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Date:      Fri, 29 May 2009 11:03:27 -0400
From:      Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>
To:        RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: What is this forum for?
Message-ID:  <20090529150327.GA63687@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20090528234329.58b88bb1@gumby.homeunix.com>
References:  <b79ecaef0905281004h7a1f40cvb65f005d9ebe5318@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905282136080.61809@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <70C0964126D66F458E688618E1CD008A0793EDE2@WADPEXV0.waddell.com> <20090528165453.1a24104a.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905282300210.62803@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20090528171259.9bb60034.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905282316500.63168@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <70C0964126D66F458E688618E1CD008A0793EDEF@WADPEXV0.waddell.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905282336030.63420@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20090528234329.58b88bb1@gumby.homeunix.com>

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On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 11:43:29PM +0100, RW wrote:

> On Thu, 28 May 2009 23:38:46 +0200 (CEST)
> Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:
> 
> 
> > i repeated what i read recently about ICE ON ARCTIC SEA melting that
> > will flood.
> > 
> > Even knowledge from primary school physics and no single calculation
> > is enough to prove that water level will not change at all.
> 
> Even for you this is a new low. When you learned about Archimedes
> principle did they not teach you about thermal expansion - or did you
> just assume that as the ice melts everything remains at the same
> temperature. 

And, what about the huge amount of water that is currently sequestered 
in ice above sea level - on 'dry' land?   Where will it go?

////jerry


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