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Re: Darn those definitions (was: The new Super Car)
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lugnet.robotics
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Sun, 8 Aug 1999 01:00:06 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Dennis Clark writes:
> I think that you will find that fluid is not compressable. If fluid were
> compressable fish could not live 2 miles down, divers couldn't dive and
> dolphins and whales would be crushed on their very common 700 foot dives.
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> This is all quite true of water, its not compressable. Is water unique in
> that aspect?
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> DLC
incorrect my friend. if water was not compressable at all there would be no
pressure difference from the top to the bottom. Admittedly it is not very easy
to do it, but it will compress. Most solids are compressable too. At hight
pressures, most things will fill a smaller volume.
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Darn those definitions (was: The new Super Car)
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| (...) easy (...) Like I said, everything is compressible, with the probable exception of the stuff in a black hole. Even the exclusion principle (the law that controls elecron 'orbits' round an atom) is reconed to be overcome by sufficient force (...) (25 years ago, 9-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Compressible fluids
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| (...) Um, I'm sorry, I honestly didn't want to keep this discussion alive in ANY form but this is silly. The pressure difference from top to bottom results from the weight of the water on top. Period. If I put a 6 ton weight (shades of Monty (...) (25 years ago, 9-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Darn those definitions (was: The new Super Car)
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| (...) I think that you will find that fluid is not compressable. If fluid were compressable fish could not live 2 miles down, divers couldn't dive and dolphins and whales would be crushed on their very common 700 foot dives. This is all quite true (...) (25 years ago, 8-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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