Into the tranquility of alt.acme.exploding.newsgroup, Blue_Eyed_Devil
of "MindSpring Enterprises" felt the need to shout thusly:

>On 21 Jul 2003 03:19:35 GMT, danehog@aol.comradical (Dane Martin)
>wrote:
>
>>Caspar wrote:
>>
>>>In article <20030718171803.24535.00000159@mb-m28.aol.com>,
>>>	danehog@aol.comradical (Dane Martin) writes:
>>>> Bed wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>>On 16 Jul 2003 18:39:12 GMT, piotr5@unet.univie.ac.at (Caspar The
>>>>>Unfriendly Ghost) wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>Group, bunch, herd, bevy, flock, gaggle, mess, grundle?
>>>>>>>> >>>>> >> >>>>>>   This
seems a good place to ask.
>>>>>>>> >>>>> >> >>>>>
>>>>>>>> >>>>> >> >>>>>An armada
of *CENSORED*?
>>>>>>>> >>>>> >> >>>>>
>>>>>>>> >>>>> >> >>>>>We don't
say 'that' word here.
>>>>>>>> >>>>> >> >>>>
>>>>>>>> >>>>> >> >>>> without pigs,
there would be no BACON!
>>>>>>>> >>>>> >> >>>
>>>>>>>> >>>>> >> >>>*resists urge to
make fun of Elvis*
>>>>>>>> >>>>> >> >>
>>>>>>>> >>>>> >> >>he stole ronnie reayguns
hair!
>>>>>>>> >>>>> >> >
>>>>>>>> >>>>> >> >And this is a Bad Thing...?
>>>>>>>> >>>>> >> >
>>>>>>>> >>>>> >> >Ronnie Reaygun doesn't deserve
hair. On Sundays.
>>>>>>>> >>>>> >>
>>>>>>>> >>>>> >> I think you should know, I lived
in California when Ronnie was
>>>>>the
>>>>>>>> >>>>> >> Governor and the U.S.A. when
he was President.
>>>>>>>> >>>>> >
>>>>>>>> >>>>> >I was born two days after he was elected.
 And I shot him once.
>>>>>>>> >>>>>
>>>>>>>> >>>>> You are destined for greater things. 
Do you know how to apply
>>>>>>>> >>>>> herbicide?
>>>>>>>> >>>>
>>>>>>>> >>>> I can make ants and bananananas explode.
>>>>>>>> >>>>
>>>>>>>> >>>
>>>>>>>> >>> How do you make ants explode?
>>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>>> >>with a magnification-glass of course!
>>>>>>>> >>you know, they just grow bigger and bigger till they
explode...
>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>> > Wouldn't they implode?  They only have so much mass and
as they grow
>>>>>>>> > bigger the mass is spread thinner and thinner until they
collapse
>>>>>>>> > calamitously.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> and why do you think mass has anything to do with the difference
>>>>>>>> between internal and external pressure or the amount of
>>>>>>>> wide-spreadedness some matter can sustain till it gets
>>>>>>>> ripped apart? IMHO it's the matter which matters, and
>>>>>>>> not any kind of "weight" the whole body would have. am
>>>>>>>> I wrong that no general-purpose formula does exist which
>>>>>>>> would only depend on mass and not on material, and which
>>>>>>>> would tell when something is about to get ripped apart?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Mass is a measure of the matter in something.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Weight is a product of mass and an acceleration (/gravity).
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> So, something's density is its mass over its volume, and
>>>>>>> so on.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I think that's what you're asking?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>no, it doesn't tell me when and where things break/explode...
>>>>>
>>>>>Isn't there a formula or algorithm for that?
>>>> 
>>>> When I become president, the word "algorithm" won't exist.
>>>
>>>you mean it in the sense as bush removed the word
>>>"nuclear" from america's vocabulary?
>>>
>>>just keep in mind that without "algorithm" all
>>>programmers wouldn't know what to do, and those
>>>scientists telling them what to do would be
>>>unemployed...
>>
>><artificially uneducated>
>>
>>Sure, but now that cheese, comic books, and computer mice have been invented,
>>there is no need for inventors...
>>
>>To hell with them, *I* say!
>>
>></artificially uneducated>
>
>Scientists are still needed!  Who else will invent Chilpoltle
>cheez-whiz?

Erm... no-one. Thank Dog.

BeH