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Posted by Orpheus on Sat Feb 18th at 2:41pm 2006

OK, question #1

If Teflon is a no stick substance, then how do they stick it to the inside of your skillets?





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Posted by Myrk- on Sat Feb 18th at 4:12pm 2006

I believe Lep did a project on Teflon back in A-Level. I think its the way in which teflon is applied or made. I think only 1 side is super smooth, the other is rougher allowing it to be applied to items/fixed with heat etc.

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#2

How does self cleaning glass work?




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Posted by French Toast on Sat Feb 18th at 5:22pm 2006

Why, in Guild Wars, are some poeple light blue dots, and some dark blue dots?




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Posted by Orpheus on Sat Feb 18th at 5:52pm 2006

? quoting French Toast
Why, in Guild Wars, are some poeple light blue dots, and some dark blue dots?

Light blue means you are alone. Dark blue means you are part of a team/party.

(Thanx goes to son, Zolo Stoneblade of guildwars US)





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Posted by French Toast on Sat Feb 18th at 9:01pm 2006

ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

/kisses Orphs feet

That's bothered me for ages.




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Posted by Forceflow on Sat Feb 18th at 10:30pm 2006

@ orph:

I think teflon is no-stick under normal temperatures. They heat it up to >2000 degrees.


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Posted by Orpheus on Sat Feb 18th at 10:35pm 2006

? quoting Forceflow
@ orph:

I think teflon is no-stick under normal temperatures. They heat it up to >2000 degrees.

I do not doubt you sir but, How then would they attach it to an aluminum pan? Aluminum burns at far lower temps.

Aluminum burns at very low temps if I recall. (/me takes a moment of rememberance to a certain British Warship who's crew found out the hard way)

Next question:

Do toilets really swirl the opposite direction in the lower latitudes?

(/me looks to my Aussieland compatriots that are below the Equator)





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Posted by Andrei on Sat Feb 18th at 10:52pm 2006

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Do toilets really swirl the opposite direction in the lower latitudes?



Only those that lead into Breen's office.



There's one thing that's been driving me up the wall these last few days. Anyone here know a little something about japanese grammar? I know there must be some multilingual people here ready to share their wisdom with me.

Watashi wa nihongo suki, demo doitsu wa kirai. Ignoring the inevitable (yet non-critical) mistakes that i've managed to pack in this 2 word fraze, is it correct to use the "wa" particle in the second sentence given that both sentences can be understood individually? I doubt I should use "ga" (perhaps after nihongo, as to mark the topic, but that's another story) and "wo" seems inappropriate in this case.



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Posted by Tracer Bullet on Sat Feb 18th at 11:05pm 2006

? quoting Orpheus

? quoting Forceflow
@ orph:

I think Teflon is no-stick under normal temperatures. They heat it up to >2000 degrees.

I do not doubt you sir but, How then would they attach it to an aluminum pan? Aluminum burns at far lower temps.

Aluminum burns at very low temps if I recall. (/me takes a moment of remembrance to a certain British Warship who's crew found out the hard way)

Next question:

Do toilets really swirl the opposite direction in the lower latitudes?

(/me looks to my Aussieland compatriots that are below the Equator)

On Teflon:

  • Teflon is the DuPont trade name for polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE).
  • PTFE is "nonstick" because it is both very hydrophobic and chemically inert. If you were to prepare the surface of the aluminum pan in such a way that it was lipophilic, the PTFE would stick quite nicely to it. However, I doubt it is as simple as that. There is probably a fairly sophisticated chemical process that is used. You could for instance coat the surface with a different alkene, and then polymerize the TFE right onto the surface.
  • 2000 degrees C. is almost hot enough to BOIL aluminum, let alone melt or burn it. Besides, PTFE will decompose at much lower temperatures anyway.



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Posted by Orpheus on Sat Feb 18th at 11:10pm 2006

I was being funny and serious about the toilets really. I was always under the impression that it was the jets that caused the vortex to appear. I mean, every toilet has these pointing in a certain direction.

The bigger question would be: Does the drains of sinks and bathtubs form a vortex in correlation to the toilet theory?





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Posted by Andrei on Sat Feb 18th at 11:19pm 2006


AKAIK that rule only applies to hurricanes.




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Posted by Orpheus on Sat Feb 18th at 11:23pm 2006

? quoting Andrei

AKAIK that rule only applies to hurricanes.

Hurricanes and their direction of rotation is caused by convection winds if I recall. Hardly a correlation to ones bathroom, in spite of the tales told about how daddies poots will move the wind. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_lol.gif">





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Posted by Andrei on Sat Feb 18th at 11:28pm 2006

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in spite of the tales told about how daddies poots will move the wind.



ah-HAH! The conspiracy unveils itself!




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Posted by Orpheus on Sat Feb 18th at 11:37pm 2006

? quoting Andrei

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in spite of the tales told about how daddies poots will move the wind.



ah-HAH! The conspiracy unveils itself!

Sure. Didn't you know? Dads above the Equator lift the right butt cheek and Dads below the equator lift the left cheek. Thereby causing wind to move in a given direction or path. Usually straight to Mommy who whacks the Dad for smelling up the place. Women tend to not notice the flow of the wind, just its consistency. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/rofl.gif">





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Posted by Tracer Bullet on Sat Feb 18th at 11:39pm 2006

Yeah, I was wrong at least according to several online articles I've found. I just did a couple of experiments in my sink, and found that the whirlpool direction is determined by the initial conditions of the basin rather than any other overriding force.

The rotation of weather systems and ocean currents on the other hand are governed by conservation of angular momentum.




Some people are like slinkys...

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Posted by Andrei on Sat Feb 18th at 11:42pm 2006

I suggest creating a void in a transparent box and placing a source of smoke inside to see whether the smoke particles spin in a certain direction, as if pushed by some mysterious force, or just lie on the bottom. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/heee.gif">




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Posted by Naklajat on Sun Feb 19th at 2:11am 2006

Can animals like dogs and cats "see" what's on a television when they look at it? Or is their brain and sense of sight so different that they can't make sense of it?



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Posted by Orpheus on Sun Feb 19th at 2:14am 2006

? quoting Baron von Snickers
Can animals like dogs and cats "see" what's on a television when they look at it? Or is their brain and sense of sight so different that they can't make sense of it?

My cats have been seen playing with moving objects on our TV set. I suppose they are seeing them because they are in time with the objects.

So, I assume that they can see TV.





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Posted by French Toast on Sun Feb 19th at 3:48am 2006

If Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, and that's wrong, what kind of weapons do the US have?




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Posted by Dr Brasso on Sun Feb 19th at 3:55am 2006

better ones than canada....///runs

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dont even say it frenchy....

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