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WCDT strips 3746 to 3750 (21st to 25th May 2018)
Skewbrow:
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--- Quote from: Undrneath on 22 May 2018, 19:34 ---I would imagine AI's like PT410X will have a problem with an AI/human relationship.
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Yeah, but PT410x has problems with just about everyone.
--- Quote from: zisraelsen on 22 May 2018, 19:06 ---Density is mathematically defined as something's mass divided by how much space it takes up. Submarines are heavy, sure, but they take up more space than the same weight of water, so they're less dense, and they float. In fact, they change their depth by taking parts of their volume taken up by air and replacing them with heavier water, which increases their density so they sink.
I don't mean to interrupt the thread by continuing with the physics, but I'm an engineering major with little to no relationship experience so this is what I can contribute to the convo at the moment
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Don't apologize on my account. I understand broad concepts, such as the principles by which a submarine surfaces and submerges (and the difference between diving under propulsion and simply changing depth using the ballast tanks), but I'm not an engineering (or any other science) major, so simple terms like "density" have serious technical definitions that I've never actually needed to know. It honestly feels a bit silly, since my personal vocabulary is rather large, to not know the correct scientific meaning of such a basic term. Physics was not my strong suit in school.
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Just to make sure. A submarine only needs as much ballast as to make its (average) density equal to that of the sea (depends slightly on salinity and such). It most emphatically does not need more ballast to go deeper. This is because the density of sea water does not really depend all that much on the depth. Captain Nemo explained this to professor Aronnax in 20000 leagues. You control a submarine's depth by steering (once you have matched the densities).
Water is very different from air because it is, for the practical purposes, incompressible. Ok, the density does increase a little as you dive deeper, but the change is so minute.... let me refer you to an expert instead.
If you knew all this I apologize for the waste of time and bandwidth.
fantasticalice:
--- Quote from: Morituri on 22 May 2018, 19:53 ---Regarding PDAs that could make some people uncomfortable, especially in relationships that some people would disapprove of, it is very much a thing of context. Some would be mortified or afraid, and some consider them reassuring. It's one of those "Listen to your partner" issues where it's best to figure out what it means before going one way or the other. So, definitely, part of the Talk.
One of my exes wanted PDAs, specifically, in front of people in both our lives, as a statement that "our relationship is not a dirty little secret and we are not ashamed to be seen together." I didn't have a problem with that. It was a need for reassurance and validation that grew out of lessons learned, for her. She'd been in a furtive relationship that nobody wanted to acknowledge, and been treated badly, and was flatly refusing to be somebody's "disposable" or "secret" relationship again.
Anyway, the reaction of people in our lives or the urge to keep things secret was a possible issue with us because her skin was a different color than mine (and that mattered to a few people around there at the time) and it had been an issue with the previous lover who hurt her because that had been a same-sex relationship.
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Yeah context is key. If My currently non existent girlfriend said she didn't want to kiss me i public because it made people uncomfortable it would really f@#Ģing hurt. PDA has frequently been nixed in romances of mine for "discomfort" and then it's either being ashamed of me or ashamed of being gay or both.
I just can't think of a way Faye and Bubbles giving eachother a romantic peck or even a few butterfly kisses would make someone uncomfortable...... Unless it's because Faye is human, or bcause they are both women, or because they are both Big girls or all of the above.
I still remember years and years ago having someone go off on me because after she had no problem at all with holding my hand she noticed everyone was staring at us and a lot of the looks weren't very nice.
PDA is a whole different ball of wax when it's two women. And I'm sorry if my posts seem mopy today.
pwhodges:
Re "density": I guess a lot of people think of density initially as the property of a material rather than of a non-homogeneous object. Given the existence of tables of the densities of materials, and the inclusion of density in lists of the properties of a material that's not all that surprising. But the wider definition is also correct and has obvious use in engineering, for instance; it may help to think of it as "average density" in that usage.
Case:
Fweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh ....
Cornelius:
Well, as for density, the practical side is really rather obvious, once you come to look at shipping. Most are made from rather dense materials - though for some "unsinkable" pleasure craft, light materials are used - and yet float.
Of course, the same is true about the other kind of shipping - the denser the individual parts, the less likely the ship is to launch, unless they're combined in the right configuration.
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