Things you wish you could say

[Patiocoturnix]

You mean "isn't" ?

Yeah

 

[Sally PB]

I wish I could say I'm going to a friend's wedding in Colorado.

I don't have a (trustworthy) chicken sitter, so I'm staying home.

 

[NatJ]

I wish I could say there isn’t a category 4 hurricane coming directly for me.

Um, you might be able to say it now. Milton doesn't seem to be category 4 anymore.

But I don't think category 5 is what you were wishing for.

 

[Patiocoturnix]

Um, you might be able to say it now. Milton doesn't seem to be category 4 anymore.

But I don't think category 5 is what you were wishing for.

Yeah… I would hope for no hurricane

 

[azurbanclucker]

Let's test that with some simple math, shall we?

The Gulf of Mexico contains 643 quadrillion gallons of water.

36 inch class 350 DI pipe efficiently handles nearly 17,000 gpm at default peak velocity presumption of 5.0 fps.

so

643000000000000000/17000
That means it would take a 36" pipe 3.7823529e+13 minutes.

Let's make that into hours and divide by 60
630392156863 hours.

Ok now its looking a little more manageable. Now let's divide THAT by 24 to get days.
26266339869.3 days.

Hmm. Let's divide that by a little larger number, say 365 in a year?
71,962,574.9843 years.

Oh, but there's 2 36" pipes! So we can divide that by 2.
35981287.4922 years.

35. MILLION. YEARS.

OK so we don't need to empty the whole gulf, I agree. Let's say we want... Oh, 1% of that surface water to move to mitigate a hurricane. so we divide that by 100.

359,812.874922 years.

 

[Somewhere_In_The_Clouds]

Let's test that with some simple math, shall we?

The Gulf of Mexico contains 643 quadrillion gallons of water.

36 foot class 350 DI pipe efficiently handles nearly 17,000 gpm at default peak velocity presumption of 5.0 fps.

so

643000000000000000/17000
That means it would take a 36" pipe 3.7823529e+13 minutes.

Let's make that into hours and divide by 60
630392156863 hours.

Ok now its looking a little more manageable. Now let's divide THAT by 24 to get days.
26266339869.3 days.

Hmm. Let's divide that by a little larger number, say 365 in a year?
71,962,574.9843 years.

Oh, but there's 2 26" pipes! So we can divide that by 2.
35981287.4922 years.

35. MILLION. YEARS.

OK so we don't need to empty the whole gulf, I agree. Let's say we want... Oh, 1% of that surface water to move to mitigate a hurricane. so we divide that by 100.

359,812.874922 years.

Did I follow any of that? No. Do I agree? Yes

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Did I follow any of that? No. Do I agree? Yes

DItto that. That AZzy guy, he's a pretty smart cookie. I like to think of myself as smart too, but I only understand about a third of what he says.

 

[azurbanclucker]

In my defense, I was provoked.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

In my defense, I was provoked.

I was annoyed, lol.

 

[Buckeye Amy]

I was annoyed, lol.

You weren't the only one.