Oct 13, 2009: Floaters

xoxoxoBruce · 10-13-2009, 01:21 AM

Has Al Gore got you Freaked?
Afraid to go to sleep, for fear the ocean will rise up and drown you?
Is that what's troubling you, Bunky?

Cue brass band
Well never fear, help is here, we've got the perfect solution for you, Bunky!
It floats, it's got a moat, you'll be high and dry... Holland high... & dry, with...
drumroll The Citadel: Europe’s First Floating Apartment Complex.

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Olthuis is responsible for a number of floating residences around the world and he thinks that we should stop trying to contain water and learn to live with it. The New Water and the Citadel projects are an attempt to embrace water in the Netherlands, which is almost completely composed of wetlands. The project will be built on a polder, a recessed area below sea level where flood waters settle from heavy rains. There are almost 3500 polders in the Netherlands, and almost all of them are continually pumped dry to keep flood waters from destroying nearby homes and buildings. The New Water Project will purposely allow the polder to flood with water and all the buildings will be perfectly suited to float on top of the rising and falling water.

It will be 25% more energy efficient, because it'll use the water for cooling the building.
Maybe they'll have a fish farm for food, too.

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SPUCK · 10-13-2009, 05:23 AM

Mommy. Johnny pulled out the cork!

ZenGum · 10-13-2009, 06:25 AM

Well he knows he's not allowed to put his finger in the dike any more.

wolf · 10-13-2009, 07:37 AM

That one time he tried, she gave him a concussion.

Sheldonrs · 10-13-2009, 08:40 AM

And when you wash the dishes, whatever you do, don't call it a sink!

jinx · 10-13-2009, 09:34 AM

Do they have mosquitos over there?

Sundae · 10-18-2009, 04:05 AM

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Originally Posted by jinx

Do they have mosquitos over there?

Yes.

Thought I'd bring y'all back on track.

Shawnee123 · 10-13-2009, 09:39 AM

*packing bags for big move*

newtimer · 10-13-2009, 10:03 AM

Why I don't believe in the religion of 'global' warming:
1) Fill a glass halfway with salt water. (A 3% salt solution, if you can manage it);
2) Put an ice cube in the water. Mark the current water level on the side of the glass;
3) Let the ice cube melt (via hair dryer, microwave oven, window sill, etc. It doesn't matter how);
4) Notice that the new water level has not gone up after the ice melted. If you have a large enough glass and water sample, you might even notice that the water level has gone DOWN slightly.

This, fellow bipeds, is SCIENCE. Anybody can replicate this experiment. Every time, the results will be the same. Yet Al Gore and his whiny followers continue to ignore science and push their contrary religion on us.

Also, I'm curious about the plumbing for the floating condo. Please tell me they've got some flexible tubes that tether the building with the mainland, for delivering fresh water in and carrying the waste out. Oh, please tell me that it's not an experiment in self-sufficiency where the fresh water gets pumped from the pond that the nasty stuff gets flushed into.

Sheldonrs · 10-13-2009, 10:22 AM

And don't come a knockin' if this complex is a rockin'!

xoxoxoBruce · 10-13-2009, 10:31 AM

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Originally Posted by newtimer

Why I don't believe in the religion of 'global' warming:
1) Fill a glass halfway with salt water. (A 3% salt solution, if you can manage it);
2) Put an ice cube in the water. Mark the current water level on the side of the glass;
3) Let the ice cube melt (via hair dryer, microwave oven, window sill, etc. It doesn't matter how);
4) Notice that the new water level has not gone up after the ice melted. If you have a large enough glass and water sample, you might even notice that the water level has gone DOWN slightly.

That's fine for the Arctic, where the ice is floating on the water. But the Antarctic ice is on land, as are the glaciers in Greenland, and around the world.

Hillrick · 10-13-2009, 12:01 PM

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Originally Posted by newtimer

Why I don't believe in the religion of 'global' warming:
1) Fill a glass halfway with salt water. (A 3% salt solution, if you can manage it);
2) Put an ice cube in the water. Mark the current water level on the side of the glass;
3) Let the ice cube melt (via hair dryer, microwave oven, window sill, etc. It doesn't matter how);
4) Notice that the new water level has not gone up after the ice melted. If you have a large enough glass and water sample, you might even notice that the water level has gone DOWN slightly.

Not just in agreement with xoxoxoxbruce here but adding that the inhabitants of several South seas islands that are disappearing beneath the waves would like to know if you mind them moving in with you...

dar512 · 10-13-2009, 12:14 PM

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Originally Posted by newtimer

Why I don't believe in the religion of 'global' warming:
1) Fill a glass halfway with salt water. (A 3% salt solution, if you can manage it);
2) Put an ice cube in the water. Mark the current water level on the side of the glass;
3) Let the ice cube melt (via hair dryer, microwave oven, window sill, etc. It doesn't matter how);
4) Notice that the new water level has not gone up after the ice melted. If you have a large enough glass and water sample, you might even notice that the water level has gone DOWN slightly.

This, fellow bipeds, is SCIENCE. Anybody can replicate this experiment. Every time, the results will be the same. Yet Al Gore and his whiny followers continue to ignore science and push their contrary religion on us.

Above and beyond Bruce's objections, I venture to say that there are any number of variables in the real world not represented in your water glass model.

If the real world were that easy to model, weather predictions would be correct every single day.

What you've got there is middle-school SCIENCE (Love the caps. You can almost hear the Dr. Science intro). And what's needed is graduate-level science - which is a lot more murky.

classicman · 10-13-2009, 12:49 PM

Lets try this again - VERY simplistically.....

1) Fill a glass halfway with salt water. (A 3% salt solution, if you can manage it);
2) Hold an ice cube above the water. Mark the current water level on the side of the glass;
3) Let the ice cube melt (via hair dryer, microwave oven, window sill, etc. It doesn't matter how);
4) Notice that the new water level has gone up after the ice melted.

This, fellow bipeds, is SCIENCE. Anybody can replicate this experiment. Every time, the results will be the same.

Just sayin'

Shawnee123 · 10-13-2009, 12:52 PM

Ah, yes...now I see!

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10-13-2009, 09:39 AM	#8
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newtimer Operations Operative Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 479	Why I don't believe in the religion of 'global' warming: 1) Fill a glass halfway with salt water. (A 3% salt solution, if you can manage it); 2) Put an ice cube in the water. Mark the current water level on the side of the glass; 3) Let the ice cube melt (via hair dryer, microwave oven, window sill, etc. It doesn't matter how); 4) Notice that the new water level has not gone up after the ice melted. If you have a large enough glass and water sample, you might even notice that the water level has gone DOWN slightly. This, fellow bipeds, is SCIENCE. Anybody can replicate this experiment. Every time, the results will be the same. Yet Al Gore and his whiny followers continue to ignore science and push their contrary religion on us. Also, I'm curious about the plumbing for the floating condo. Please tell me they've got some flexible tubes that tether the building with the mainland, for delivering fresh water in and carrying the waste out. Oh, please tell me that it's not an experiment in self-sufficiency where the fresh water gets pumped from the pond that the nasty stuff gets flushed into.

10-13-2009, 10:22 AM	#10
Sheldonrs Master Dwellar Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Los Angeles, CA Posts: 4,412	And don't come a knockin' if this complex is a rockin'! __________________ Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry and the world laughs AT you.

10-13-2009, 12:49 PM	#14
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	Lets try this again - VERY simplistically..... 1) Fill a glass halfway with salt water. (A 3% salt solution, if you can manage it); 2) Hold an ice cube above the water. Mark the current water level on the side of the glass; 3) Let the ice cube melt (via hair dryer, microwave oven, window sill, etc. It doesn't matter how); 4) Notice that the new water level has gone up after the ice melted. This, fellow bipeds, is SCIENCE. Anybody can replicate this experiment. Every time, the results will be the same. Just sayin' __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

10-13-2009, 12:52 PM	#15
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	Ah, yes...now I see! __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

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