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Beer-monster · Post by **Beer-monster** » Sat Jan 17, 2004 2:20 pm

Yes....I have a seccy accent....I should be listened to

Mizaya · Post by **Mizaya** » Sat Jan 17, 2004 4:56 pm

Katy-did Bug wrote:Did anyone remember last week when I said this week it'd probably rain? And I just realzed that my favorite Fruits Basket character is the cow, and i was born in the year of the cow and I just said that cows freak me out...weird.... Anyways

Dear Heero,

Did you know that there are two layers of water? A thin top layer covers the rest of the substance, which allows small bugs and such to "walk on water". Now my question is, how is the top layer of water is formed? I mean how does it know that it should be the top layer. If it rains then the layer covers the droplet, however when it hits the ground does it just cover the areas exposed to the air? If you were not confused by what i just asked and choose not to answer I understand.

My favorite furuba character is Haru, also! Yay! About water, though, it's a really unique substance because of its nifty properties, like polarity, the fact that it exists on Earth in all three states, and surface tension, like they said.

The surface tension of water is because of the nature of the molecules to attract one another by way of the polarity, thus acting like a magnet almost that draws the surface together. This is why a water droplet is rounded. Anything that has a shape and weight that doesn't break the tension layer will sit on top of the water, like a water skate (that's an insect). Mercury is the only liquid that has a higher surface tension. In fact, a person can sit on a pool of Mercury, disregarding the fact that it will wreak havoc on the health.

Any more science questions? This is fun! I feel like Bill Nye.

Beer-monster · Post by **Beer-monster** » Sat Jan 17, 2004 5:09 pm

how do the mercurius shield work since such a concentrated manetic field would short all the circuits.

And how can heero block another MS blaster rifle since nothin can move faster than light

So wots your science Mizaya?

Mizaya · Post by **Mizaya** » Sat Jan 17, 2004 5:30 pm

Beer- I'm a sustainable resource science major with an emphasis on renewable energy (almost done, too!). I have no idea how the mercurius shield would work. I personally don't think it would

but it's tv and they can do what they want, lol. Heero can block the blaster rifle because, well, he's Heero, right?

Yeah, Heero, how does the mercurius shield work? I wondered that when watching the show, also.

Wingnut · Post by **Wingnut** » Sat Jan 17, 2004 5:35 pm

Mizaya wrote:Beer- I'm a sustainable resource science major with an emphasis on renewable energy (almost done, too!). I have no idea how the mercurius shield would work. I personally don't think it would but it's tv and they can do what they want, lol. Heero can block the blaster rifle because, well, he's Heero, right?

Yeah, Heero, how does the mercurius shield work? I wondered that when watching the show, also.

Basically the mercurius shield generates a powerful electomagnetic field that repels energy. The disks regulate and distribute this field which the purpose of which is to cancel out the incomeing beam and nutralise it. (The same applies to the shields used on the Virgo dolls too.)

Beer-monster · Post by **Beer-monster** » Sat Jan 17, 2004 5:53 pm

yes but a powerful EM field would disrupt circuits in te MS. Besides on suc a small level a finite possiblity exist for blast rifle quanta to tunnel past te Em field (assumin it acts like a Coulomb barrier)

You a scientist too Wingnut or just a mec buff?

Wingnut · Post by **Wingnut** » Sat Jan 17, 2004 6:07 pm

A mech buff. But since it was made by those 5 crackpot scientists who the heck know how the darn thing works anyway. Accually I was trying to say it works like a heat sink, disapateing the incomeing energy and likely useing the force of the blast aginst it seeing that each defnsor disk is relitvely small. Again this is theory, but that is all any of us really have to go on. In the UC Gundam series the physics is more cut and dry, however in AU series, like Wing, the actual workings of the machines are more ambigous.

Beer-monster · Post by **Beer-monster** » Sat Jan 17, 2004 7:07 pm

Maybe but te dissapation would not work for projectile weapons suc as bullets....as in te anime

illiterate · Post by **illiterate** » Sat Jan 17, 2004 7:54 pm

I also agree. Surface tension.

It's snowing! and my car won't start cause the batterie's to damn cold.

White Witch · Post by **White Witch** » Sat Jan 17, 2004 11:46 pm

Did anyone remember last week when I said this week it'd probably rain? And I just realzed that my favorite Fruits Basket character is the cow, and i was born in the year of the cow and I just said that cows freak me out...weird.... Anyways

There's a year of the cow? The only one's I know are year of the dragon, snake. horse, pig, rooster, rat, dog, ram... I forgot the rest...

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