From archibal@Math.McGill.CA Wed Dec 01 11:54:45 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 01 Dec 2004 11:54:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from deluge.cc.mcgill.ca ([132.206.27.50]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CZaYm-0002gP-V9 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Wed, 01 Dec 2004 11:54:45 -0800 Received: from mailscan5.CC.McGill.CA (mailscan5.CC.McGill.CA [132.216.77.252]) by deluge.cc.mcgill.ca (8.12.11/8.12.3) with ESMTP id iB1Jse0G025657 for ; Wed, 1 Dec 2004 14:54:41 -0500 (EST) Received: from kstat01.Math.McGill.CA (kstat01.Math.McGill.CA [132.206.150.168]) by mailscan5.CC.McGill.CA (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iB1Jrmap002561 for ; Wed, 1 Dec 2004 14:53:49 -0500 Received: by kstat01.Math.McGill.CA (Postfix, from userid 3014) id 7558BE798C; Wed, 1 Dec 2004 14:54:24 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 14:54:23 -0500 From: Andrew Archibald To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: more 'suck' Message-ID: <20041201195423.GA6930@kstat01.Math.McGill.CA> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-archive-position: 908 X-Approved-By: archibal@Math.McGill.CA 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: archibal@Math.McGill.CA Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 09:57:24AM -0800, Robert Griffin wrote: > 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. This is totally off topic (well, mostly, anyway) but the lower concentration alone is not enough to cause the Earth's atmosphere to lose hydrogen - there is a gravity well to hold it there. A cold enough or large enough ball of (gaseous) hydrogen can be essentially stable - it's one of the kinds of "failed stars". The Earth loses hydrogen because it's too hot, so many hydrogen atoms are traveling at escape velocity. Most nitrogen molecules are not, so we don't lose much nitrogen; the heavier gases we don't really lose at all. Now, you could fairly say that a region of low atmospheric pressure sucks in air (and often storms)... > It appears to me that 'to suck' in the usage requested is 'sakci pinxe' or > 'sakpinxe' That looks like a good coinage for drinking by sucking (for example through a straw). Andrew