From kencomer@kencomer.com Tue Nov 30 21:30:10 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 30 Nov 2004 21:38:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from pop-a065d23.pas.sa.earthlink.net ([207.217.121.254]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CZN45-0004f7-MK for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 21:30:10 -0800 Received: from user-11fb0c1.dsl.mindspring.com ([66.245.129.129]) by pop-a065d23.pas.sa.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1CZN43-0000SG-00 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 21:30:07 -0800 User-Agent: Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition/5.02.2022 Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 23:26:04 -0600 Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: more 'suck' From: Ken Comer To: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20041130173942.GF25791@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-archive-position: 903 X-Approved-By: jkominek@miranda.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: kencomer@kencomer.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners on 11/30/04 11:39 AM, Robin Lee Powell wrote thusly: >> "Space has relatively low pressure of hydrogen relative to earth >> air" doesn't mean much to me. > > Ummm, then I don't know how to make sakci make sense to you. Earth's air consists of many different elements and compounds either as gas or suspended particles. Dry air contains 79.02-percent nitrogen, 20.95-percent oxygen, 0.03-percent carbon dioxide and included in the nitrogen are small amount of rare gases: argon, neon, helium, krypton, hydrogen, xenon, and radon that apparently have no physiological significance on us mere mortals. ( http://www.mountainflying.com/oxygen.htm ) The primary gas in Earth's air is nitrogen. The total air pressure [= "1 atmosphere" = 1013.25 millibars (mb), 101.325 kilopascals (kPa), approximately 29.92 inches of mercury (in Hg), 760.0 millimeters of mercury (mm Hg), or 14.6959 pounds of force per square inch (lbf/in^2)] is equal to the sum of the partial pressures of all constituent gasses. The statement above is saying that the partial pressure of hydrogen in Earth air is greater than the partial pressure of hydrogen in space. In other words, even though the vacuum of space contains very few molecules but some of them are hydrogen; and the Earth's atmosphere which consists mostly of things other than hydrogen still has more atoms of hydrogen than space does. The preceding non-linguistic physics lesson has been brought to you by Weirdest World Wordsmithery: when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. [ moderator's note: this email has been converted to 7 bit ascii. there were some funny characters. i made educated guesses. ]