I still miss the swaying grass.

Mostly OT, but I can’t put this is a social thread and I don’t see it anywhere else.

It wasn’t that people didn’t show; it was that their votes didn’t count because of the useless and antiquated electoral college.

>but we’re getting great marks from **the people that truly matter**

The problem (same reason why every other territory and DC won’t be) is that the GOP knows they would likely be blue states, which is why they get blocked for statehood and full representation. This mess in PR right now might be enough to force someone’s hand though. Outraged at paying taxes without representation is…

Most conservative/repug actions seem incredibly stupid and counter-productive, UNIL you realize that the actions are deliberate and the consequences are exactly what the conservatives want.

Last weekend all we wanted was for the president to stop spending all his time tweeting about the NFL and pay attention to Puerto Rico. He’s done that!

Despite his constantly violating their Terms of Service, they have specifically said that they refuse to block him. So charming.

Although, as many others have pointed out, if they leave PR and settle in, say, Florida (which is pretty likely, given the magnitude of the damage) they can start voting for President in the next election. And I can’t imagine they will have forgotten about 45's response to this crisis.

Yes! And as my coworker with family in the island said is he doesn’t realize that because they are citizens he won’t be able to ban them.

In a generation or 2, he will be quite the case study.

I know, what was I thinking?

Yeah, Bluetooth is nowhere stable and consistent enough to justify getting rid of the headphone jack. I ran into this issue when trying to use Bluetooth headphones while my phone was in my back jersey pocket. That’s no more than 3 feet at the very, very most yet it would stutter constantly. I’m all for new gadgets and…

In the absence of friction and heat transfer, the compression and power strokes undo each other. So in an ideal model the power stroke would return the air to the pressure/temperature it was at during the intake stroke. To my mind this means a thermometer inside the cylinder would see: Intake temperature -> compressed…

First, I read nearly all the comments made on this thread, including the ones you made. It appears I was confused and thought your argument was a way more detailed version of the one someone else made about compression strokes, my apologies.
My background is in physics, and my understanding of engines is not very…

OK, where does the work go? If work was done, I, or a physicist, can measure/calculate the end energy state of something and confirm it.
Energy isn’t being created or destroyed when a car engine brakes down a hill - so where is the gravitational potential energy going, if not into the cars kinetic energy? It’s almost…

I don’t think that is quite right. Net result of no work being done on the gas — but in a non-adiabatic system heat can transfer in and out of the gas.
I predict that if you measured the engine temperature of a car that was engine braking with throttle closed from an initially cold start the engine temperature would…

No, he’s right.
You’re correct that the compressed air gets hot — but it takes that heat with it as it enters the exhaust side. It doesn’t have time to transfer much heat to the engine itself — and even if it did, it wouldn’t matter since the engine is designed to work with exhaust that is heated not just by…

mass hysteria!

One of the more interesting things about this story is one you only touched on. KHOU’s station was flooding and the staff had to move upstairs to continue broadcasting. However, the entire station soon lost the ability to send anything out to the transmitter and the station told Brandi that “she was it, you’re all we…