whatever, quid - 2020-08-08

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quid

00:05

@amWhy see you! (I hoped you checked that the formula is correct!)

amWhy

@quid I'm impressed! See you!

an4s

00:36

@amWhy Will I be penalized if I type this out? 😂

Xander Henderson

@an4s By whom?

an4s

Anybody who has banning/suspending-users-from-chat powers

8 hours later…

sai-kartik

09:04

@amWhy I'll have some, thanks. Need it post lunch this fine Saturday afternoon (except it's weirdly cloudy here...)

4 hours later…

Safdar

13:29

@sai-kartik ⁻No rain yet?

sai-kartik

13:45

@Safdar nope

Safdar

you're lucky then..

sai-kartik

@Safdar oh dont fret.. ive had my share of the most disgusting thunderstorms this june/july

Btw, which state you from?

Safdar

@sai-kartik Kerala. Its been raining the whole day.

sai-kartik

@Safdar yeah i think some weather depression happened

Safdar

@sai-kartik last 3 days..

sai-kartik

13:51

and blore always gets hit no matter where the depression occurs

Be it mumbai, chennai or kerala that's hit with a storm

the after-effect always goes through blore

which is very annoying tbvh

Safdar

@sai-kartik you dont get flooded do you?

sai-kartik

nope...

okay you win 😂😂

Xander Henderson

@sai-kartik I love thunderstorms.

I love the monsoons of the southwestern US, and I like the frightening, tornado-spawning weather of Iowa (though when the tornado sirens go off, they stop being nearly so enjoyable).

I can't stand the thunderless storms of souther California.

sai-kartik

@XanderHenderson yeah i mean the weather gets all cool and all but the problem is AFTER the storm where half the $h1t is uprooted

Safdar

@XanderHenderson Why does it seem so sarcastic, yet at the same time truthful?

sai-kartik

14:02

@XanderHenderson 😂😂

@XanderHenderson did you ever imagine answering a question like that on a test 😂

Safdar

@XanderHenderson Is this a part of the monsoon? Damn..

Xander Henderson

@Safdar No no no... the monsoons of the southwest are different from the tornado-spawning storms of the midwest.

I also get the impression that southwestern monsoons are quite different from the Indian thing.

In the American southwest, you get storm cells. These involve a lot of moisture in very high cloud formations which tend to pass fairly quickly.

Like, we might get an inch of rain in 15-20 min, but 10 minutes later, it is completely sunny.

These monsoons can cause flash flooding, but post-monsoon weather is often quite nice. The temperature cools down quite a bit, and the air smells quite nice.

Safdar

@XanderHenderson $\color{green}{\text{turns green with envy}}$

Xander Henderson

Midwestern storms, on the other hand, tend to stick around.

@Safdar Yeah, that happens to. All the plants come back to life.

Safdar

@XanderHenderson We normally do have a premonition of a flood happening two days before the whole thing happens. We can do nothing but watch..

We've had rain for almost a week straight two years ago.

Xander Henderson

14:17

@Safdar Yeah, this happens in the Mississippi watershed in the US

Lots of rain in the Dakotas, Minnesota, etc leads to flooding in Iowa, Arkansas, and points south several days later.

Our basement in Iowa flooded a few times, but we lived far enough above the river that we never really got flooded out.

Safdar

@XanderHenderson So rain in a different city caused a flood where you live? that seems unfortunate..

Xander Henderson

@Safdar I mean, water flows downhill, no?

The same happens all over the world. :)

Safdar

@XanderHenderson Why does it seem like the Missouri doesn't wanna enter Iowa? The river seems borders the entire state.. Any historical significance for this?

Xander Henderson

@Safdar I don't find that strange at all. Rivers, particularly large rivers, are hard to cross, and make good natural boundaries.

I mean, many, many US states have rivers for boundaries

The Mississippi doesn't actually go through any states other than Minnesota (where its headwaters lie); the Missouri forms the western border of a couple of states; Arizona is bounded on the west by the Colorado; the Ohio river forms the border of several states; etc.

This, also, is pretty common around the world.

If you see a boundary which is not a straight line, then it is likely either a body of water, or a very big mountain.

Safdar

14:35

@sai-kartik this explains the cloudiness.

sai-kartik

15:27

@Safdar intersting

google maps i presume ?

user21820

@XanderHenderson No way! Water flows up from the sea into clouds, and only sometimes comes down.

Xander Henderson

15:46

@user21820 Let me be more precise: liquid water flows downhill. :P

user21820

@XanderHenderson Heh.

High winds flip this waterfall upside down

►

This waterfall does not seem to obey you. @XanderHenderson =P

Xander Henderson

@user21820 Sigh... liquid water, influenced only by gravity, has a tendency to flow downhill.

F'ck'n' pedantic mathematicians.

user21820

Sigh...

@XanderHenderson Not necessarily, when in a siphon or due to the gravity of the moon. But ok ok I better stop before you suspend me for pedantry. =P

And even without siphons and tides, your comment inspired me to look for coriolis effects and guess what? Someone actually found a river that flows away from the earth's centre:

A: Rivers that flow "uphill" due to Earth's rotation

Are there any other rivers in the world for which this is true? The Mekong, at least after it has left the Tibetan plateau. Location Latitude Elevation (m) Radial distance (km) Source 33° 42' 30" 5224 6376.8 Manwan Reservoir 24° 45' 15.5"...

1 hour later…

amWhy

17:03

Happy Saturday, @quid.

quid

hello @amWhy, I hope you have a nice weekend.

amWhy

@quid So far so good... ;D I hope the same for you!

quid

@amWhy yes not too bad.

1 hour later…

Safdar

18:25

On MSE , i see people answering with hints and some with solutions.. how to know which way to answer?

an4s

19:09

@Safdar I saw a post on meta sometime ago on that topic

Q: Is it acceptable to leave hints as answers?

Question: Is it acceptable to leave a hint as an answer? For the purposes of this question, let me attempt to define a "hint": A hint is a short, generally terse, comment which does not provide an answer to the question asked, but instead gives a running start on the problem which, if ...

Here is another:

Q: How to avoid hint answers

I know some people like to give hints because they're concerned that they'll be doing some students homework for them or they're genuinely trying to help teach the matter at hand by offering a hint which gives the asker the ability to figure it out for themselves. However, for me, I usually don'...