dafey v4.0

T-Dizzle hitting on Cam Carmen

Another run, another epic drop for Trucido…WTF

I don’t want to turn this into a “why I think Obama is going to ruin the country and bankrupt America” post, but I think the article below is informative on where exactly taxpayers’ $800,000,000,000 are going. Keep in mind that this bill passed the house with only 1 day of deliberation and that every GOP member and 11 Dems voted against it. Ben Stein was on CNN earlier-he said that there are 400,000 unemployed Americans right now and that instead of using this money on such things as STD research, we could instead give each of these unemployed Americans $200,000.

Looks like the Democrat-controlled House of Reps finally got some money they can spend/waste.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/01/28/special-groups-line-piece-stimulus/

Last night was our first guild heroic…except for that warlock doing 40% of the damage, our little excursion into UK was good and ended with Trucdio getting some epic pants.

Keep in mind that UK is probably the easiest on this list…so let’s not get cocky. The goal is for the DPS to be doing 2000 dps. The healer to have 1500+ Healing. BTW: Were still short one DPS for a full guild run!

1. Utgarde Keep
2. Gun’Drak
3. Drak’tharon Keep
4. Violet Hold
5. CoT Stratholme
6. Nexus
7. Oculus
8. Hall of Lighting
9. Old Kingdom
10. AzN
11. Halls Of Stone
12. Utgarde Pinnacle

On another note, I’ve deleted Trang Le from the author list (who is, I don’t know)

Here is how it happens.

“At first, I thought that the answer to this question was obvious. However, after further thought and investigation, I realized that there are several processes at work all of varying degrees of significance. The tough thing to decide is probably which process is most significant.

A few important facts to note in analyzing this problem.

1. Beer bottles/cans and soda bottles/cans are pressurized.
2. They all contain solutes in the solvent, water.
3. Both contain the solute CO2, carbon dioxide.

Most solutes will lower the freezing point of solvents when they are combined into a homogeneous mixture. In this case, we have carbon dioxide, the solute, dissolved into water, the solvent. Dissolved carbon dioxide in water will, in fact, lower the freezing point of the solution below 0 C.

For beer, there are a few more solutes than carbon dioxide such as alcohol and various salts, but they all act to lower the freezing point of the solution relative to that of water. I read that -0.42 * (percent alcohol by volume) degrees C is accurate. That is, 1 percent of alcohol dissolved in water will lower the freezing point by 0.42 C and the relationship is linear. (I won’t really back this up because I didn’t get access to the journal article that finds this. The information is out there, though.)

That said, the pressurized bottles and cans keep the carbon dioxide in the solution as the bottles and cans are cooled. This in turn lowers the freezing point of the solution below that of water 0 C. For cream soda, it’s about -10 C. If the freezer is cool enough, this solution will freeze too. But since most household freezers are kept around 0 C, this tends not to happen. When the bottle is opened, there is a pressure differential between the outside environment and inside the bottle. Typically bottles are pressurized around 5 atmospheres (http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/gen01/gen01625.htm). So as the pressure inside the bottle equilibrates with the environment, it lowers, thereby releasing carbon dioxide from the solution.* This has a three-pronged effect.

(1) First dissolved solute leaves the solution thereby *raising* its freezing temperature.

(2) Second the gaseous bubbles of carbon dioxide forming in the solution expand adiabatically (to very good approximation) and under a constant pressure for the solution. Therefore, the escaping gas bubbles temperatures increase, while the solution cools. (T_initial/V_initial = T_final/V_final)

(3) Thirdly, the escaping bubbles agitate the now supercooled solution providing for nucleation sites for crystal growth.**

*This is basic chemistry. If a gas is in contact with an incompressible liquid, and the pressure on the gas is increased, more gas is going to be able to stay in solution with the liquid at equilibrium.

**This probably warrants more explanation. A solution is called supercooled when its temperature is below its freezing point yet remains a liquid. Similarly, a solution is called superheated when its temperature is above its boiling point yet still a liquid. The beer or soda is essentially supercooled after the carbon dioxide leaves the solution and it doesn’t freeze. All crystallization processes (of which water freezing is one) require a nucleation point; some place to begin. The carbon dioxide bubbles leaving solution are generating these nucleation points for crystal growth. Suspended particles in solution can provide nucleation sites, but these tend not to be present in soda and beer. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleation)

When just shaking the can or bottle without having opened it, the agitation increases the entropy of the solution thereby releasing carbon dioxide sufficiently so that (1), (2), and (3) may also occur.

Lastly, I used the ideal gas law PV = nRT and the fact that the beer and soda are very good approximations to incompressible fluids to verify this. I believe for water it takes 135 atm to lower its freezing point by 1 C, so incompressible. So the math is there, and I’d be happy to discuss it.” - mobiusStrip

Here’s the website: http://askville.amazon.com/put-sealed-drink-freezer-beer-coke-freeze-opened-shook/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=4954877

Hello dafey. I arrived in Berlin last night around 5pm. Berlin is a nice city, no real “downtown” area but many different districts. Berlin is very modern, most buildings are new and built with steel and glass. Most people speak and almost everyone can understand english. I am using the internet at the mall and there are kids next to me. I want to punch them. We are wasting time because we are seeing a Will Smith’s 7 pounds here at 7<ö45pm. I did not buy a man purse, in case you guys were wondering…ummm…it’s cold here and the girls are good looking. I love you all.

This will be a short post, i have to pay 2 czech crowns/min for the internet. Prague is beautiful. We went to a hockey game two nights ago and we went to an orchestra performance last night. Both were great. I have pics of both that i will post when i get home. I love and miss you all.

Love,

Gmaster

It’s tough, I know. To make things easier…I found this cool website that shows movie trailers in HD.

Here is the gayest movie ever…that I would of course, never see.

OMG…i can’t stand the winter months!!!

Hello everyone!

Happy New Year!!! This is G writing all of you letting you know that I am alive and well. I hope you all had a great new years! New Years in the Krakow Town Square was ridiculously awesome! Over 100,000 people dancing and getting crunk to polish pop music-i have pics and videos, but will have to wait a while before posting them. My trip thus far has been fun, lots of traveling on trains (15hours) and planes (8.5hours).

We arrived in Frankfurt, Germany on 29 Jan and then took a train from there to Dresden (6 hours), Germany and from Dresden to Prague Czech Republic (2.5 hours), where we stayed the first night. On 30 Jan we took a quick 8 hour train ride from Prague to Krakow, Poland, where i have been since. Krakow is a badass city, so much history and old-ass buildings. Most of the buildings in old town date back to the 1200s. Krakow is to Poland as Boston is to the US. Krakow is a university town with loads of history. Copernicus and Pope John Paul the II attended Jagiellonia University, which is located in the old town.The town square in Krakow is the largest in Europe. Many of the younger people here can speak english well. We plan on taking it easy today and traveling out to Auschwitz tomorrow. Well, thats all for now.

Take care BBA, i love you.

Gmaster