What does steam mean?

[moodnacreek]

Steam is what they used when they didn't have water power 

[Don P]

All I want to know is are we talking yellow or white?

[Magicman]

As for me and my house, it's Yellow. 

[YellowHammer]

This whole conversation reminds of a slight divergence within my own family which is divided by hereditary lines into two groups which also overlap. There are the Lindtveit's on one side and the Elliott's on the other. We all get along just famously, but the joke is that if you ask an Elliott what time it is, after some mildly sarcastic comment like "Why, do you have a date or something?", but then will tell you the time. If you ask a Lindtveit what time it is he will likely tell you how to build a watch in the process. Guess which side I am on.

I'm still trying to figure out what side of the family I'm on.  Everybody knows I have zero sarcastic or smart aleck characteristics, and if you don't believe it, ask anybody.  Maybe not.... 


I don't think I'm on the other side either, the guy who will tell you how to build a watch, because really all you need is a little cesium or rubidium and a photon counter.  I mean not much to say about that, pretty easy.

I think I'm the other guy who, when you ask what time it is, I will have to ask how fast you are going and what altitude you are?  I mean gravity, as described by general relativity, distorts spacetime, causing time dilation near massive objects. Clocks in stronger gravitational fields tick slower due to the curvature of spacetime, so the higher you are from the center of the Earth, the faster time flows. Additionally, according to special relativity, relative velocity affects the passage of time. Time appears dilated for observers moving at speeds relative to a stationary observer. This phenomenon arises from the Lorentz transformation, which governs the relationship between space and time coordinates in different reference frames. So, both gravity and velocity profoundly influence the measurement of time. therefore, if you ask me what time it is, will have to say "I have no idea."

[Old Greenhorn]

Robert, you would most defiantly be on my side of the family.

[doc henderson]

or answer, "who cares"!!!!!!

[jpassardi]

It seems the water vapor discussion may have gone awry somewhere along the way...   

[Don P]

Ahh, of course, blue.

[GAB]

Steam is what they used when they didn't have water power 

Last I knew you needed water to make steam.
GAB

[YellowHammer]

The topic has fallen into a black hole.  

[caveman]

I had grits Sunday night and for lunch yesterday and today.  Accompanied with steaming hot, fried fish.  I guess tomorrow for lunch it'll be hamburgers and black-eyed peas.  I don't know too much about steaming blades or thermal dynamics, but I like food.

[Digger Don]

The topic has fallen into a black hole.   

I'll take responsibility for starting it, but I swear, I had nothing to do with where it went. I'll now go out in the woods and never return.      But first...






Does that mean your only talent (besides sawing, of course) is sitting on an ice cream cone, and telling us what flavor it is?  

[Digger Don]

Everybody knows I have zero sarcastic or smart aleck characteristics, and if you don't believe it, ask anybody.

Why did this quote not show up in the blank space, in my last post?

[Magicman]

There is a little trick to put two different quotes in the same reply.  Your way was by far the simplest. 

[Digger Don]

You're not even going to tell us the secret? I'll probably forget it anyway, but the younger folks might remember.

[Magicman]

Not a secret, just kinda awkward.  I open two tabs with the FF open in each.  Make the quote and then copy it back to the first tab.

It is much simpler to make two replies and also easier for the reader to keep track of the conversation without wondering ?? 

[Digger Don]

Thanks. I'll try to remember to just quote once.