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  2. From: Dr.Pepper@f241.n103.z1.fidonet.org
  3. Newsgroups: talk.origins
  4. Subject: Uniformity: miniscule cause and mons
  5. X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
  6. Message-ID: <n12e9t@ofa123.fidonet.org>
  7. Date: 23 Dec 92  02:13:00
  8. Lines: 42
  9.  
  10.  > From: userDHAL@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA (David Halliwell)
  11.  > Message-ID: <dhalliwe.724716725@muskwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
  12.  
  13.  >>T.o regulars have taken me to task for using the colloqueal "heat rises",
  14.  >>rather than saying that heated air rises.  But "heat falls back"?
  15.  
  16.  >>See what I mean?  Sad, isn't it?
  17.  
  18.  >    Yes, it is sad, Ted. I don't see any connection between your
  19.  > statement of "heat falls back" and Throop's statement "heat
  20.  > released
  21.  > when it falls back". The "it" is surely "the atmosphere" (is
  22.  > english
  23.  > your first language?), and if it requires energy to move the
  24.  > atmosphere
  25.  > upward (which would be transformed from "heat") then you get
  26.  > that energy
  27.  > back when you move the atmosphere back down (which could be
  28.  > transformed
  29.  > back into heat).
  30.  
  31.  >    Now, who is it that looks like an idiot, Ted?
  32.  
  33.  
  34. Ah, point of order. Ted does not look like an idiot.
  35.  
  36. Idiots look like Ted.
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