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Default Hard/Soft Water

On Jan 15, 5:11*pm, "Eisboch" wrote:
"D.Duck" wrote in message

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"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


I think it's Giganews. *Same thing here. *I posted a response shortly after
Tom and it never showed up, yet he answered it.

Eisboch


Sounds like Giganews is gigging its subscribers.