Thirsty McDrinksalot - you're absolutely right. There are a lot of other things that's weird about water (like I mentioned at the end of the article).
You mentioned water is a terrible conductor of electricity. Absolutely right, pure water doesn't conduct electricity. What's even weirder is that under certain conditions, water auto-ionizes.
Another thing that is weird is the formation of ordered water like clathrate hydrate.
The list goes on and on - but I think most people would get bored (or too boggled) past 5 things. Five is the new Ten now on the list-o-verse! ;)
Re: homeopathy. Actually, I've always thought that homeopathy is bunkum. If you think about it, if water has "memory" than it remembers a lot of things other than the dissolved particles that homeopaths want it to "remember." It'll remember the copper in the pipes, and before that all the nasty stuff used to purify it, etc. etc.
I think the problem laid in how I worded the first sentence - I hope that it reads better now.
Re: "convention" - you're right. That was a typo. It should be "convection."
Dave Swaney - if you would elaborate on which point I don't know what I'm talking about, I can respond in a more intelligent manner. BTW, my science background training is PhD in biochemistry.
I'm not sure that union salaries are to blame - high salaries can be justified by high productivity. But union work rules *do* impact the company's day-to-day operation negatively.
For instance, Detroit's union-plant daily absenteeism (meaning employees that just don't report to work) runs about 10% as compared to non-union plants's 2%. When one in ten of your workers just don't show up and can't get disciplined because of it, then of course you're going to run into problems as a company ...
@doubter - data is from US Department of Energy, prepared for the Office of Naval Petroleum and Oil Shale Reserves / Office of Deputy Assistant Secretary for Petroleum Reserves. If you look closer, decline in petroleum production occurred before the black line.
You mentioned water is a terrible conductor of electricity. Absolutely right, pure water doesn't conduct electricity. What's even weirder is that under certain conditions, water auto-ionizes.
Another thing that is weird is the formation of ordered water like clathrate hydrate.
The list goes on and on - but I think most people would get bored (or too boggled) past 5 things. Five is the new Ten now on the list-o-verse! ;)
I think the problem laid in how I worded the first sentence - I hope that it reads better now.
Re: "convention" - you're right. That was a typo. It should be "convection."
Dave Swaney - if you would elaborate on which point I don't know what I'm talking about, I can respond in a more intelligent manner. BTW, my science background training is PhD in biochemistry.
For instance, Detroit's union-plant daily absenteeism (meaning employees that just don't report to work) runs about 10% as compared to non-union plants's 2%. When one in ten of your workers just don't show up and can't get disciplined because of it, then of course you're going to run into problems as a company ...