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WCDT: 2301-2305 (22-26 October 2012) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Method of Madness:
There's nothing new under the sun. Then again, in space, "under" is meaningless. Maybe we're to the side of the sun, so there's plenty of new stuff.
MillionDollar Belt Sander:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 24 Oct 2012, 13:20 ---There's nothing new under the sun. Then again, in space, "under" is meaningless. Maybe we're to the side of the sun, so there's plenty of new stuff.
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The sheer number of friends of mine who didn't "get" that this was an original attempt at humor and not a blazing callback to something else astounds me.
I thought my peeps were far more "original minded" than that. Clearly I need to murder them all, sell their stuff on ebay and acquire new friends.
Barmymoo:
I'm the opposite, I always assume that things are new when apparently they are a callback to something I've not heard of.
cesariojpn:
--- Quote from: Skewbrow on 24 Oct 2012, 11:50 ---
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 24 Oct 2012, 09:28 ---
--- Quote from: Schmorgluck on 24 Oct 2012, 08:52 ---
--- Quote from: Skewbrow on 24 Oct 2012, 04:57 ---(many people, e.g. my wife, can just float on their backs without any swimming motion, but I cannot do that myself well enough to trust it).
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Even in freshwater? Because I can definitely do that in saltwater, but in freshwater I always end up vertical if I don't move my legs.
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Well, I can't speak for Skewbrow's wife, but mine can.
TBH, she has some extra buoyancy...
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I've seen her do it in both fresh water and salt water (or the Baltic Sea, which passes for salt water over here, but does not have the salinity of an ocean). She is near the petite end of the feminine spectrum, so that does not play any role. May be her lung volume to body volume ratio is advantageous? May be my problem is that I'm a moutbreather, whereas she only needs to have her nostrils a quarter of an inch above the surface. Nah, she is just better swimmer than I will ever be.
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SCIENCE ALERT!! SCIENCE ALERT!!
Actually, the reason why you can float easier on salt water than fresh water is the salt. Because salt water is heavier and denser than fresh water, many things can float much easier than normal.
Or to put it bluntly, look up images of folk floating in the Dead Sea, one of the saltiest bodies of water out there. They float much higher in the water than normal beach goers in the rest of the world.
http://www.msnucleus.org/membership/html/k-6/wc/oceans/4/wcoc4_1a.html
Method of Madness:
I'll be there in December! I'm not quite sure I want to go in.
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