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Nice People Thread Number 10 -the official residence of Nice People
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Hope you, Mrs Gen and the Gen-lets are all managing OK....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0
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PasturesNew wrote: »Stupid question for the scientists.... feel free to laugh your socks off.
If I have a 10 watt bulb ..... and I place it in front of a mirror, does that increase the light in the room? And, if so, what if there were 10 mirrors?
Do mirrors increase light, as it's reflected back instead of just disappearing?
A mirror will absorb less light than a painted wall so the room will be brighter as more light is reflected back into the room. If the wall was painted white instead, the room would be slightly darker as slightly less light would be reflected back. A Matt black wall would absorb most of the light so the room would be darker. The light energy being absorbed by the wall would be converted to heat (conservation of energy) so the mirrored wall would be marginally cooler and the black wall warmer.
That's where my rusty physics gets me anyway. Thanks Mr Newton!0 -
neverdespairgirl wrote: »Hope you, Mrs Gen and the Gen-lets are all managing OK.
Hi NDG. We're getting along ok. I'll reply to your PM when I get a sec.
Eldest has gone on cub camp: 3,500 cubs from across NSW all on camp together!!!0 -
Hi NDG. We're getting along ok. I'll reply to your PM when I get a sec.
Eldest has gone on cub camp: 3,500 cubs from across NSW all on camp together!!!
No rush at all, a PM is a communication, not a demand (-:
Rather the camp organisers than me, 3,500 8 year olds sounds merry hell!...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
If I remember rightly, when my sister was 8 her main present was an Etch a Sketch.
My eldest is 8 and it's amazing the number of his contemporaries that have an iPad and a icomputer and a PS4 & an Xbox One. It's not just one: several of his mates have got $000s worth of electronics.0 -
Isaac muttered about lots of his mates having an ipad, and he'd quite like one too, for Christmas. He's not spinning a line, most of his classmates do indeed have their very own ipads.
We choked down our initial, "not bleedin' likely, sunshine!" response and went instead for the measured chat - did he know how much they cost? What would he actually want to do on it? What could he do on it that he couldn't do on the normal desktop he has? After answering all those questions, he decided it was a waste of money and he'd rather have a dressing gown with dinosaurs on it and the Walking With Beasts DVD instead. So he got them....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »If I remember rightly, when my sister was 8 her main present was an Etch a Sketch.
I remember them!
The great thing about them was.....well nothing really!
The mirror thing got me thinking, and now I'm a bit puzzled.. Metals and glass feel cooler than everything else to me. I've always understood that to be an illusion, as metals will "suck" the heat out from your skin by virtue of being good heat conductors.
But glass isn't, hence the thin glass at the base of thermometers. Then it struck me that glass can only warm by conduction/convenction and wouldn't absorb heat radiation. Now I'm wondering if they'd actually be really cooler than everything in their surroundings by not absorbing heat radiation from their surroundings and might be objectively cooler.
Maybe Lydia can solve this!:)There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0 -
What about stones, Zag? Don't they feel cooler than most things, such as wood?...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0
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neverdespairgirl wrote: »What about stones, Zag? Don't they feel cooler than most things, such as wood?
Now you've got me! But I'm not so sure they feel as cold as glass or metal. I wonder if you can confuse texture with tgemperature in the sense that smooth things will feel colder but coarse things less so if only for the reason that smooth things have more surface to conduct heat away. Fabrics like fur wouldn't, I suppose.There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0 -
A mirror will absorb less light than a painted wall so the room will be brighter as more light is reflected back into the room. If the wall was painted white instead, the room would be slightly darker as slightly less light would be reflected back. A Matt black wall would absorb most of the light so the room would be darker. The light energy being absorbed by the wall would be converted to heat (conservation of energy) so the mirrored wall would be marginally cooler and the black wall warmer.
That's where my rusty physics gets me anyway. Thanks Mr Newton!
Well done!neverdespairgirl wrote: »Isaac muttered about lots of his mates having an ipad, and he'd quite like one too, for Christmas. He's not spinning a line, most of his classmates do indeed have their very own ipads.
We choked down our initial, "not bleedin' likely, sunshine!" response and went instead for the measured chat - did he know how much they cost? What would he actually want to do on it? What could he do on it that he couldn't do on the normal desktop he has? After answering all those questions, he decided it was a waste of money and he'd rather have a dressing gown with dinosaurs on it and the Walking With Beasts DVD instead. So he got them.
What a sensible boy.
Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0
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