Mailing List lml@lancaironline.net Message #15306
From: Wendell & Jean Durr <legacy147@cableone.net>
Sender: Marvin Kaye <marv@lancaironline.net>
Subject: Ocean spitting
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 12:19:25 -0400
To: <lml>
" I agree, spitting in
the ocean raises the ocean level, but if you do it from a boat, the boat
rises by approximately two times the spit!"
 
Sounds like something for nothing. Wouldn't the lightened boat rise, thus reducing the amount of ocean displaced, resulting in a drop in the level of the ocean equal to the amount of added fluid, being the same fluid quantity removed from the boat, and then...oh, what the hell. I think I'll have a beer, wait an hour and REALLY raise the ocean level, standing on the shore and avoiding all this painful thought.    w

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