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Weird Work Moments

  • Sep. 30th, 2008 at 2:15 PM
phoenix
Every once in a while, work yields strange moments.

Like this one...

Did you know that your hair has no specific gravity? Or close to none? This comes from one of my coworkers as he asks me for a piece of my hair so he can make a rig for measuring specific gravity.

What's funnier... I ended up making it myself. My eyes are better than his.

*smiles* Made me laugh, really...

"So, honey, how was work?"

"It was interesting. I made a specific gravity rig out of my hair. How was your day?"

*shakes her head*

The above brought to you by the word 'surreal' and the letters H and J.

Raen.
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[info]geminiknight wrote:
Sep. 30th, 2008 08:40 pm (UTC)
The specific gravity of water is 8.337.

That's my contribution to the moment of science. ;)
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[info]raenshadoe wrote:
Sep. 30th, 2008 09:40 pm (UTC)
Heh. I haven't learned how to do the specific gravity thing yet. I've done it before... but the details of it escape my memory. :)
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[info]geminiknight wrote:
Oct. 1st, 2008 12:39 am (UTC)
I screwed it up anywho.. water has a specific gravity of 1, which means it weighs 8.337 pounds per gallon. You can use that comparison to figure out weights of other liquid volumes, among other things. :)
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[info]chapel_of_words wrote:
Sep. 30th, 2008 09:02 pm (UTC)
Chuck Norris doesn't *measure* gravity, he round house kicks that law of nature into shape and *tells* it how it is.

Tim C.
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[info]raenshadoe wrote:
Sep. 30th, 2008 09:39 pm (UTC)
LOL!!!!
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[info]pollyeaa wrote:
Oct. 1st, 2008 11:59 am (UTC)
I think hair has around a 2.8-2.9 g/cm^3 density actually.

Aaron
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