"Eisboch" wrote in message
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"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

If you ever see this, here is the reply I got from Giga News when I inquired
about poor performance. I think it's something else beside "heavy posting".

Thank you for contacting Giganews Technical Support!

Due to very heavy posting, the speed with which posts are propagating has
decreased. I apologize for any inconvenience this has caused. The post
speeds should be back to normal shortly.

Thank you for your patience and cooperation.

--
Jonathan
Giganews Support