Incredible what a simple flippant comment can spawn, isn't it?
Robert D.
-----Original Message-----
From Larry Macy <macy at bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu>
To: Ron Soave <soavero@yahoo.com>; Richard Shipman <mbelect@mindspring.com>
Cc: Spridgets <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Date: January 17, 2000 4:27 PM
Subject: Re: cool ... no lbc
>Forget about it. This temp thing is all in the mind. If you did not have
>a mind you would not mind the temperature.
>
>Larry
>
>PS Wind chill does affect inanimate objects. If you move the air away
>from a warm area it will cool off. As the core of the object is warmer
>than the surface, the warmth will radiate out, then that warmth is
>transfered to the air which is then removed from the area of the object,
>making the air surrounding the object cooler. Which must then again be
>reheated to the surface temp of the object. Now eventuually the object
>will cool to the air temp - it will fall a little below the air temp but
>it will reach a point that it will get no colder. However- it will get
>there a lot faster in moving air than in moitionless air, and isn't a
>moving air mass what causes wind chill?? It is all relative temp and
>density of material.
>
>At this exact moment in time 1/17/00 10:25 AM, soavero@yahoo.com made the
>profound statement:
>
>>> cooling action. If this were not true, then humans
>>> could not survive in
>>> temperatures above 98.6 degrees.
>>
>>Of course - the point is that as the sweat evaporates
>>and you produce more sweat to maintain your body temp,
>>the PERCEPTION is that you are warmer.
>>
>>=====
>>Ron Soave
>>
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>
>
>Larry B. Macy, Ph.D.
>macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu
>System Administrator/Manager
>Neuropsychiatry Section
>Department of Psychiatry
>University of Pennsylvania
>3400 Spruce St. - 1015 Gates
>Philadelphia, PA 19104
>
> Ask a question and you're a fool for three minutes; do not ask a
>question and you're a fool for the rest of your life.
>
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