On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 22:46:11 +0200, BeH
<dontsendmenomeat@this.address> wrote:

>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...?

Pepper Jack?

Bed

>
>BeH