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From: adb@herboid.uucp (Anthony DeBoer)
Subject: Re: Human bodies explode in vacuum?
Organization: Linda's Dragon Memorial Society
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 18:41:23 GMT
Followup-To: rec.scuba

Lee Vogt <lvogt@digi.lonestar.org> writes:
> ...
>If I'm not mistaken, the 130' limit applies to ALL recreational SCUBA diving,
>as going deeper than that requires *planned* decompression stops, at which
>point it's no longer recreational, but professional, diving.  ...

There are divers who go deeper than 130' without being paid to do so,
although PADI and most of the other recreational dive training agencies
won't certify them to do so.  Equipment and training requirements become a
lot more complex than for simple no-decompression diving, but if somebody
is going to go to all that trouble, they'll wind up no less qualified than
a professional diver.  A lot of these people go by the name of "technical
divers".

Also, the original US Navy decompression tables claim you can go to 190'
for five minutes and straight back up without any decompression stops.
You might not see a whole lot on such a dive, and anyway I wouldn't
recommend pushing the "outside of the envelope" quite that hard.

But we've strayed quite a distance from the original topic by now. 
Followups directed to rec.scuba.
-- 
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From: plutchak@pilsner.geo.brown.edu (Joel Plutchak)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.science,sci.misc,rec.arts.startrek.tech,rec.scuba
Subject: Re: Human bodies explode in vacuum?
Date: 18 Nov 92 18:40:10 GMT
Followup-To: rec.scuba
Organization: Brown University Planetary Geology
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In article <1992Nov18.152600.11804@gssec.bt.co.uk> awright@gssec.bt.co.uk (Alan Wright) writes:
>Is it not about time that the terminology was sorted out? We need to
>get some form of common reference when discussing technical issues.
>I don't think there is any need to get hung up on this but it does
>keep cropping up. Here are some suggestions:
>
>Recreational Diver:...

   And when you do this, could you remove the extraneous and
inappropriate newsgroups from the "Followup-To:" line, like
I did?  Thanks...
--
Joel Plutchak, Research Programmer/Analyst
From: rf@cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.science
Subject: Re: What is the purpose of the large and small prong on 2-pronged plugs
Date: 16 Nov 92 11:42:10 GMT
Organization: U of Cambridge Computer Lab, UK

In article <1e66sbINN953@gap.caltech.edu>, carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick) writes:
|> In article <15NOV199212004732@elroy.uh.edu>, st1r8@elroy.uh.edu (Guillot, Burt J.) writes:
|> >That subject says it all ...
|> 
|> But doesn't get automatically included in replies, and would be meaningless to
|> someone whose home hasn't been rewired in the last 15 years or so.

Or to someone who lives in a country where the _only_ current standard
is for 3-pronged plugs...

|> [rest deleted (even though it makes sense!)]
--
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From: bwatson@nyx.cs.du.edu (bruce watson)
Subject: Re: Blue Lint from the Dryer
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Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 19:46:20 GMT

In article <Bxtu54.GE8@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> treincke@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Tim Reincke) writes:
>Actually, I get plaid lint in my dryer... ;)
>
>I think that the blue lint comes from the lint daemon running in the
>background in your dryer.  Or maybe it comes from the blue jeans or
>blue shirts or blue towels??  
>
I think this may be the answer. I get red (actually light red) lint.
I have red pajamas and a red shirt but not blue jeans. Ok, Ok, I get
some and report back if there is a change of color. Science is fun.

--
Bruce Watson  wats@nyx.cs.du.edu  Toy Cows, Toy Cows in Africa, Toy Cows
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From: adb@geac.com (Anthony DeBoer)
Subject: Re: Human bodies explode in vacuum?
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 14:50:38 GMT
Organization: Geac Computer Corporation

In article <1992Nov13.190025.6323@digi.lonestar.org> lvogt@digi.lonestar.org (Lee Vogt) writes:
>[Much discussion of the hows & whys of nitrogen narcosis deleted]
>
> [another poster wrote]
>>Nitrogen narcosis usually occurs at depths around 300 feet, or (at 30 ft to
>>the atm) a pressure change of ten atmospheres.
> ...
>Also, at 300 feet, the pressure would be 11 atmospheres, one atm/30 feet
>(roughly) *plus the one atm of pressure at the surface*.  Always forgot to
>add that one in myself, too...

Actually, you're both partly right.  The absolute pressure, including the
one atmosphere at the surface, is just a hair over ten atmospheres, not
eleven, since it's actually 33 feet of seawater (34 feet of fresh water)
that exerts a pressure of one atmosphere.  Nine times 33 is 297', plus
one atmosphere surface, is ten atmospheres.

The 10% error in that approximation throws the calculation by a whole
atmosphere once you get down to the 10 or 11 atmosphere range.

>I beg to differ on this point.  I recently completed a class in
>recreational SCUBA-diving (PADI program) and nitrogen narcosis was mentioned
>as typically occuring at around 100 feet, if memory serves me properly.  In
>any case, as the depth limit for recreational SCUBA is 130 ft maximum and 
>nitrogen narcosis is mentioned as a hazard in the course-book, the statement
>that 'nitrogen narcosis usually occurs ... around 300 feet' is in error.

100 feet is typical for the onset of nitrogen narcosis, although some
extremely sensitive individuals have noticed it as early as 60'.  However,
it gets worse with increased depth, so believe me, you'd be narked at
300'. :-)

There are other problems, like oxygen toxicity, carbon dioxide buildup,
hypothermia, breathing difficulty due to increased gas density, etc.,
that also rear their ugly heads as you start getting really really deep,
although your PADI course wouldn't have mentioned these in any great
detail, if at all, since they're generally not factors yet at the 130'
they warned you never to exceed.
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From: craig@cattnts.canada.ncr.com (Craig Campbell)
Subject: Re: Human bodies explode in vacuum?
Organization: AT&T / NCR Canada Ltd., Toronto, Canada
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 13:16:37 GMT

In article <1992Nov18.152600.11804@gssec.bt.co.uk> awright@gssec.bt.co.uk (Alan Wright) writes:

>Technical/Deep Diver:	Nitrox/heliox/caves etc but no strenuous work.
						    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

						    ?????????????????

You try lugging all that equipment around and then tell me it's not
strenuous work! :-)  I would even suggest that technical diving might just
be the most strenuous, since it lacks the surface supply/support and 
equipment of professional diving.

Otherwise, the I have no other comments on the definitions.


>How about a few proposals and then we can ask Nick about including it
>in the FAQ.

>Alan

craig
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NCR Canada,		|	of the planet.  Chaos Rules.
an AT&T Company		|	I speak for no one, except, possibly, myself.
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From: oahvenla@snakemail.hut.fi (Osma Ahvenlampi)
Subject: Re: Type of armor
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 06:02:40 GMT

In article <1eb533INNp3v@sam.ksu.ksu.edu> sdoran@sam.ksu.ksu.edu (Steven Marcotte) writes:
>	There is a type of armor that is make by placing a piece
>of aluminum on a ceramic tile.  The combination is then heated
>and the al. is absorbed into the ceramic.  From what I have heard
>this makes REALLY good armor.  What is the name for this type of
>armor?

Sounds like Chobham(sp?), the one used in for example M-1 Abrams tank.
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From: connor@nexus.yorku.ca (James Connor)
Subject: Re: Blue Lint from the Dryer
Organization: York University
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 03:59:31 GMT


	Whenever and whatever I wash, the lint that shows up in my trap is
a sort of pale blue-gray....
From: russ@bbxrbk (Russ Kepler)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.science
Subject: Re: What is the purpose of the large and small prong on 2-pronged plugs
Date: 18 Nov 92 03:30:22 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization

In article <BxvKLE.1Fo@javelin.sim.es.com> rspeirs@javelin.sim.es.com (Ron Speirs) writes:
>In article <1e8g31INNgmo@gap.caltech.edu> carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
>>The question was "why are the two prongs not the same size."  My response
>>answered that question.  If you want to figure out which is which, find a
>>properly installed polarized socket and check to see which side is neutral.
>
>The convention in the USA is that the narrow prong is "hot" and the wide
>prong is "common".  If you look at a wall socket, you will also see that 
>the screw to attach the "hot" wire is brass- or brass-colored, and the
>screw to attach the "common" wire is silver-colored.

Ahh, but the *real* question is why the prongs have holes in the tips...

-- 
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From: judson@watserv.ucr.edu (Mike Judson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.science
Subject: Re: Nitrogen Narcosis
Date: 15 Nov 92 23:52:22 GMT
Reply-To: judson@watserv.ucr.edu

In article <1992Nov9.155548.6766@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>  
mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel) writes:
> In article <1992Nov6.232924.28405@mdd.comm.mot.com> rudoff@mdd.comm.mot.com
> (Doug Rudoff) writes:
> >In article <Bx9Cr5.M5E@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> rlbell@babbage.uwaterloo.ca
> >(Richard Bell) writes:
> >>Nitrogen narcosis is caused by the air pressure being high enough to start
> >>forming laughing gas.
> >
> >Sorry, you're wrong. From what I've read and talking to one of my
> >scuba diving buddies, if you replace the nitrogen with another gas
> >such as argon (which will not combine with anything), it will still
> >cause narcosis if breathed under enough pressure. Laughing gas
> >(nitrous oxide) has nothing to do with it. It's some weird
> >physiological function that is unexplained as of yet.
> 

Sorry, but being a chemist and a scuba diver, I can tell you that you are
both wrong.  Nitrogen narcosis (the bends) is caused by nitrogen in the
blood.  When scuba diving and breathing compressed air, a person will be
breathing nitrogen under water.  This is because 80% of air is nitrogen.
As he breathes this air, nitrogen will be absorbed into the blood stream.
Then, because of Boyle's law, as the diver ascends, the nitrogen gas wil
expand in the blood.  If there is too much nitrogen in the blood, the 
person will experience nitrogen narcosis and what will result is severe
muscle cramps (hence the bends) and possibly death.  However, this can be
avoided by not breathing nitrogen under water, which can be done by
breathing a combination of Helium and oxygen, which Jacque Cousteau does.
The reason why you do not want to breath pure oxygen is because at extreme
depths, oxygen becomes poisonous.  

--
"It takes a big man to cry.
but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man."
				Jack Handy


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From: kirsten@irma.cs.mun.ca (Kirsten Starcher)
Subject: Re: Blue Lint from the Dryer
Organization: CS Dept., Memorial University of Newfoundland
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 16:17:36 GMT

In article <1992Nov15.021935.20368@alf.uib.no> bjornts@ii.uib.no (Bjoern Tore Sund) writes:
>In article <1992Nov13.182917.22107@berlioz.nsc.com>, nelson@desktop.nsc.com (Taed Nelson) writes:
>|> It seems that whenever I wash and then dry my clothes that the "lint" (AKA
>|>   "fluff") that gets caught in the "lint trap" is _always_ some shade of blue.
>Now, _anyone_ with a certain level of education (i.e. who has read Douglas 
>Adam's Hitch-hiker trilogy) would now, and be able to recognize this as the
>first trials of interstellar contact from the super-intelligent shade of blue
>of the planet - eh - eh - (What's the name again folks?).

I don't think it says what the planet is, but the color is known as a 
Hooloovoo...


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From: wingo@apple.com (Tony Wingo)
Subject: Re: What is the purpose of the large and small prong on 2-pronged plugs
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 17:42:53 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer
Followup-To: alt.folklore.science

In article <1992Nov18.033022.4518@bbxrbk>, russ@bbxrbk (Russ Kepler) wrote:
rew to attach the "common" wire is silver-colored.
> 
> Ahh, but the *real* question is why the prongs have holes in the tips...

Back when these plugs were first standardized, manufacturers did not have
access to corrosion-free spring alloys to make the socket contacts out of,
so the sockets had spring-loaded detents that engaged the holes in the plug
contacts, to guarentee a good contact.  The holes became part of the
specification for the plug, so they are still there even though they
haven't been necessary for a long, long time.

-tony
From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.science
Subject: Re: What is the purpose of the large and small prong on 2-pronged plugs
Date: 18 Nov 1992 13:20:58 GMT
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
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In article <1992Nov18.033022.4518@bbxrbk>, russ@bbxrbk (Russ Kepler) writes:
=In article <BxvKLE.1Fo@javelin.sim.es.com> rspeirs@javelin.sim.es.com (Ron Speirs) writes:
=>In article <1e8g31INNgmo@gap.caltech.edu> carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
=>>The question was "why are the two prongs not the same size."  My response
=>>answered that question.  If you want to figure out which is which, find a
=>>properly installed polarized socket and check to see which side is neutral.
=>
=>The convention in the USA is that the narrow prong is "hot" and the wide
=>prong is "common".  If you look at a wall socket, you will also see that 
=>the screw to attach the "hot" wire is brass- or brass-colored, and the
=>screw to attach the "common" wire is silver-colored.
=
=Ahh, but the *real* question is why the prongs have holes in the tips...

I don't know for sure that this is the answer to your question, but I can tell
you from experience that in the event of a sudden dead short, the prong fuses
where the hole is, thus reducing the fire hazard.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Disclaimer:  Hey, I understand VAXen and VMS.  That's what I get paid for.  My
understanding of astronomy is purely at the amateur level (or below).  So
unless what I'm saying is directly related to VAX/VMS, don't hold me or my
organization responsible for it.  If it IS related to VAX/VMS, you can try to
hold me responsible for it, but my organization had nothing to do with it.
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From: tomas_e@LINK.Physchem.KTH.SE (Tomas Eriksson)
Subject: Re: Human bodies explode in vacuum?
Reply-To: tomas_e@LINK.Physchem.KTH.SE
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 17:26:04 GMT

In article <BxM483.HEp@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>, rlbell@babbage.uwaterloo.ca (Richard Bell) writes:
>Nitrogen narcosis usually occurs at depths around 300 feet, or (at 30 ft to
>the atm) a pressure change of ten atmospheres.
>
>The reaction is 2N2 + O2 = 2N2O, as the volume of the product is only 2/3's
>of the reactants' volume, this reaction is favored by increased pressure.  

Yes, increasing the pressure favours the side of the reaction that has 
less number of gas molecules. But, as I wrote before, that's 
*thermodynamics*, or simply put, answer to the question "could this 
reaction proceed in this direction at all?". This means that the 
answer at atmospheric pressure is "yes" and at a higher pressure 
"slightly more yes". But, pressure hardly affects *kinetics* (answer to 
the question "how fast does this reaction, allowed by thermodynamical 
considerations, proceed? does it occur at all?"). Temperature is the 
critical variable here, since higher temperature means that the 
molecules crash together with greater speed (and more often).

To conclude: If a reaction is favoured thermodynamically at temperature 
T and pressure p_{1}, but does not take place (i.e. unfavourable 
kinetics), it will not take place at the higher pressure p_{2}, where it 
is also thermodynamically favoured, if the temperature is still T.

Tomas
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From: chrisbee@nick.csh.rit.edu (I live in the water!)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.science,alt.alien.visitors,alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Blue Lint from the Dryer
Date: 17 Nov 92 01:27:51 GMT
Organization: Computer Science House @ RIT

In article <1992Nov15.021935.20368@alf.uib.no> bjornts@ii.uib.no (Bjoern Tore Sund) writes:
>In article <1992Nov13.182917.22107@berlioz.nsc.com>, nelson@desktop.nsc.com (Taed Nelson) writes:
[nelson's post deleted 'cuz it's tangental]
>
>Now, _anyone_ with a certain level of education (i.e. who has read Douglas 
>Adam's Hitch-hiker trilogy) would now, and be able to recognize this as the
>first trials of interstellar contact from the super-intelligent shade of blue
>of the planet - eh - eh - (What's the name again folks?).

The race was called the Hooloovoo but their planet was never named
>
>Sigh...
ditto...
>
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From: doerfler@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (ronald.w.doerfler)
Subject: Re: Drowning Duck Experiment?
Organization: AT&T
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 17:06:21 GMT


Excuse me if someone mentioned this already, as I just picked up this 
thread.  There is a Perry Mason novel, which I believe is called 
"The Case of the Drowning Duck", that was written in the 1930's,
I think.  Perry enters an apartment where a murder took place,
and a duck is drowned in the bathtub (as I recall!).  Anyway, the 
reason is finally given as detergent, a brand new item at the time,
and I have no recollection of its relevance (though it had such)
to the murder case.

Ron Doerfler

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From: slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth L. Blumberg)
Subject: Polarized plugs
Organization: Generic American College Kids (G.A.C.K.)
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 04:59:38 GMT
Reply-To: slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth L. Blumberg)
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carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
>dlphknob@cs1.bradley.edu (Jemaleddin Cole) writes:
>>I don't think you have answered his question yet.  Which is the ground?
>>The larger or smaller plug?
>
>The question was "why are the two prongs not the same size."  My response
>answered that question.  If you want to figure out which is which, find a
>properly installed polarized socket and check to see which side is neutral.

The large prong is neutral, the small is "hot" (I think).  Neither of them is
ground; ground is the third prong.

Seth L. Blumberg          \ Warning: This posting has been determined to cause
slb22@columbia.edu (play)   \ cancer in laboratory animals.  Please make sure
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    > No one I know shares my opinions, least of all Columbia University. <
From: gdh@calmasd.Prime.COM (Gerald Hall)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.science
Subject: Re: Blue Lint from the Dryer
Date: 19 Nov 92 00:25:55 GMT
Organization: Computervision, San Diego, CA

In article <1992Nov17.194620.29395@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> bwatson@nyx.cs.du.edu (bruce watson) writes:
>>I think that the blue lint comes from the lint daemon running in the
>I think this may be the answer. I get red (actually light red) lint.

Actually, I think that the discovery of blue shifted lint is really
exciting as it suggests that the universe is not uniformly expanding.
Red shifted lint comes from all edges of the universe and is naturally
much more common.  However, we should be cautious here.  I have never
personally seen blue shifted lint and I think we should await replication
of these results in other dryers before we make to much of it.

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From: sdoran@sam.ksu.ksu.edu (Steven Marcotte)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.science
Subject: Type of armor
Date: 17 Nov 1992 10:02:43 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: sam.ksu.ksu.edu


	There is a type of armor that is make by placing a piece
of aluminum on a ceramic tile.  The combination is then heated
and the al. is absorbed into the ceramic.  From what I have heard
this makes REALLY good armor.  What is the name for this type of
armor?

Steven

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From: ralf@ark.abg.sub.org (Ralf Stephan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.science
Subject: Re: Aluminum cookware: Recipe for disaster?
Date: 21 Nov 92 10:13
Organization: Not Very Ltd.

carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick) writes:
> Hmmm.  Interesting argument.  But I've got a question.  Have you ever looked 
> a piece of aluminum that's exposted to the atmosphere for an extended period 
> time?  Notice how it's got this aluminum oxide layer on it?  Now look at the
> inside of an aluminum pot.  Nice and shiny.
> 
> Now:	Where did the aluminum oxide you'd've expected to see on the inside of
> 	the pot go?


On the risk that Carl is joking here:  You can't see the oxide in neither
case, it's very thin.  There's a process called 'Eloxal' where Al ware is
oxidized through electricity and develops a very corrosion-proof surface.

ralf
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