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Irwell
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| Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 6:01 pm
Post subject: How big is a blob. |
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BBC Weatherman. 'There are a few blobs of rain and cloud
over South East Asia'. One of the blobs stretched from Ceylon to Bombay.
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John Seeliger
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| Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 6:01 pm
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"Irwell" <irwell@highstream.net> wrote in message
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| Quote: | BBC Weatherman. 'There are a few blobs of rain and cloud
over South East Asia'. One of the blobs stretched from Ceylon to Bombay.
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As big is the blob that ate Toykyo and much bigger. They are like reptile
in that they continue to grow their entire life, provided they don't undergo
mitosis. Think how big the Great Red Spot on Jupiter is or how the very
planets or stars are referred to as blobs of matter or gas at the time of
coalescence/condensation/formation. |
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Qp10qp
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| Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 9:01 pm
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| Quote: | Subject: How big is a blob.
BBC Weatherman. 'There are a few blobs of rain and cloud
over South East Asia'. One of the blobs stretched from Ceylon to Bombay.
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The weatherman has a small map before him on which a rampaging typhoon off the
coast of India appears no bigger than the blob of salad cream he squirted on
his radishes at lunch break. In practice that doesn't matter much, because most
Bombay boat owners are presumably smarter than to say "hey, the BBC says
there's only a single blob of rain today so lets take our girlfriends out on
balsa wood punts in flimsy clothing".
But I take your point.
Peasemarch.
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Jim Ward
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| Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 12:00 am
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On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 10:22:38 -0600, "John Seeliger"
| Quote: | As big is the blob that ate Toykyo and much bigger. They are like reptile
in that they continue to grow their entire life, provided they don't undergo
mitosis. Think how big the Great Red Spot on Jupiter is or how the very
planets or stars are referred to as blobs of matter or gas at the time of
coalescence/condensation/formation.
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If a blob freezes, does it become a lump? |
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Mark Brader
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| Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 12:00 am
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In some technical contexts, a blob is a "Binary Large OBject".
How large is large?
--
Mark Brader "[It] was the kind of town where they spell
Toronto trouble TRUBIL, and if you try to correct them,
msb@vex.net they kill you." -- Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid |
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John Varela
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| Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 12:01 am
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On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 15:48:18 UTC, Irwell <irwell@highstream.net> wrote:
| Quote: | BBC Weatherman. 'There are a few blobs of rain and cloud
over South East Asia'. One of the blobs stretched from Ceylon to Bombay.
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It's easy to be dismissive of bad weather that's somewhere else. I recall
many years ago a weather man in Boston broadcast that the storm was passing
over and was of no further concern because it would just blow itself out over
the Maritimes. This elicited indignant comment from Nova Scotia and PEI.
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John Varela
(Trade "OLD" lamps for "NEW" for email.)
I apologize for munging the address but the spam was too much. |
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raymond o'hara
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| Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 9:00 pm
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"John Varela" <OLDlamps@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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| Quote: | On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 15:48:18 UTC, Irwell <irwell@highstream.net> wrote:
BBC Weatherman. 'There are a few blobs of rain and cloud
over South East Asia'. One of the blobs stretched from Ceylon to Bombay.
It's easy to be dismissive of bad weather that's somewhere else. I recall
many years ago a weather man in Boston broadcast that the storm was
passing
over and was of no further concern because it would just blow itself out
over
the Maritimes. This elicited indignant comment from Nova Scotia and PEI.
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Do you get Boston TV in the Maritimes? I have trouble getting it in NH,
when I'm on vaction in the summer. Are you concerned by weather that can no
longer effect you? |
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Bill Bonde ( ``And the La
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| Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2004 2:03 am
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Irwell wrote:
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Re: How big is a blob.
Depends on how far you are into that first feature flick starring Steve |
McQueen.
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"Throw me that lipstick, darling, I wanna redo my stigmata."
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John Varela
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| Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2004 10:00 pm
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On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 18:48:41 UTC, "raymond o'hara" <reoh@comcast.net> wrote:
| Quote: | It's easy to be dismissive of bad weather that's somewhere else. I recall
many years ago a weather man in Boston broadcast that the storm was
passing
over and was of no further concern because it would just blow itself out
over
the Maritimes. This elicited indignant comment from Nova Scotia and PEI.
Do you get Boston TV in the Maritimes?
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I was in Boston at the time, or Stoneham to be more precise.
| Quote: | I have trouble getting it in NH,
when I'm on vaction in the summer.
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The incident occurred over 40 years ago, so I may misremember. It may have
been some Canadians resident in Boston writing letters to the newspaper that I
recall.
| Quote: | Are you concerned by weather that can no
longer effect you?
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No. That's what I said in my first sentence in the quotation above. I'll add
that it's also easy to be dismissive of earthquakes, volcanoes, famines, and
wars that are somewhere else. And, ObAUE, the word you wanted was affect.
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John Varela
(Trade "OLD" lamps for "NEW" for email.)
I apologize for munging the address but the spam was too much. |
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