished dimensions alone and reduced the rough dimensions.
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"Doug..." wrote in message
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Oh, sorry, I guess I wasn't clear. Part of the pre-launch check-out
after the spacecraft was buttoned up was the CM pressure integrity
check. During that check, the cabin was pressurized to roughly 3.5 psia
above ambient sea-level pressure, somewhere between 17 and 18 psia, and
the decay rate had to be lower than something like one-tenth of a pound
or less over a 10-minute monitoring period or the CSM was NO-GO for
launch.


Gotcha, makes sense. After all, since each CSM is "new" you'd probably want
to make sure right be launch it was air-tight.


That pressure was vented down to sea-level prior to launch, both pre-
Fire and post-Fire. But the pressure integrity check was done both pre-
and post-Fire.

Thanks.



Doug

"Neil Gerace" writes:
"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
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What you of course do is reuse the oil over and over; your dinner guests
will always remember the taste of fried chicken with the haunting
nuances of shrimp, fish, veal.....

Strain it out and stick it in a diesel engine.

Just don't do this in the UK. News reports say that the police are
cracking down on people using cooking oil as a replacement for diesel
fuel, because they're avoiding paying the taxes on diesel.

Jeff
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"jeff findley" wrote in message
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Just don't do this in the UK. News reports say that the police are
cracking down on people using cooking oil as a replacement for diesel
fuel, because they're avoiding paying the taxes on diesel.


Umm, please tell me this is a joke or something.

Let's see if I get this straight... they're NOT using diesel... and then
getting in trouble for NOT paying taxes on something they aren't using?

Wow.



Jeff
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"Greg D. Moore (Strider)" wrote ...

"jeff findley" wrote in message
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Just don't do this in the UK. News reports say that the police are
cracking down on people using cooking oil as a replacement for diesel
fuel, because they're avoiding paying the taxes on diesel.

Umm, please tell me this is a joke or something.

No joke.

Let's see if I get this straight... they're NOT using diesel... and then
getting in trouble for NOT paying taxes on something they aren't using?

No, they're getting in trouble for not paying taxes on something they /are/
using [fuel in car]. Technically I think they /can/ use cooking oil as long
as they pay taxes on it.

It's covered quite well he
http://www.sovereignty.org.uk/features/eco/biofuel.html

On Mon, 03 May 2004 19:20:15 +0000, Henry Spencer wrote:

Units conversions work better to the extent that they approximate currency
conversions.

Wall Street Journal, May 5, NYUE Closings for May 4, 2004

The inch closed up slightly against the cm yesterday after sluggish
trading in the metric sector.

On the other hand the Kilogram weighed in to counter the anti-metric trend
closing up 1.5 micrograms against the pound.

"Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)" writes:

"jeff findley" wrote in message
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Just don't do this in the UK. News reports say that the police are
cracking down on people using cooking oil as a replacement for diesel
fuel, because they're avoiding paying the taxes on diesel.


Umm, please tell me this is a joke or something.

Let's see if I get this straight... they're NOT using diesel... and then
getting in trouble for NOT paying taxes on something they aren't using?

Wow.

Some amount of taxes to build and maintain roads is built into fuel
taxes (gasoline and diesel).

I've heard that in the US, this is one reason why kerosene (for
heating) and diesel (for driving) are different colors. I understand
you can get into trouble in the US if you're caught using kerosene in
your diesel engine of your vehicle.

If you look around the "alternative fuel" web sites, you'll find that
in the US, you're expected to pay fuel taxes when you use alternative
fuels. It's just that in the US, it doesn't seem that the police have
much of a desire to "crack down" on the average consumer. I'd be much
more worried if I were a commercial truck driver. They seem to get
pulled over in many states on a regular basis for "safety checks" and
the like.

Jeff
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"Paul Blay" wrote in message
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No, they're getting in trouble for not paying taxes on something they
/are/
using [fuel in car]. Technically I think they /can/ use cooking oil as
long
as they pay taxes on it.

Aren't they paying VAT or something when they buy it?

"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
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The downside is
that you end up with a lot of used oil at the end of the frying cycle.

It's been 19 years since I worked at the buffet, and the scars from
filtering 15 gallons of hot oil a night have finally faded.