Things you did not know

[DjDemonAsh]

The whole glass is a solid/liquid thing.
Right, first off, glass is made and has a film over it to stop it from completely disentegrating.
This film also acts as stability as its pressured and pulls the glass together.
Because of this, glass is kept in a rigid state.
Over hundreds of years, glass would infact move to be larger at the bottom CENTER than the corners. Glass is considered liquid by many scientists and the likes because it does not have a completely secure set of molecules as they can be very easily seperated.

 

[cleverlymadeup]

Right, first off, glass is made and has a film over it to stop it from completely disentegrating.
This film also acts as stability as its pressured and pulls the glass together.
Because of this, glass is kept in a rigid state.
Over hundreds of years, glass would infact move to be larger at the bottom CENTER than the corners. Glass is considered liquid by many scientists and the likes because it does not have a completely secure set of molecules as they can be very easily seperated.

no that's false on a few accounts, including the scientist thing

quick google/wikipedia search proves that those claims are false

there is a treatment but it's so the glass either dries well and/or doesn't stick together

 

[werepossum]

I'm sorry but chemists are not experts on the states of matter by any definition. Physicists are.... and I happen to be well trained in both... chemical engineering bachelors and a masters in polymer science and one in polymer engineering.

Glass is a liquid.

Dude, if you have two masters in science and engineering and you still think glass is a liquid then you seriously need to get your money back. Solids as a rule become plastic before becoming liquid. Heat a bar of steel enough and it will bend under its own weight. Put a bar of steel under enough pressure and it will flow. Put enough shear or torsional or bending force on a steel bar and it will fail plastically before it fails completely. No piece of steel has a completely regular, crystalline structure; there are always imperfections and discontinuities. Obviously none of that makes steel a liquid. The case is much the same for glass.

The principle defining characteristic of a liquid as opposed to a solid (of either type) is that the molecules are not fixed in place strongly enough to deform elastically. Depending upon your classification proclivities (lumper versus splitter), glass is either a basic and common state of matter - an amorphous or vitreous solid with molecules fixed in a random pattern, as some have mentioned - or it is a special case of solid, an amorphous (as opposed to a crystalline solid, molecules fixed in a regular pattern) solid. The main definition of a solid is that is reacts to an application of force with elastic deformation; that is, even the most fragile solid has some amount of deforming elastically, meaning that it returns to its original structure after the force is removed. A liquid does not; it may return to its original shape after the force is removed, but the molecules in a given location are not the same molecules that were in that location before the deformation. Glass is a pure solid in that it either deforms elastically or it fails; it does not act like a liquid. If you apply a force to a piece of glass and then remove it, it either regains its original shape WITH THE SAME MOLECULAR STRUCTURE, or it remains deformed. If you apply a force to a liquid and then remove it, the liquid regains its original shape WITH DIFFERENT MOLECULAR STRUCTURE. The same molecules are present, but they are now in different locations and relationships. I don't know how to state that in a simpler fashion.

Considering glasses as liquid deprives "liquid" of any meaning. You might just as well consider crystalline solids as liquids, too, since sufficient force causes deformation and flow. And of course gases are nothing but energetic liquids. And plasmas are nothing more than energetic liquids with unusual atomic structure. Either of those cases makes just as much sense as considering glasses as liquid.

Here's a good reference on the pluses and minuses of the classification of glass. Read it.
http://dwb.unl.edu/Teacher/NSF/C01/C01Links/www.ualberta.ca/~bderksen/florin.html

 

[Rabid Toilet]

Glass has properties of both solids and liquids, and is thus essentially undefined.

Shut up already.

 

[cleverlymadeup]

If Half-Life became a movie, Hugh Laurie would be a perfect Gordon Freeman.

when Hugh auditioned for the role of house, Bryan Singer said Hugh was a great example of a good american actor, not knowing Hugh was british and was faking the accent

 

[Anarchemitis]

Hugh might be a good Magnusson.

 

[call me alo]

In India it against the law to commit sodomy, any other gay sexual act and to be a transvestite. Yet transvestites are thought to hold the power to curse you so no one goes after them. They cant legally get jobs either but thats ok because its thought of as good look to have sum at your wedding, if you dont please them money wise there, they can cure your marriage even your first born.

 

[BuckminsterF]

Hitler is a least partially responsable for the hippie van, George Orwell was a Socialist, and Tesla disliked Edison

EDIT: you can't play the saxophone or polo left-handedly

 

[the monopoly guy]

you can never actaully touch anything, at the molecular level there is always space between you and whatever your "touching"...perfect excuse if you're a pervert.

 

[damo69697]

in AD 404 a tragic event finally put an end to the gladiators. A Christian monk named Telemachus entered the arena in Rome and tried to separate two combatants. The crowd went berserk, climbed over the walls into the arena and tore the monk limb from limb. The Emperor Honorius permanently banned all gladiator contests. random enough

 

[Anarchemitis]

One of the best modern theories of Faster-than-light travel involves making the space-constant ('C', aka the speed of light, 300,000km/s) faster so that the limit of speed allows faster than normal light.

 

[Anarchemitis]

Basically, "go the speed of light, make light go faster, then you can go faster than light".

 

[Unknown_Exile]

What we call the sky is merely the limit of our vision into the atmosphere. The sky, like the horizon, is always as far away as one can see.

You share your birthday with at least nine million other people around the world.

The world's first speed limit regulation was in England in 1903. It was 20 mph.

Napoleon Bonaparte is the historical figure most often portrayed in movies. He has been featured in 194 movies, Jesus Christ in 152, and Abraham Lincoln in 137.

The Eiffel Tower receives a fresh coat of 300 tons of reddish-green paint every seven years.

In M&M candies, the letters stand for Mars and Murrie, the developers of the candy in 1941.

The first safety feature for an automobile was invented in 1908 by John O'Leary. He patented a large net, to be installed on the front fender, to scoop pedestrians out of the way before they could be run over.

The original name of Los Angeles was El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles del rio Porciuncula, translating into:The Village of our Lady the Queen of the Angels of the Porciuncula River.

In 1945 a computer at Harvard malfunctioned and Grace Hopper, who was working on the computer, investigated, found a moth in one of the circuits and removed it. Ever since, when something goes wrong with a computer, it is said to have a bug in it.

The term "devil's advocate" comes from the Roman Catholic Church. When deciding if someone should be sainted, a devil's advocate is always appointed to give an alternative view.

Theodore Roosevelt was the only U.S. president to deliver an inaugural address without using the word "I". Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Dwight D. Eisenhower tied for second place, using "I" only once in their inaugural addresses.

On average, right-handed people live 9 years longer than their left-handed counterparts.

On average, people fear spiders more than they do dying. However, statistically you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by the bite of a poisonous spider.

 

[ThaBenMan]

John Lithgow is Brad Pitt's uncle... >_>

 

[iamnotincompliance]

At the height of their popularity, ABBA made more money in one year than other Swedish giant Volvo. Or, depending on the source, they were second to Volvo. Either way, that means beating out Saab, Ericsson, Electrolux, IKEA, and other major corporations, and that's damned impressive.

That, and they reportedly turned down $1,000,000,000 to reunite in 2000.

Ohio is actually the 48th state. A formal declared date of statehood was not given until 1953, which was retroactively set to 1803 where we all know it to be today.

John Cage wrote a song called 4'33", which is, of course, 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence. In three parts.

The Dodge Charger Daytona and Plymouth Superbird, in spite of appearances, do not share a single body panel.

The Chevrolet Nomad wagon was originally based on the Corvette.

Tesla is now credited with the invention of the radio, not Marconi.

Hollywood exists because Edison owned the patent on the video camera, and southern California was roughly as far away from Edison's New Jersey shpo as one could get while still being in the United States at the time, and thus as far away from Edison's lawyers as possible.

Edison attempted to dissuade the American public from using Tesla's proposed alternating current by electrocuting stray animals. This actually helped solidify AC's hold.

Comedian George Carlin's birthdate (5/12/37) is also the zipcode for George, Iowa (51237). Okay, that only works under the American system of month/day/year date writing, but shut up.

Yes, all this dross is actually rattling around in my head. It's no wonder I never get anything done. I may have more later.