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Arizona has agates as well. Take you rocks to the nearest university geology dept. and they'll be happy to help you. Or try this site for at-home ID. >> http://rockhounds.com/rockshop/rockkey/index.html

Damn why don't the quote button work? Not to mention I can't paste a copy of his post. :rant: No matter. Replying to Moontanman asking about carrying his shotgun. In my state of Washington you can "open carry" any legal firearm down the street. Some restrictions apply to schools and such and private businesses set their own rules. Starbucks made a point of allowing openly carried guns until gun toters started making a regular habit of showing up en masse up to show they gunnage. What could possibly go wrong? (To be sure I'm not aware of anything actually going wrong.) I suspect all the swaggerin' is on account of havin' a little dink. Good luck with all that.

I'm having trouble with the Quote and Linking functions, but 2nd photo looks like agate. Agate is a type of chalcedony and green chalcedony may be called chrysoprase. Search the underlined terms at Wikipedia. Hope that helps rockgirl.

My bad. I thought the theme was to be objective. Carry on then.

... The second web page says things like "However, since the LWIR re-radiation from increasing 'greenhouse gases' is only capable of penetrating a minuscule few microns (millionths of a meter) past the surface and no further, it could therefore only cause evaporation (and thus cooling) of the surface 'skin' of the oceans." which are unrealistic. Heating the surface of the ocean makes it hotter. It also makes the underlying water hotter by conduction. The only way it could promote evaporation would be by heating. ... The bolded & underlined sentence, whoever said it, is false. Source: Global Dimming Program Transcript

I simply gave them. Good luck.

OK. I was responding to the title and I'm only interested in the science and not the squabbling. Science is always amendable and if you have amendments worthy of publication, submit them to publishers. Best of luck.

Ok. You still haven't made it clear what the issue is for you? Are you trying to solve/find a specific coefficient of lift for a specific airfoil? Are you trying to find fault and/or discredit the 'standard' use of the term 'coefficient of lift'? Propose changes? What is the problem?

But you said it didn't help much? Were you mistaken? Confused? Changing your mind? Purposefully posting contradictory statements? Again, the link I gave goes into great detail about the 'things' that affect the coefficient of lift. Do you think those 'things' are wrong? Do you think there are other 'things' needed to determine coefficient of lift? I honestly do not understand the difficulty you are having. Perhaps you have some specific example in mind for which the source I gave is inadequate. If so, please give it so I can understand the issue.

You represent a modified/generalized version of the Prime specific Ulam Spiral. When the origin is 1 rather than 0, cells can be indexed using specific forms of the generalized equation 4n2 +bn + c.

So then it helped some. In what specifics was it helpful? Also, define factors as you intend the term please. I fail to understand your distinction.

The article in the OP incorrectly says the Hindenburg frame was balsa wood. d'oh! Fire and gas choice aside, the 400 foot full-scale vehicle proposed is just not going to play well in wind. No matter the engine configurations or [computer] controls such a large structure is going to be slow to react to control efforts. I expect it will/would sooner than later experience forces that cause loss of control resulting in a crash or cause structural failure also resulting in a crash. While the Hindenburg is the most often cited dirigible disaster, the US Navy's helium buoyed Akron & Macon suffered catastrophic failures.

I don't understand your equivocation. The entire article at the link goes further into the mathematical constraints/techniques at play, and if that doesn't help you then it doesn't help you.

As to what it is called as your title asks, it is called a sequence just as you used the term yourself. I find sequences interesting as well and some sequences, such as the sequence of Primes, are Very Special. It is up to the individual mathematician to set forward such conditions and characteristics of a given sequence that demonstrate how and/or why it is deserves to be called Special.

I think it is a mistake to associate ocean research in a comparative manner to NASA or any other research field. It should be enough to focus on the merits of ocean research alone, especially if the goal is to convince lawmakers to spend more. Negatively portraying other research that some lawmakers favor/champion will lose them as an audience and lose their vote in the bargain.

I enjoyed reading that! I read the rest of the thread too and as an American I have something of a tongue-in-cheek contribution. Call it the 'Elmer Fudd Effect'. Having many of us Yanks gwown up with Elmer for the past 70 or so years, and Elmer having a pwonounced whotacism, and Elmer being a portwayal of a fool of sorts, Americans associate such a speak affectation negatively and practice not to exhibit it. Do Brit's share the Fudd exposure with Americans? If so, is Elmer held in higher or lower regard by the Brits than us Yanks? Enqwiring minds want to know.

All-in-all, [current] climate change is causing geological activity. As ice loads on land masses lessen, the continental crust rebounds and as ocean levels rise the oceanic crust is compressed. Neither geologic activity nor climate are static. We're alive now -that is we personally here writing- and in geologic terms we'll soon be dead. It should be enough that we have such interesting things to do such as study geology and climate in the short time we [personally] have.

I'm no expert but I have recently had occasion to do some studying on the lift coefficient at some pages @ NASA. I found them very informative and perhaps you'll find them helpful as well. The Lift Coefficient

The carpenter often skews the plane so the blade is not perpendicular to the grain and in this case the curl comes out as a helix. Planing askew reduces tearout. Some planes have the blade skewed in the frame, such as rabbet planes which require the frame to stay parallel to the cut and which must also cut across the grain. (cross-grain planing does not make curls, rather it makes little chips.)

Perhaps you mean as in a "dual"? Try this... Duality_(projective_geometry) PS Also check out the Peaucellier–Lipkin linkage. >> Peaucellier-Lipkin_linkage

The Ulam spiral does not relate all primes in a predictable equation. Ulam_spiral @Wikipedia It's an interesting observation however, inasmuch as I have recently discovered/invented another pair of array spirals and mapped the primes on them. In accord with the OP, I think these are new but I leave it to others to determine how great they are. Feel free to discuss "my" arrays here, but please respect my copyright & do not reproduce them elsewhere. These spirals proceed down & clockwise from the origin cell at 1. As the triangle spiral array of primes is not numbered I have also attached a numbered undifferentiated array for clarification.

Volcanic eruptions are dynamic complex events subject to many variables. For example, geologists studying Mt. St. Helens had no past evidence to suspect a lateral blast as occured in 1980. St. Helens has in the past had pyroclastic eruptions as in 1980, but from the summit, as well as eruptions of flowing lava similar [though of different chemistry] to those in say Hawaii. see Eruptive History of Mt. St. Helens Many factors come into play in an eruption such as the character of the overburden from past eruptions, the amount of water and relative amounts of minerals in the melt, and the volume, temperature and shape of the magma chamber to name a few. One would not reasonably expect the same shape crater from any two eruptions from the same or different volcanoes any more than to expect two windows to break the same even if the same stone were thrown at them.

yes there is a biological wheel + shaft. Rotating locomotion in living systems

I was thinking "swale". Usually a flood control swale has a grassy/earthen bottom however. ?? Stormwater Management