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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: The Warm Equations
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2024 19:01:32 -0500
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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