From mugglesnsquibs@msn.com Wed Dec 01 09:58:32 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 01 Dec 2004 09:59:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from bay3-f7.bay3.hotmail.com ([65.54.169.7] helo=hotmail.com) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CZYkK-0008NS-Fx for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Wed, 01 Dec 2004 09:58:32 -0800 Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Wed, 1 Dec 2004 09:58:01 -0800 Message-ID: Received: from 65.123.241.82 by by3fd.bay3.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Wed, 01 Dec 2004 17:57:24 GMT X-Originating-IP: [65.123.241.82] X-Originating-Email: [mugglesnsquibs@msn.com] X-Sender: mugglesnsquibs@msn.com In-Reply-To: From: "Robert Griffin" To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: more 'suck' Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 09:57:24 -0800 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Dec 2004 17:58:01.0379 (UTC) FILETIME=[4C6F6F30:01C4D7CF] X-archive-position: 905 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.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: mugglesnsquibs@msn.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners Due to the relatively low pressure of hydrogen in near-earth space in relation to the higher pressure of hydrogen in the earth's atmosphere, some hydrogen leaves the earth's atmosphere; in other wordds, space sucks some hydrogen from the earth's atmosphere. It appears to me that 'to suck' in the usage requested is 'sakci pinxe' or 'sakpinxe' Be Well, BobGrif >From: Ken Comer >Reply-To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org >To: >Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: more 'suck' >Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 23:26:04 -0600 > >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. ] >