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Subject: Re: The Warm Equations
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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.