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Emphasis mine. f^^king hell StringJunky, I use the conversion and calculator all the time, the dictionary too. This is the first time I've noticed those other sites. Had no idea they existed, why would I, I mean It's free on the internet, what's the point? Its just a little thing, but thanks for pointing that out.
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Bing, Firefox, DuckDuckGo, plus several dozen more. If google want to remove its search engine from Australia then let them. There's always someone else to fill the void.
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Mpemba effect Great story about its origins on wiki. I think the moral of this story is that there are no stupid questions, just stupid answers. The effect is named after Tanzanian Erasto Mpemba. He described it in 1963 in Form 3 of Magamba Secondary School, Tanganyika, when freezing ice cream mix that was hot in cookery classes and noticing that it froze before the cold mix. He later became a student at Mkwawa Secondary (formerly High) School in Iringa. The headmaster invited Dr. Denis Osborne from the University College in Dar es Salaam to give a lecture on physics. After the lecture, Mpemba asked him the question, "If you take two similar containers with equal volumes of water, one at 35 °C (95 °F) and the other at 100 °C (212 °F), and put them into a freezer, the one that started at 100 °C (212 °F) freezes first. Why?", only to be ridiculed by his classmates and teacher. After initial consternation, Osborne experimented on the issue back at his workplace and confirmed Mpemba's finding. They published the results together in 1969, while Mpemba was studying at the College of African Wildlife Management.[9] Mpemba and Osborne describe placing 70 ml (2.5 imp fl oz; 2.4 US fl oz) samples of water in 100 ml (3.5 imp fl oz; 3.4 US fl oz) beakers in the ice box of a domestic refrigerator on a sheet of polystyrene foam. They showed the time for freezing to start was longest with an initial temperature of 25 °C (77 °F) and that it was much less at around 90 °C (194 °F). They ruled out loss of liquid volume by evaporation as a significant factor and the effect of dissolved air. In their setup most heat loss was found to be from the liquid surface.[9]
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Yes and no apparently. This isn't news or a question, I wasn't sure what to do with it so I stuck it here. Hot water freezing faster than cold water is a 'fact' I've heard several times now. Searched for an answer and found this. Found it an interesting read, Thought I'd post it. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-it-true-that-hot-water/
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I have made no perverted argument about any of these things, just been accused. Just because I've heard it doesn't mean I support it. I made a comment in response to other comments, I've since been accused of being some kind of women hating incel who thinks they lie about rape. You're making outrageous assumptions about me, I find this deeply insulting. THIS IS NOT MY STANCE.
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Utter bollocks I have heard this several times, were talking about rape. It can be a controversial subject so it tends to make the news, hence people talk about it. Why is it so hard to believe that there are people who believe in what the OP said, and these people have rang in to radio talk shows or been in the audience of a talk show and panel members have then discussed it. What's so unbelievably out there about this statement. You don't think going to prison for rape you didn't commit unfair. Okey dokey. Your still making out that I think most women are liars and that the stats prove it. I've said nothing of the sort. I've made no statements and taken no stance.
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Making what easy, what the fuck you going on about? What am I being accused of here? Once again you're making out like I'm accusing victims of being liars. You can f^^k off, you're pissing me off now. You're making all sorts of wild assumptions about me. 🖕🏻
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Everyday feminism said it. Heres are better more reliable link which has about the same, 2-10% https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_accusation_of_rape You're coming across like you think I believe the number is really high. I don't and haven't said I do. I just said that I've heard people discussing this in various forms and mentioned something about a football player. That's it.
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I believe what the experts say, about 2-7%. Maybe I'm wrong, but I get the impression you think my view is this, 'You can't assume the woman is automatically innocent because of how many of them are lying' It's not, the footballer story was just the same type of story that others had mentioned, so I mentioned one.