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  1. Gravity keeps all the water and sand onto the planet's surface and prevents it from going out into space. ;)

     

    Think about it, if you increase gravity thousands of times above normal, the most buoyant thing is going to crash downwards. ;)

     

    ~SB~

    Your first sentence -- that's absolutely correct. Don't forget that that's the same gravity that causes water pressure, the effect of water's "piling up on itself." The box on the bottom of a tower of boxes is the one that gets squeezed the most. So it is with the water at the bottom of the ocean. It gets squeezed, and the sqeezing gets gradually less intense as you go toward the surface. You know how you can squeeze a sliver out of your skin? The water squeezes objects in it to places of lower pressure, and since the pressure gradient gets less intense upward, that's what causes objects to float up to the point at which their weight and the squeezing force are in equilibrium -- and that point isn't always at the surface, it can be at some point below. Where that point is depends on density.

     

    You make it sound as if bouyancy equals weight, but they aren't the same thing. At some point, gravity could win over on an extremely bouyant object, but it would have to be ridiculously powerful. Like putting out a house fire with a lawn sprinkler.

  2. Although analyse is etymologically more correct than analyse, analyze isn't entirely divergent from the formation of words derived from Greek. Often verbs extracted from ancient Greek retain an "-izo" suffix. It's where we get the "-ize" endings on many of our words. So although analyse keeps the proper stem of the verb (I'm guessing:) "analuo," analyze is still recognizably Greek. :shrugs:

  3. All of my pieces are sorted into small plastic drawers according to shape. For example, all the 2x2 bricks go stacked with each other in one drawer, all the 2x3 roof pieces get their own, etc. I arrange the drawers according to how their content relates. So all the slant piecesare by each other, all the bricks are by each other, all the 1/3 plates are by each other, etc. Of course, not every single shape gets its own drawer; some of the related ones share. I have three sets of drawers, too. So all of the more basic pieces like bricks, slants, plates, etc. are collected in their own drawer. Another drawer contains more "particle" pieces like the one-stud cylinder pieces, those little clasp connectors, stuff like that. And the third drawer has more functioning things like hinges and wheels. So there's structure, aesthetic, and functionality.

  4. I know. People say, "Even if the game is boring [which it usually does, since its really the games leading up to the Super Bowl that are most climactic], I like to watch the funny commercials with animals and beer jokes in them." And you know what? Every single super bowl commerical -- all the good ones, all the stupid ones -- is going to be put up on video sites at least five times over by people who think they can earn a living recording this stuff and posting it online for people's amusement.

     

    This is the kind of wisdom I learn in history class.

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