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Default Hard/Soft Water

D.Duck wrote:
"Tom Francis - SWSports" wrote in
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On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:48:20 -0500, "D.Duck" wrote:

Concerning the recent crash one of the TV commentators said that it was
better for the airplanes survivability that the water in the Hudson is
cold
and not warm. the reason he said is that cold water is *harder* than warm
water and made for better ditching conditions.

Any truth to this.

No - cold water is less dense than warm water.

That's why ice floats.


I guess that's why the plane is floating. 8)

This is really strange. You answered my post and my post hasn't even
appeared on my news service (Giga News)yet. I made the post 65 minutes ago.

Can you tell me what time stamp in on my original post. Thanks





Tom is an extraterrestrial. The space-time continuum does not apply to
him. But it does apply to ducks.