Here meaning there or here meaning here ?

 

36fan, thanks as well.

so it seems that what you need is,

oxygen on its own (out of the air around us). fuel (some form of carbon), & friction (heat) to create fire.

just as a side note, air is not a basic element ( but it supplies the oxygen) just like water is not a basic element, but the air around us seems to work pretty well with flame.

thats nice, and i will look closer at that link when i get home, i am curious to actually see what the flame is. is it the result of seperating the carbon from whatever other chemicals its bonded too? is it the oxygen bonding to the carbon and turning to gas?

no biggie, just something to think about, and thanks for taking the time to answer.

 

Your quest for knowledge is noble, grasshoppa.

Combustion

Hope you did well in math class....

 

yes, I drive 70 and more with the windows down... until it's too cold or just to hot...

 

Members on this messageboard.

 

Me too, (in the summer)
I boogie down the highway with windows down, side windows popped open, rear window open, and sunroof fully open.
I like the wind in my hair and the bugs in my teeth, LOL

I can't do it when my wife is with me cuz she always biatches about how the wind messes her hair.
(This is coming from someone who wants a Miata convertable, LOL)

 

Here is one thing I do know about Fire, it hurts like a bitch when it touches your freaking body...

 

why is time not measured in metric? almost every unit of measurement has a metric equivalent... except time ( and rotational degress I guess)

 

For the same reason it is not measured in Base 10 decimal...

 

Woo, big subject.
The Sumerians were the first known timekeepers although few records exist.
In about 5000 B.C. they were using a calendar that divided the year up into 12, 30 day months and the day into 12 periods equivalent into 2 hours.
The ancient Egyptians used sundials that were actually divided into 10 periods but they also included 2 Twighlight hours. at nightime, they used water clocks.
Their first calendars were based on the phases of the moon but later on devised a calendar based on the fact that Sirius rose next to the sun every 365 days when the Nile flooded.
Later, an astronomer called Andronikos built a giant mechanical clock called the Horologian in Athens (B.C. I think) which was divided into 24.
Not much change till the 1600's when Galileo and Huuygens came up with using pendulums for accurate timekeeping.
In the 1700's Jon Harrison invented a mechanical chronometer that could keep time accurate to one fifth of a second per day on board a rolling ship which was essential to determine Longitude.

 

I understand that there is history in how time keepinmg got to where it it... simialr to other measures of mass, velocity, distance etc.

Almost all measures have since been worked back to have a metric or SI equivalent.

Why in the past 300 years has no one tried to do this for time?

 

Don't think that no one thought of it, but I don't think it will go over too well in a country that only uses the metric system to describe the size of a drug bust (300 kilos), or the size of a soda (2 liter bottle).

Metric Time

 

From the “Metric site above”


French Revolutionary Metric Time

10 metric hours in a day
100 metric minutes in a metric hour
100 metric seconds in a metric minute
10 days in metric week (called decade)

I tell you the French are so damn screwed up. There system would never work. 10 days in a metric week…

I can’t believe the most lazy country in the world has come up with almost twice the days for one normal week

The French, one more reason we should fund Germany to overrun them again…

 

and when Germany overruns them again guess who they will claim are their best friends in the world?

US and UK. Same ones that have bailed them out twice.

 

If is was all my choice I would not be bailing the French out rather I would sit back and