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Saturday, May 24, 2003 I'm so confused. Just came across this, a mighty interesting article about water behaving in ways that appear to be cheerfully disrespectful of the laws of physics. Or at least I found interesting until I arrived at the illustration about midway through which explains how the goddamn thing works. Or is supposed to work. If you take a glance at that seemingly-innocent illusration, you'll see that the legend for it features two different kinds of arrows, red ones to indicate 'Apparent water flow,' and green ones to indicate 'Actual water flow.' Except that there don't seem to be any green arrows in the diagram. None. Not a single blessed *^%#@!!! one. Meaning that there is no actual water flow. Just apparent water flow. (And where are the green arrows? Being dumped onto the market in third-world countries rife with political discord and civil strife where they'll be sold as armaments? Or maybe they've all been planted together to form the grasslike thingy in the middle of the water-thingy, where they can be pulled out one by one as needed when some actual water flow gets underway.) Reality -- going to hell in a handbasket, and there doesn't seem to be anything we can do about it. rws 12:18 AM [+]
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