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From: ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>)
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Subject: Re: The Warm Equations
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In article <v5d1cs$16abb$1@dont-email.me>,
Lynn McGuire  <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 6/24/2024 6:41 PM, Tony Nance wrote:
>> On 6/24/24 7:09 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>>> In article <v5cjig$13iac$1@dont-email.me>, BCFD 36  
>>> <bcfd36@cruzio.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The operative word above is "usually". Sometimes, there are those who
>>>> decide that the margin for safety is just too high and too expensive and
>>>> the margin is reduced. Sometimes reduced to zero. And it is rarely the
>>>> engineers who do this.
>>>
>>> The optimist sees the glass half-full.
>>>
>>> The pessimist sees it half-empty.
>>>
>>> The engineer sees a 50% margin against overflow.
>>>
>> 
>> The physicist sees the glass is full, 50% water and 50% air.
>
>The chemist also sees the glass is full.
>
>Lynn
>
>

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