MAGNETO HYDRO DYNAMICS (MHD) -- A means of producing electricity directly by moving liquids or gases through a magnetic field. Is this like relationships go?
Glob/Chrom I had a difficult time ignoring one of your posts that had a MHD reference. I found some pages but they had so many numbers to the power of, in the material, I had to pass on those for now. The information about the coal was easy to understand.
I used to subscribe to Scientific American magazine but found it to be a bit challenging and had to re-reads and had to use the dictionary / internet to find the meaning of words and their applications.
I read a little about coal and MHD but wondered if MHD is something that happens in space or is used for space travel or observation. Any basic web sites you can direct me to?
About Love, that is a tough one too.
BB says she loves me but is not happy with a lot of things I do or don't do. Does she want me to be an actor and do things as the way she thinks they should be done? No answers needed. She is pickey, pickey, pickey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sometimes.
Last couple of weeks I repaired the deck and made new stairs. The old stairs were going bad and each tread was a little too far apart for the little dogs. I added a step and decreased the height of each step by almost an inch. The little dogs have an easier time going up and down the back stairs now.
This week I am installing new flooring in what used to be our room. BB has the bedroom across the hall.
I wanted for us to get back to the old bedroom but BB was dragging her feet so I said I was moving her furniture back to our room when I was finished with the floor and walls. Some resistance from BB as expected, what is new?
BB ordered her new dresser and nightstand and I said I was going to not help her negotiate price or help her buy or bring home any more things.
Just prior to this conversation, BB was talking about a relative XX, that spends a lot of money and said XX does it we should too. XX just bought an almost new Lincoln that impressed BB. XX had a really nice 90 something Buick that would have run for another 100,000 miles.
This is when I said if BB wants to follow in XX's footsteps, I would set up two separate accounts and she could do anything with hers, I would even put 60% of the assets in her account because some of our money was hers and asked BB if she considered her mothers money hers alone. No answers were returned. This part of the conversation was posed by me as a "what if" / "what do you think" situation.
Also, yesterday I had my arm around BB and was feeling like ML but BB said it was too late. I withdrew my arm and told BB I was not rejecting her, that it was just emotionally difficult to have the hots/erection/a woody if you guys are Beavis and Butthead fans, and not have much happen so many times. I got the she is too old reply and i need a 35/40 year old woman. I understand her lack of interest but after a while my sexual frustration turns to resentment and then to something like depression or at least a "why try" attitude. I think other people here called it a "don't give a Ship."
I am reading "Tell Me No Lies" and see sometimes I have not been blunt, honest enough, or have let some things go to the point of me being ready to do a mild explosively remark. I don't know if being honest sooner helped BB understand my POV but I did say something sooner and avoided some of my suck-it-up, leads to frustration feelings.
Back to MHD and love. What is the commonality? I don't understand all I need to know about either one of the subjects.
MHD, Love, relationships? Here is a related joke.
Highway to Hawaii
A man was walking along the beach and found a bottle. He looked around and didn't see anyone so he opened it. A genie appeared and thanked the man for letting him out. The genie said, "For your kindness I will grant you a wish, but only one - none of that three wishes jazz, OK?"
The man thought for a minute and said, "Well, I have always wanted to go to Hawaii but have never been able to because I'm afraid of flying, and ships make me claustrophobic and ill. So, I wish for a road to be built from here to Hawaii."
The genie was taken aback a bit, but after some thought said, "No, I don't think I can do that; think about the pilings needed to hold up the highway and how deep they would have to be to reach the bottom of the ocean. Think of all the pavement and steal and concrete that would be needed. I'm sorry, you will have to choose another wish."
The man thought for a minute and then told the genie, "There is one other thing that I have always wanted. I would like to be able to understand women. What makes them laugh and cry, why do they get upset at us so easily, what are their true desires and needs? Basically...what makes them tick?!?"
The genie stared at him and blinked a couple times.
"So, do you want two lanes or four?"
I left the MHD to chrom and the internet. Only guys that watch "The history of paint" on TV would want to know the answers to MHD.
Quote: ------------------------------------ I got the she is too old reply and i need a 35/40 year old woman. ------------------------------------
"Wife, Are you telling me I should go and have an affair? If so, are you giving me permission?"
I am certainly not telling you to cheat, but there are consequences for her choices. She should be made aware of that.
All the best, -NOPkins-
I will ferret out an affair at any opportunity.
-An affair is the embodiment of entitlement, fueled by resentment and lack of respect. -An infidel will remain unreachable so long as their sense of entitlement exceeds their ability to reason.
Magnetohydrodyamics (MHD) is the study of the effects of magnetic fields on fluid dynamics. Primarily it is applied to models of the Sun's interior. We know the Sun is in a fluid state and has a global magnetic field as well as strong, localized magnetic flux tubes (think tubes of very high strength magnetic fields). Most models of the Sun ignore the magnetic effects primarily because they are relativiely weak compared to the overall convective/radiative effects. But it is precisely the magnetism that creates sunspots, prominences, and importantly for us solar flares.
In simplest terms, the interior of the Sun has several different regions in which different energy transport phenomenons (phenomena?) work. In one of these layers, huge convection cells transport energy through mass motion (think boiling pot of water). Also note that since the Sun is in a fluid state, different parts rotate at different speeds. This can cause a lot of twisting of the internal magnetic fields, coiling them up into tubes. At the boundary between convection layer and the one underneath, the coiled magnetic fields are "dragged" to the surface by the convection. Where they break through the surface they create sunspots, prominences, and flares.
As we create a larger and larger human presence in space understanding and hopefully predicting solar flares is crucial. You have already probably heard about solar flares disrupting communications satellites. But there is a far more important issue. If we want to have MANNED missions in space, solar flares, which are bursts of high energy radioactive particles, can be deadly. Being able to predict solar flares will be as crucial to space travel as being able to predict hurricanes and tornados is to ground and air travel.
The reason magnetic fields are mostly ignored is that they are darn difficult to model. Fluid dynamics is difficult already, adding in the effects of magnetic fields (which tend to involve vector cross-products in the equations) makes it REALLY tricky. It is a hot area of computer modeling now in astrophysics.
I hope that helps, feel free to ask about any more details or anything that I wasn't clear on. As far as the love thing, that is far too difficult for my feeble brain to understand.
I have a joke for you in the same vein as yours.
A Husband takes his wife to play her first game of golf. Of course, the wife promptly hacked her first shot right through the window of the biggest house adjacent to the course.
The husband cringed, "I warned you to be careful! Now we'll have to go up there, find the owner, apologize and see how much your lousy drive is going to cost us."
So the couple walked up to the house and knocked on the door. A warm voice said, "Come on in." When they opened the door they saw the damage that was done: glass was all over the place, and a broken antique bottle was lying on its side near the pieces of window glass.
A man reclining on the couch asked, "Are you the people that broke my window?"
"Uh...yeah, sir. We're sure sorry about that," the husband replied.
"Oh, no apology is necessary. Actually I want to thank you. You see, I'm a genie, and I've been trapped in that bottle for a thousand years. Now that you've released me, I'm allowed to grant three wishes. I'll give you each one wish, but if you don't mind, I'll keep the last one for myself."
"Wow, that's great!" the husband said. He pondered a moment and blurted out, "I'd like a million dollars a year for the rest of my life."
"No problem," said the genie. "You've got it, it's the least can do. And I'll guarantee you a long, healthy life!" "And now you, young lady, what do you want?" the genie asked.
"I'd like to own a gorgeous home complete with servants in every country in the world," she said.
"Consider it done," the genie said. "And your homes will always be safe from fire, burglary and natural disasters!"
"And now," the couple asked in unison, "what's your wish, genie?"
"Well, since I've been trapped in that bottle, and haven't been with a woman in more than a thousand years, my wish is to have sex with your wife."
The husband looked at his wife and said, "Gee, honey, you know we both now have a fortune, and all those houses. What do you think?"
She mulled it over for a few moments and said, "You know, you're right. Considering our good fortune, I guess I wouldn't mind, but what about you, honey?"
You know I love you sweetheart," said the husband. I'd do the same for you!"
So the genie and the woman went upstairs where they spent the rest of the afternoon enjoying each other. The genie was insatiable. After about three hours of non-stop sex, the genie rolled over and looked directly into her eyes and asked, How old are you and your husband?"
"Why, we're both 35," she responded breathlessly.
"No Kidding," he said. "Thirty-five years old and both of you still believe in genies?"
"Recollect me darlin, raise me to your lips, two undernourished egos, four rotating hips"
Quote: (which tend to involve vector cross-products in the equations)
O, so the fleedle-tap has to be syncronised with the comax for the overhead gastratory systen to jive with the diabolic conjestiator then??????? I will have to work on that vector cross-products thing Chrom.
I never considered magnet like tubes and their association with sun spots. I know about the the solar flares and the damage they can do. Screws up short wave radio too.
Quote: "No Kidding," he said. "Thirty-five years old and both of you still believe in genies?"
ROTF!!! Precicely! "Not" Wayne's World type of reply.
Vectors are basically multi-dimensional numbers. Velocity, Force, Torque, etc. are all vectors. Anything that has a magnitude (e.g. 30 mph) and a direction (e.g. NE) is a vector. On the other hand, a quantity with no direction is called a scalar (e.g. mass, temperature, time). In many physics equations, you have to multiply vectors. There are two ways, scalar (or dot) products and vector (or cross) product. The difference between the two is the dot product results in a scalar value (no direction) while a cross product results in a vector value (has direction). Dot products are used to determine things like work and energy. Cross products are used for things like torque, and magnetic fields. As a vector is inherently more complex than a scalar, equations with cross products are more complex to solve.
I hope that was helpful and not just a Charlie Brownish Wah Wah Wah Wu-Wah.
"Recollect me darlin, raise me to your lips, two undernourished egos, four rotating hips"
I am not physically into cheating but do have to reign in some of my thoughts.
She comes from a POV that she has biologically aged faster/more than me and if we were from similar biologically pre dispositioned stock, I would have lost interest in sex. BB also suggest I got younger somehow. Trouble is, she has all the relatives that live to be 90 to 100. My relatives die in their late 70 or early 80's.
BB is also 2 years older than me and says "wait till you are XX, you will be/think like I me.
Quote: there are consequences for her choices. She should be made aware of that.
My first consequence has been to do more by myself and will go on vacation without her.
A question for NOP and the morality police related to other friends that hapen to be female in this case: If I stop and see SD in NY, she shows me the effects of past glaciations, we swap some small talk, is that stepping out of bounds? I know BB would see it as something I should not do. This is one question that I have been thinking about. Any opinions?
SD posted her e-mail but I have to decide what is appropriate before I contact her stating what I will do. Wanting to stop and see her part of the country is not the same as doing it.
My inclination is to see her and say nothing to BB but when I run for president of the US, some "muck raker" will show SD and me at McDonalds on their surveillance videotape. (dramatized for the movies) You guys know what happens next, I lose my dog catcher job.
Maybe SD is vegetarian and does not go to Mickey D's. I hear the area is wine country so maybe I have to up my classiness and go some place normal people go for a lunch/dinner. J/K
SD this is about me, not you. You are cool. I hope you are comfortable with what I am asking. I want to run the ideas through my conservative filters, ala my old thread titles "Doing the right thing"
I give my blessing to Lou and SD getting together on Lou's vacation. Of course, I AM the Mary Magdalene of this board, so my permission may not be worth much.
Lou, You have my permission also. I'd just tell BB the truth, after the fact. Besides, as long as you're not bugging her, why should she care? Give her something to think about!!! You are a walking advertisement as to why some men (and women) cheat.
Another thought, if she truly loves you, tell her to put her money where her mouth is.....or her mouth.....never mind!!!!
Lou, Watch out for the slippery slope. Meeting up is potentially playing with fire. I think you at least owe it to BB to let her know what your plans are, and get her permission.
And can I say Jill and I flew to Key West, or should I keep that a secret too. Qoe100, I dont know what the 100 or the Qoe stands for but it if fun to tease you.
Say, while i have your attention Jill, you being the wine expert, maybe you should give me a few wine tips. My wine experience is from 1966 when I was in the Army, the guys fron Chicago's poor side of town, bought something called "Orange Rock." I think it cost about half of what "Mogen David" did at the time. I never touched the stuff. I did buy some Arbor Mist last month at WalMart.
I hope you are comfortable with what I am asking. I want to run the ideas through my conservative filters, ala my old thread titles "Doing the right thing"