Jerry W. Decker wrote:
> Hi Folks!
>
> This was recently posted and you HAVE TO READ IT!!!
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> The dunking bird does make us face some interesting thermodynamics.
>
> Consider a closed, thermally isolated (adiabatic) system containing at
> time t=0 a pan of water and dry air that are at the same temperature.
> As time passes, evaporation will deliver water vapor to the air and
> cause the remaining water in the pan to cool off! However, since the
> system is closed, the air will eventually reach saturation humidity and
> the remaining water in the pan will not be cooled any more. Assuming
> zero heat flow thru the system walls, what will the final temperature of
> this system be? Cooler than the starting temperature?
>
> Scott Little & Stephanie Eyres Little
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> Scott Little wrote:
> >
> > The dunking bird does make us face some
> > interesting thermodynamics....what will the final temperature
> > of this system be?
>
> Scott, I'm glad you are displaying publicly your ignorance
> of Drinking Bird physics. It makes it quite clear that
> you are not qualified to experimentally investigate the effect.
> Your level of ignorance is incredible, but that
> is excusable---you are simply outside your area of expertise.
> The inventor of the Drinking Bird had 50 years experience
> working with evaporating liquids, during his years operating
> a still in the Ozark mountains, starting during the Prohibition.
> He knows things about evaporation that one cannot expect to
> find in books or papers, or to learn on ones own with a few days, weeks,
> or even years of trial and error. He has spent hundreds of thousands of
> hours learning how to enhance evaporative effects, painstaking
> preparing, distilling, and drinking thousands of experimental recipes.
> It is pointless for you to try and duplicate his efforts!
>
> Your recent pathetic attempt to investigate the Drinking
> Bird O/U effect is an appaling afront to real science---you
> devise an experiment bound to fail---which you don't even carry
> out!---and then simply fall back on theoretical prejudices
> to affirm your imaginary results! Evidently, you find the prospect
> of Drinking Bird Power to great a threat to your current
> cozy existence, and will use any means necessary to discredit
> it, to the point of completely fabricating experimental
> results! This is worse than the great MIT Drinking Bird
> scandal, in which they subtracted off the molecular bonding
> energy stored in the birds glass skeleton in order to make they
> final results come out under unity!
>
> I cannot sit by any longer, allowing this travesty to continue.
> Millions of people are dying unecessarily each day that
> this technology is delayed. So, I am formally announcing
> that I'm launching a new magazine, call "Infinite Drinking",
> which will be a vehicle for spreading information about
> Drinking Birds, and related devices that bob incessantly.
>
> Also, I'm incorporating my own comapany, Drinking Bird Power
> (DBP), to begin selling demostration kits and
> raising capital to construct a 20 KW prototype Drinking Bird
> Power plant. The design for this plant is completed, and
> we are currently partnering with companies that can supply
> us with a 300 meter long glass tube and 100,000 gallons of red liquid.
> We are still seeking a vendor who can supply us with a size 10,000 fuzzy
> red tophat and a giant red feather.
>
> Our research group is also making incredbile strides.
> Good Morning America's science editor Dr. Michael Guillen
> recently visited our research lab in the Ozark mountains,
> where he observed our latest breakthrough:
>
> it appears that if the red liquid in the bird is spiked with radioactive
> isotopes, the radiation is completely remediated after
> roughly 1000 bobs. A complete technical demonstration will be appearing
> on Good Morning America in the near future.
>
> The time to develop Drinking Bird Power is now. I can clearly
> see the day when fields of great crystalline birds, their
> red hats bobbing in unison, their red liquid cores rising
> and falling like the tides, provides for all the worlds
> energy. Astride every water heater, and under every hood,
> a silent chorus of Drinking Birds will power our lives.
> And they will dance silently upon the graves of the patholigical
> skeptics and scietific welfare queens who denied and feared
> their reality. Here's to "Infinite Drinking!"
>
> ;-) ;-)
> --
> Barry Merriman
> Asst. Prof., UCLA Dept. of Math
> Research Scientist, UCSD Fusion Energy Research Program
> email: barry@math.ucla.edu homepage: http://www.math.ucla.edu/~barry
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