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From: "Michael F. Stemper" <michael.stemper@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [ReacTor] "Bad Books", and the Readers That Love Them
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On 19/04/2024 16.13, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> Robert Woodward  <robertaw@drizzle.com> wrote:
>> In article <slrnv252ci.17f0.naddy@lorvorc.mips.inka.de>,
>> Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote:


>>> "Unusual", of course, is betraying your biased viewpoint.  Everybody
>>> knows that water is... a rock.
>>
>> Ahem, a gas - see _Ice World_.
> 
> Water is a liquid except under very unusual circumstances.  I know there are
> places like "Buffalo" and "Michigan" where water can be seen in solid form
> but this is not normal and not to be encountered under conditions capable of
> supporting human life.  Also it is ruins perfectly good whisky.  Beware at
> all times of solid water.

You have it backwards. I lived in Minnesota for 37 years, and know that
0 C is defined as the temperature at which water temporarily goes into
its liquid state.

-- 
Michael F. Stemper
Always use apostrophe's and "quotation marks" properly.