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      January 10th, 2006 by mike d. in Dreams

      currently eating: drinking water

      When I have dreams, I usually have them for a few nights in a row.

      Last night I had a dream that I was dating a beautiful Hispanic girl. She wore a necklace with shells on it, a flower in her hair, and long flowing skirts with lots of embroidery. She had long dark hair and bronze skin. She was very pretty. While we were together at a musical event, I met a cute redhead with serious green eyes (thinking back, I guess that’s kind of christmassy. It didn’t seem that way in the dream). I asked the redhead out on a date DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF THE HISPANIC GIRL. Was it crass? yes. in fact the Hispanic girl started crying a little bit. But really? I had saved her family from a car stuck in quicksand earlier in the dream (I pulled it out of there like a champ), so she shouldn’t have been too upset with me.
      It was kind of like this
      Unfortunately she had some friends who did not like the fact that I had been so insensitive and they came after me with knives. Then the dream went from romance into action and there was hiding, knife throwing, and fast action kung fu.

      Overall, it was a pretty awesome dream. Though I do feel kinda bad about getting the number of that redhead.

      Authored by: mike d.

      DEFY SMCQUAID! #52: Ice is less dense than water, but….

      January 10th, 2006 by smcquaid in Features, Smcquaid

      Tuesday: The Inflammatory Ice Cube Less Dense Than Water

      The Question

      Jocelyn asks:

      This has been bugging me for a bit…
      If ice is less dense than water, how come the Earth will flood when the polar ice caps melt? Wouldn’t the water level go down…or stay the same because of their height?

      The Answer

      Good question. I have a simple answer.

      Yes, ice is less dense than water, hence, it floats. One would think that the displacement caused by the floating ice would simply fill when the ice melted. After all, your glass doesn’t overflow when the ice in it melts. (If this were the case, you might get more soda than ice when ordering a large from a fast food drive-through).

      However, the bulk of the South Polar Ice Cap is NOT floating - it’s on land (Antarctica). Also, large portions of the North Polar Ice Cap are on land (Greenland, for example). It’s these ice sheets that, when melted, can raise the sea level.

      Authored by: smcquaid
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