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Why has nobody yet invented a car door which can be opened half way?
Every car I've ever seen has hinges which try to force the door fully
open or fully closed. Now you can see why fully closed would be a good
idea. But if you're parked in a tight space, it's really irritating that
you can't let go of the door because you'll either get a door in your
face, or the door will spring open and scratch up the car next to you.
Such a simple problem, yet nobody has solved it. WHY?!! >_<
Why are the downstairs taps connected to the mains, but the upstairs
ones connected to a tank? Why do we even *have* a tank??
http://xkcd.com/156/
How do you do this in Haskell / Eiffel / any other languages that
perversely chose "--" as the comment marker?
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On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:59:29 +0100, Invisible wrote:
> Why has nobody yet invented a car door which can be opened half way?
Our Saturn has two "stops" - one about half way, and one fully open.
Jim
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On 7/7/2010 10:59 AM, Invisible wrote:
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> Why are the downstairs taps connected to the mains, but the upstairs
> ones connected to a tank? Why do we even *have* a tank??
>
Because the mains does not have enough pressure to push the water
upstairs at a tolerable force. If it weren't for the tank, you'd turn on
the faucet and get barely a trickle... With the tank on the roof, you
get nice water pressure.
>
>
> http://xkcd.com/156/
>
> How do you do this in Haskell / Eiffel / any other languages that
> perversely chose "--" as the comment marker?
'
Hmmm... not a clue.
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~Mike
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>> Why are the downstairs taps connected to the mains, but the upstairs
>> ones connected to a tank? Why do we even *have* a tank??
>
> Because the mains does not have enough pressure to push the water
> upstairs at a tolerable force. If it weren't for the tank, you'd turn on
> the faucet and get barely a trickle... With the tank on the roof, you
> get nice water pressure.
Nice idea. One small problem: How the HELL does the water make it up an
extra floor to reach the tank??? :-P
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 18:38:33 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> Why are the downstairs taps connected to the mains, but the upstairs
>>> ones connected to a tank? Why do we even *have* a tank??
>>
>> Because the mains does not have enough pressure to push the water
>> upstairs at a tolerable force. If it weren't for the tank, you'd turn
>> on the faucet and get barely a trickle... With the tank on the roof,
>> you get nice water pressure.
>
> Nice idea. One small problem: How the HELL does the water make it up an
> extra floor to reach the tank??? :-P
The water that goes to the upper floor is full of flouride and other
chemicals that give it an excess of anti-gravitrons, allowing it to
easily get up. The bigger question is why doesn't the tank fly off into
space? ;-)
Jim
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On 07/07/2010 6:52 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> The water that goes to the upper floor is full of flouride and other
> chemicals that give it an excess of anti-gravitrons, allowing it to
> easily get up.
LOL
> The bigger question is why doesn't the tank fly off into space?;-)
>
The ball cock holds it down. All those chemicals stop it from lifting. ;-)
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Best Regards,
Stephen
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On 7/7/2010 1:14 PM, Stephen wrote:
> On 07/07/2010 6:52 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> The water that goes to the upper floor is full of flouride and other
>> chemicals that give it an excess of anti-gravitrons, allowing it to
>> easily get up.
>> The bigger question is why doesn't the tank fly off into space?;-)
>>
>
> The ball cock holds it down. All those chemicals stop it from lifting. ;-)
>
So, that's how geysers work .... <stares in astonished wonderment>
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~Mike
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On 7/7/2010 12:38 PM, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
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> Nice idea. One small problem: How the HELL does the water make it up an
> extra floor to reach the tank??? :-P
>
Many, many years ago, some yahoo decided to connect a motor to an
impeller in place it in a stream of water. His discovery? He found that
he could move water against the force of gravity. He was so proud of his
invention he brought it to a a quaint lake out on Califorina called Life
lake. He was so impressed with himself and so proud, he hooked up his
invention, dropped the inlet into the lake and drained all of the water
out just to show what he could do.
That is how Death Valley was formed. That's also how the water gets to
the tank on the roof.
The tank acts as sort of a capacitor, you know... :D
--
~Mike
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Invisible wrote:
> How do you do this in Haskell / Eiffel / any other languages that
> perversely chose "--" as the comment marker?
It seems there are whole bunches of old XKCDs that I have zero memory of
having read.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
C# - a language whose greatest drawback
is that its best implementation comes
from a company that doesn't hate Microsoft.
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On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:14:37 +0100, Stephen wrote:
> On 07/07/2010 6:52 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> The water that goes to the upper floor is full of flouride and other
>> chemicals that give it an excess of anti-gravitrons, allowing it to
>> easily get up.
>
> LOL
It's all a conspiracy, I tell ya... ;-)
>> The bigger question is why doesn't the tank fly off into space?;-)
>>
>>
> The ball cock holds it down. All those chemicals stop it from lifting.
> ;-)
Well, that would explain it. ;-)
Jim
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