Heaven: When Google Fails You: The 2018 General Question Thread

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  • Lily PadLily Pad Shipmate
    Yes, the chlorine does evaporate. I usually put an open pitcher into the fridge each evening and then have drinking water for the next day.
  • HuiaHuia Shipmate
    Thanks BroJames - I've moved it into a cupboard in case the resident cat thinks it's her new water bowl. She likes them deep so she can dip her paw into them.That would not improve the flavour at all.
    :confounded:
  • HuiaHuia Shipmate
    Oops - thanks Lilypad.
  • Golden KeyGolden Key Shipmate
    Huia--

    Maybe water filters? I haven't used them; but there are kinds you screw onto the faucet, and filtered pitchers you fill from the tap. If you poke around online, there might be some DIY version. (Maybe small charcoal (like for plants and aquariums) and coffee filters?)

    FWIW. Good luck!
  • Curiosity killedCuriosity killed Shipmate
    edited May 2018
    There are filter jugs that you can use and leave the water in to allow the chlorine to dissipate. Looking at the shapes, the jugs are narrower at the bottom than at the top, which would help. Checking the site, there's even a box with a tap you can put in the fridge.
  • KarlLBKarlLB Shipmate
    Boiling it and letting it cool would also work. We've always had chlorinated water; you get used to it.
  • SparrowSparrow Shipmate
    Rossweisse wrote: »
    No, the Queen doesn't own the black swans, which are Australian imports. In fact, that's why there are black swans in Britain: Other people want to own swans, too, but she's got a lock on the white ones.

    She still doesn't own 'em all, which is why we have the delightful ceremony of Swan Upping on the Thames every year to catch and identify the ones that belong to her.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swan_Upping


  • HuiaHuia Shipmate
    edited May 2018
    KarlLB wrote: »
    Boiling it and letting it cool would also work. We've always had chlorinated water; you get used to it.

    I lived with it from my teen years until I moved here about 28 years ago, and I hate it even more than I did then. I hope I don't have to get used to it as the City Council claims it is a temporary measure for a year.

    There is a lot of opposition even to having it as a trial, Christchurch people have always been proud of the water quality here, but a town up north had problems with it's water supply and a lot of people were very ill. I don't like it being chlorinated, but I don't oppose it.

    Long term I'm planning to ask the plumber the cost of fitting a filter to the water intake, but short term I'm getting a jug with a water filter and leaving water standing overnight as these are the cheapest options.

    Thanks for all the responses.
  • TwilightTwilight Shipmate
    I love our Brita pitcher. We've used it through our country well water, so much iron it was orange, and now through our chemical smelling city water, and it always comes out great. Even my nephew terrier who visits form West Virginia drinks it and he wont touch our water before it's been through the pitcher.
  • RossweisseRossweisse Hell Host, 8th Day Host
    Sparrow wrote: »
    She still doesn't own 'em all, which is why we have the delightful ceremony of Swan Upping on the Thames every year to catch and identify the ones that belong to her.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swan_Upping

    Thank you, Sparrow!


  • MMMMMM Shipmate
    I didn't take swan upping into account, did I?

    MMM
  • Martin54Martin54 Shipmate
    edited May 2018
    Does the frequency of light decrease over time? Does the amplitude increase with the wavelength if so? Is the amplitude fixed by frequency?
  • Martin54 wrote: »
    Does the frequency of light decrease over time? Does the amplitude increase with the wavelength if so? Is the amplitude fixed by frequency?

    Frequency and wavelength are different measures of the same thing. Frequency is a measure of the number of waves (or cycles) per second. Wavelength is a measure of the amount of time for one wave (or cycle).

    Frequency does not change over time; it remains constant. Frequency is what gives light its colour. Each hue has its own frequency, and white light is what we perceive when all the hues are "shining" at once.

    Amplitude is the brightness of the light.

    Amplitude and frequency are independent of each other; you can have a bright violet light or a dim violet light of exactly the same hue.
  • Martin54Martin54 Shipmate
    Martin54 wrote: »
    Does the frequency of light decrease over time? Does the amplitude increase with the wavelength if so? Is the amplitude fixed by frequency?

    Frequency and wavelength are different measures of the same thing. Frequency is a measure of the number of waves (or cycles) per second. Wavelength is a measure of the amount of time for one wave (or cycle).

    Frequency does not change over time; it remains constant. Frequency is what gives light its colour. Each hue has its own frequency, and white light is what we perceive when all the hues are "shining" at once.

    Amplitude is the brightness of the light.

    Amplitude and frequency are independent of each other; you can have a bright violet light or a dim violet light of exactly the same hue.
    Sooooooo, a photon can have a high or low amplitude with the same frequency? And frequency never intrinsically attenuates over time=distance?
  • Martin54 wrote: »
    Sooooooo, a photon can have a high or low amplitude with the same frequency? And frequency never intrinsically attenuates over time=distance?

    "A photon" is a single particle - a single quantum of light. It doesn't come in different amplitudes, it either comes or it doesn't. Bright light is lots of photons, dim light is fewer photons. If what you have is a laser, then you have lots of coherent photons.

    At the quantum level, we do speak about amplitudes, but what we mean is the amplitude of the wavefunction, which is related to the probability of finding the particle in a particular state.

    And yes, frequency does not intrinsically attenuate over time. Light from distant (cosmological scale) objects, however, is red-shifted (reduced in frequency) because of the expansion of the universe. This is similar to the doppler effect pitch change that you hear when an ambulance siren passes you.
  • bongowomanbongowoman Shipmate Posts: 15
    Duvets- are there any with zips on 3 sides?
    At 5 feet nothing and cursed with a king-sized duvet for partner who is 6 feet 11 inches tall, I struggle mightily to get it back into its case after laundering.
    Do any of our multinational crew know if there's a make of duvet cover that would be easier to handle?
  • I have to admit that the 6'11" partner feels like the perfect solution to me. Clearly, independence is a wonderful thing, but 6'11" feels like the right scale of person to take on a king size duvet and win without excess contest.
  • LeoLeo Shipmate
    I have to admit that the 6'11" partner feels like the perfect solution to me. Clearly, independence is a wonderful thing, but 6'11" feels like the right scale of person to take on a king size duvet and win without excess contest.

    At 6' 7 myself, I could do with one of them.
  • No comment at all. It's a cruel fate that leaves one fitting every single one of the duvets fitted in the House of Thunder.
  • RossweisseRossweisse Hell Host, 8th Day Host
    I have never seen the appeal of duvets: they're too hot in warm weather, and too hard to stuff into their cases at any time of year. I'll stay with good old sheets, blankets, and bedspreads.
  • bongowoman wrote: »
    Duvets- are there any with zips on 3 sides?
    At 5 feet nothing and cursed with a king-sized duvet for partner who is 6 feet 11 inches tall, I struggle mightily to get it back into its case after laundering.

    Ah. What you need is some kind of big clip that you can tie to your bedposts.

    Take one top corner of duvet, feed inside mammoth cover until you reach the top corner. Grasp from the outside, then clip on outside with oversized binder clip.

    Repeat with other top corner. Attach clips to bedposts and pull cover down duvet, then button cover up.
  • Martin54Martin54 Shipmate
    edited May 2018
    Martin54 wrote: »
    Sooooooo, a photon can have a high or low amplitude with the same frequency? And frequency never intrinsically attenuates over time=distance?

    "A photon" is a single particle - a single quantum of light. It doesn't come in different amplitudes, it either comes or it doesn't. Bright light is lots of photons, dim light is fewer photons. If what you have is a laser, then you have lots of coherent photons.

    At the quantum level, we do speak about amplitudes, but what we mean is the amplitude of the wavefunction, which is related to the probability of finding the particle in a particular state.

    And yes, frequency does not intrinsically attenuate over time. Light from distant (cosmological scale) objects, however, is red-shifted (reduced in frequency) because of the expansion of the universe. This is similar to the doppler effect pitch change that you hear when an ambulance siren passes you.
    Well bugger me! Those things are immortal! Worse than protons then? Believe it or not I get the wave-particle dichotomy and knew I was coming it. And being an OLLLLD bloke on the bus I'd forgotten that the expansion causes red shift. I ask you. The stuff that ages out. But that's not why I was asking about attenuation. So can we talk classical waves? What is the amplitude of 380nm 666THz light? Not the photon flux please.

    Hmmmm. Oscillating electrons. Radio. Amplitude increases toward source with no change in frequency. Ah HA!!! Sooooooooo. Does amplitude intrinsically decrease with time=distance?
  • Golden KeyGolden Key Shipmate
    Putting a zip-up cover on a mattress is hard, too. Helps to have one a size larger than the mattress, and to put it on so that the zipper is as easy as possible reach, even if that means it's easily visible.
  • Golden KeyGolden Key Shipmate
    Re duvet:

    This advice may be worth about as much as you're paying for it. Based on long-ago experience, an alternate way is to lay the inner bedding flat on the bed. Then roll/fold the cover down, the way you would a pair of socks when putting them on. When it's compact, slip it around the base of the bedding. Then gradually roll it up around the bedding, until you get to the top.

    YMMV.

    (My wording may be a little different than you're using. Long ago, I learned that duvet = the cover, and blankets go inside. And that was the term that people used. That switched at some point. It may be kind of like girls' tights being called "leotards". When they're older, a leotard is the suit on the main body. (Trust me on this. It was the case for many, years. Don't know if it still is.) I figured some American shopkeeper got boxes with French labels and got them mixed up, and the usage spread from there. I looked it up once, and that seems to be more or less the case.)
  • BroJamesBroJames Purgatory Host, 8th Day Host
    The French word duvet means ‘down’ (feathers, not direction)
  • Golden KeyGolden Key Shipmate
    Thx. :)
  • sionisaissionisais Shipmate
    I don't know if this helps but our way with duvets is to start with the cover inside out, reach inside it to grab the ends of the duvet and shake the cover over the duvet.
  • bongowomanbongowoman Shipmate Posts: 15
    Thanks, Golden Key, Learning Cniht and Sioni.
    I'll try all three suggestions in turn.
    And - yes- the simplest way would be to get said partner to do it, but life's not that simple...
  • Golden Key wrote: »
    Re duvet:

    This advice may be worth about as much as you're paying for it. Based on long-ago experience, an alternate way is to lay the inner bedding flat on the bed. Then roll/fold the cover down, the way you would a pair of socks when putting them on. When it's compact, slip it around the base of the bedding. Then gradually roll it up around the bedding, until you get to the top.

    The burrito method. There are videos on YouTube showing how it’s done.
  • RossweisseRossweisse Hell Host, 8th Day Host
    But please explain to me the appeal of the too-warm, hard-to-change duvet? I don't get it.
  • Golden KeyGolden Key Shipmate
    I think the idea is that you don't have to fuss with blankets, just the duvet. Easier to make the bed. Of course, the appeal depends on a particular person's needs. If they tend to sleep hot, they're probably better off with lightweight bedding they can adjust as necessary.
  • PigwidgeonPigwidgeon Shipmate
    When visiting England, I have often taken my bath towel from the bathroom to use as a light blanket. In the summer a duvet is much too warm, and there's nothing lighter (e.g., a sheet).

    (I'm a morning showerer, so my towel is dry at bedtime.)
  • Wet KipperWet Kipper Shipmate
    Rossweisse wrote: »
    But please explain to me the appeal of the too-warm, hard-to-change duvet? I don't get it.

    we have more than one duvet (which was known as a "continental quilt" when I was growing up), and it probably helps that in our climate there aren't so many extremes of temperature during the year
    in the summer, (ie 3 days in July) we use the lightweight one. For the spring and autumn we use the heavier weight one, and in the depths of winter we put them both together
  • Rossweisse wrote: »
    I have never seen the appeal of duvets: they're too hot in warm weather, and too hard to stuff into their cases at any time of year. I'll stay with good old sheets, blankets, and bedspreads.

    For summer I have linen sheets, inherited from a grandparent; linen sheet and cotton blanket is perfect for UK summer - adding a rug/ another blanket if necessary.
  • Marvin the MartianMarvin the Martian Admin Emeritus
    Rossweisse wrote: »
    But please explain to me the appeal of the too-warm, hard-to-change duvet? I don't get it.

    In the depths of the British winter (so from roughly early September to late May) it’s an absolutely vital item. Unless you want to spend silly amounts of money by leaving the heating on all night, I suppose.
  • Martin54Martin54 Shipmate
    Martin54 wrote: »
    Martin54 wrote: »
    Sooooooo, a photon can have a high or low amplitude with the same frequency? And frequency never intrinsically attenuates over time=distance?

    "A photon" is a single particle - a single quantum of light. It doesn't come in different amplitudes, it either comes or it doesn't. Bright light is lots of photons, dim light is fewer photons. If what you have is a laser, then you have lots of coherent photons.

    At the quantum level, we do speak about amplitudes, but what we mean is the amplitude of the wavefunction, which is related to the probability of finding the particle in a particular state.

    And yes, frequency does not intrinsically attenuate over time. Light from distant (cosmological scale) objects, however, is red-shifted (reduced in frequency) because of the expansion of the universe. This is similar to the doppler effect pitch change that you hear when an ambulance siren passes you.
    Well bugger me! Those things are immortal! Worse than protons then? Believe it or not I get the wave-particle dichotomy and knew I was coming it. And being an OLLLLD bloke on the bus I'd forgotten that the expansion causes red shift. I ask you. The stuff that ages out. But that's not why I was asking about attenuation. So can we talk classical waves? What is the amplitude of 380nm 666THz light? Not the photon flux please.

    Hmmmm. Oscillating electrons. Radio. Amplitude increases toward source with no change in frequency. Ah HA!!! Sooooooooo. Does amplitude intrinsically decrease with time=distance?
    Wow! The answer has to be yes then! At what rate? To what limit?
  • Martin54 wrote: »
    So can we talk classical waves? What is the amplitude of 380nm 666THz light? Not the photon flux please.
    Classically, the amplitude can be anything you like. How bright is your light?
    Martin54 wrote: »
    Hmmmm. Oscillating electrons. Radio. Amplitude increases toward source with no change in frequency. Ah HA!!! Sooooooooo. Does amplitude intrinsically decrease with time=distance?

    Sure. If you have a uniform point source of light, the amplitude decreases as the square of the distance, because the same amount of light is spread out over a greater surface area.

    Consider a light source, and a series of concentric spheres around it. The total luminous flux through the surface of each sphere is the same, but the light crossing the surface of the big sphere is spread out over a larger area than when is crossed the small sphere's surface, so the brightness is reduced.
  • RossweisseRossweisse Hell Host, 8th Day Host
    In the depths of the British winter (so from roughly early September to late May) it’s an absolutely vital item. Unless you want to spend silly amounts of money by leaving the heating on all night, I suppose.

    I've always found that just adding another blanket usually solves the problem.

  • Martin54Martin54 Shipmate
    edited May 2018
    OK chaps, what are the implications of the relativity of simultaneity in presentist reality?

    Anyone actually seen a ladder paradox?

    Anyone actually come up with a real reality scenario in which as far as an effect is concerned its cause followed?
  • Gracious RebelGracious Rebel Shipmate
    edited May 2018
    Rossweisse wrote: »
    In the depths of the British winter (so from roughly early September to late May) it’s an absolutely vital item. Unless you want to spend silly amounts of money by leaving the heating on all night, I suppose.

    I've always found that just adding another blanket usually solves the problem.

    But blankets are so heavy and feel uncomfortable when you are used to sleeping under a light warm duvet. Also blankets tend to slip off unless you tuck them in all around... and if you tuck them in, they feel tight and uncomfortable, and don't allow the flexibility of (for example) sticking a leg out if you get too hot. Duvets are light, but mould themselves around the body so don't fall off. They are also easier when making the bed each day.
  • Easy way to put on a Duvet. I do it all the time. Check out You Tube video called
    How to Put on a Duvet Cover: The California Roll Way
  • Golden KeyGolden Key Shipmate
    Pigwidgeon--
    Pigwidgeon wrote: »
    When visiting England, I have often taken my bath towel from the bathroom to use as a light blanket. In the summer a duvet is much too warm, and there's nothing lighter (e.g., a sheet).

    (I'm a morning showerer, so my towel is dry at bedtime.)

    {Raises hand at back of cross-Pond class.}

    The American style of making a bed I was taught involves a fitted sheet over the mattress, a top sheet, blanket(s), and bedspread/ comforter/ quilt.

    Does the English style skip the top sheet? Or am I misreading?

    Thx.
  • Golden Key wrote: »
    The American style of making a bed I was taught involves a fitted sheet over the mattress, a top sheet, blanket(s), and bedspread/ comforter/ quilt.

    Does the English style skip the top sheet? Or am I misreading?

    When making a bed with a duvet, one places a fitted sheet on the mattress, then adds a duvet in a duvet cover. The removable, washable duvet cover functions in place of the top sheet.
  • Golden KeyGolden Key Shipmate
    Hmmmm. Thx. ISTM it would work better to have a top sheet between the sleeper and the duvet: protects the duvet cover, and the cover wouldn't need to be removed and washed so often.
  • Golden Key wrote: »
    Hmmmm. Thx. ISTM it would work better to have a top sheet between the sleeper and the duvet: protects the duvet cover, and the cover wouldn't need to be removed and washed so often.

    Removing and replacing a duvet cover is (bongowoman's size difficulties aside) not slower than making up a bed with a top sheet. Adding a separate topsheet provides an extra thin tangly object to get caught up in the legs of sleepers. This is why duvets are superior - they are far less liable to become tangled and wadded in the night than a topsheet.
  • Wet Kipper wrote: »
    Rossweisse wrote: »
    But please explain to me the appeal of the too-warm, hard-to-change duvet? I don't get it.

    we have more than one duvet (which was known as a "continental quilt" when I was growing up), and it probably helps that in our climate there aren't so many extremes of temperature during the year
    in the summer, (ie 3 days in July) we use the lightweight one. For the spring and autumn we use the heavier weight one, and in the depths of winter we put them both together

    That's almost right!

    To be completely accurate, if there are a few incredibly hot nights, it is acceptable to remove the duvet from its cover and just sleep under the cover.

    And in reality, it has to be bloody freezing with the house unheated before the double duvet is needed. I find that a lightweight duvet works well from mid spring to mid autumn and then the heavier weight duvet is used. But Mrs Teasdale (let the reader understand) prefers the option of adding a blanket in winter. But at least then she only adds the blanket to her side of the bed, not suffocating me.
  • PigwidgeonPigwidgeon Shipmate
    edited May 2018
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  • RossweisseRossweisse Hell Host, 8th Day Host
    Well, I must be a quieter sleeper than some; I don't have any trouble with sheets and blankets wadding up around me or falling off. That's another problem with duvets, though: They're not tucked in.

    To each her own!

  • But duvets are snuggly!
  • Mrs image likes a top sheet then the covered duvet. Changes the sheet each week and the duvet cover monthly.
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