Does a capital ship sinking actually SUCK a swimmer down to drown?

Dec 22, 2015 48 Replies

When changing size, especially on the scale of a battleship compared to a floating object in a bathtub, all sorts of things don't scale the same. For example if an ant was scaled up to human size it would no longer be able to have the same strength to weight ratio it enjoys at its regular size. Another example that seems excessive but is true is that to small flying things, like bees, the air seems much more viscous than it does to us. I was reading several years ago in Science News that the viscosity of water to a swimming human is similar to what small flying insects experience flying in air. I wonder what the world is like for very small life forms, like bacteria, and very large ones like blue whales. Eric

sputnik had original meaning traveling companion, so yes.

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sputnik (n.) Look up sputnik at Dictionary.com "artificial satellite," extended from the name of the one launched by the Soviet Union Oct. 4, 1957, from Russian sputnik "satellite," literally "traveling companion" (in this use short for sputnik zemlyi, "traveling companion of the Earth") from Old Church Slavonic supotiniku, from Russian so-, s- "with, together" + put' "path, way," from Old Church Slavonic poti, from PIE *pent- "to tread, go" (see find (v.)) + agent suffix -nik.

Poutnik ( the Czech word for a wanderer ) Knowledge makes great men humble, but small men arrogant.

Dne 23/12/2015 v 00:25 Tony Hwang napsal(a):

That is not needed but it is very difficult to maintain similarity.

Poutnik ( the Czech word for a wanderer ) Knowledge makes great men humble, but small men arrogant.

Not surprising. Normally, quality home builders will put in a CW toilet and a CCW toilet because if they were both the same direction and both got flushed at once, it can damage the connection where the house sits on the foundation. If you buy a home already built, you should make sure your toilets are opposite each other, or you should be careful not to flush both at once.

I have never heard anything like that in all my years (50 of them) of construction, nor have I heard it from the plumbers to whom I have talked. If flushing a toilet can damage "connections" we better start building things a lot better.

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It rather looks like you became a joke victim. Due random turbulent effects, the result of the toilet splash is random as well.

What may be the issue is the design of plumbing wrt the capacity.

If all guests of multi floor hotel got diarrhea after eating "salmonellized" dinner...

Poutnik ( the Czech word for a wanderer ) Knowledge makes great men humble, but small men arrogant.

How about "KAPUTNIK"? Which I first heard in the Coen Brothers' " Miller's Crossing" - do you know its meaning?

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Dne 23/12/2015 v 19:31 Robert Green napsal(a):

I do not think it has Slavic origin. It is probably related to kaput .

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Poutnik ( the Czech word for a wanderer ) Knowledge makes great men humble, but small men arrogant.

It was a name of a character in 1960s Mad magazine.

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