Re: The things people build out of PVC nowadays...

Andrew Nicholson <andrewn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> What all this has to do with flooding satellite dishes is left as an
> exercise for the PFY. Fluid mechanics suck. The person who said
> the traffic flow was like fluid in a pipe had no idea what he was
> talking about.

Ah, but he did. Traffic is a _compressible_ fluid, and you wind up
with turbulence, shock waves, standing waves, traveling waves, and
other unexpected phenomena. It's even worse than ordinary gases, since
the particles in traffic occasionally do collide in the pipe, and stop
in such a way as to block the particles behind them. Think of them as
instantaneously-appearing obstacles.

The traffic engineers (or in-juh-nears) at work do Black Art, and some
of them seem to talk the Black Speech as well.

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> Every time someone calls Java a programming language a fairy dies?
>From frustration, if nothing else.
DaZZa, in a.t-s.r
.

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