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

>On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 18:31:58 -0400, Mike Nute <nilrem112@netzero.com>
>wrote:
>
>>Blue_Eyed_Devil wrote:
>>
>>> On 19 Jul 2003 18:42:00 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?
>>>>
>>>>no, at least not for ants...
>>>>
>>>>but then, if you know where I could find such an algorithm,
>>>>maybe I could extend it to ants?
>>> 
>>> Ants are made from atoms.
>>> 
>>> Bed
>>
>>Ants aren't the only things made from atoms.
>
>Atoms are made of protons, electrons and neutrons which are made from
>quarks!  

The universe is made of cheese...?

BeH