>> I just find it bizzare that this huge washing machine, spinning away 
>> to violently that it's deafening to stand near and you'd probably be 
>> injured if you touched it, uses about 5% of the power of a teeny 
>> little kettle. Far out!
> 
> A. Didn't you say it uses 600W at final spin speed?  That's 20% of 3000...

Your powers of mental arithmetic greatly exceed mine.

> B. It only seems bizarre because you already had decided on the way 
> things are before learning even the first fact about them (ie. do an 
> experiment like this, or study electrical theory).  It's really cool to 
> go "wow!" and be excited about new discoveries.  But you are kinda 
> saying that things you haven't seen should behave exactly as your head 
> imagined it, rather than work the way it always has done, only waiting 
> for you to come along and discover it.  Actually, now I think of it, you 
> do that rather too often, which is unfortunate because you limit 
> yourself then...   :'-s

I didn't say I don't believe it. I just said it seems really bizzare and 
puzzling, that's all.

Gee, I wonder what our lawn mower uses...

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