"DSK" wrote in message .. .
| "Thom Stewart" wrote
| | Can't Help It Paladin,
| |
| | If you're so Damn Smart, why are you rambling on about language and
| | boiling under the heading of: "USELESS PROPELLER!" That's stupid!
|
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| Nail... Hammer...
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| Paladin wrote:
| You and most others here demonstrate shallowness of thinking. What's stupid
| is to expect to even attempt to discuss the utility or uselessness of propellers
| if folks are speaking different languages. And, mark my word, unless folks
| can agree on word definitions they are speaking different languages.
|
| 1) The discussion media here is the written word.
| 2) Written words have specific and agreed upon meanings.
| 3) Unless those meanings are understood clearly by all concerned discussion is
| confusing and meaningless.
| 4) I'm "rambling on about language and boiling" because the entire thread went the
| wrong direction because of confusion about the meaning of words.
| 5) The only way to get things back on track is to agree on commonly accepted
| definitions of the word "boil" in this case.
|
| Among some people, it is "commonly accepted" that the world
| is flat. Does that make it so?

Too stupid an analogy to merit comment...

|
| Your attempt to describe cavitation using a dictionary is
| just plain dumb.

Your thinking that's what I'm doing is just plain dumber...

One boils water by adding heat.

One doesn't boil water by reducing pressure. The verb
"to boil" simply does not apply to the vaporization of
water by reducing pressure. It follows that any process
that vaporizes water by heating it can correctly be said
to be boiling the water. Any process that vaporizes water
by lowering pressure cannot be said to be boiling water
by definition. It can only be said that lowering pressure
vaporizes water.

|
| Here is a dictionary that defines "boil" perfectly, at least
| with regard to you personally:
| http://www.medterms.com/script/main/...rticlekey=2498

Duh? Too dumb to differentiate between a noun and a verb?
You must be one of those 8th grade education individuals I
mentioned.

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|
|
| If you'll recall Gilligan's original reply it stated something to the effect
| that cavitation happens because the prop boils the water.
|
| "Something to the effect"??
| This is the internet. Why not quote his post exactly, unless
| you are either too stupid to figure out how, or have a
| spurious agenda to conceal his actual statement.

Are you too stupid to follow the thread back and read it yourself?
Why should I do your research for you?

|
|
|
| ... I say any prop
| that boils water is useless as a prop
|
| If that were all it did, then you'd be totally correct.
| However, under the specific circumstances, any propellor
| will boil water.

The specific circumstances would have to be enough electricity
running through the prop to heat it up like the element in an
electric water heater.

|
| When people who live in the mountains make their tea and/or
| coffee, do they boil their water or does the lower
| atmospheric pressure mean that they are "vaporizing" it?

They are adding heat only so they are boiling it. The lower
atmospheric pressure only means they are able to boil water
usling fewer BTUs because the boiling point temp is lowered.

|
| A stove is a device for transferring energy from an outside
| source into the food. A propellor is a device for
| transferring energy from the boat's engine into the water.
| Two devices for transferring energy, surely they can both be
| said to "boil" things.


They cannot! The definition of the verb "to boil" precludes it.

Paladin

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