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Article #9264Re: Best Buy Treated Me Like a Thief
From: Howard Beale
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 15:38
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 15:38
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"Geoff Miller" <geoffm@u1.netgate.net> wrote in message news:dq0jqm$snu@u1.netgate.net... > > > Howard Beale <usenet@grasslake.net> writes: > >> How would it compare to a quarter-inch of rainfall over >> a 4-5 hour period? > > > I don't know where those numbers came from, but look at it this way: > > Rain is seasonal, and even in the rainy season, it isn't continuous. > Also, while the humidity level obviously rises when it rains, rain > is composed of discrete drops. It seems reasonable to suspect that > water *vapor* being injected into the atmosphere continuously would > raise the humidity level a lot more than rain would. Depending on > microclimates and local topography, could it lead to localized, per- > petual rain, like in "Blade Runner?" You're talking changes on the terraforming level. We've been belching greenhouse gasses for a couple of hundred years now and we're only now starting to see changes. Hard to see how vapor from hydrogen combustion is going to change the climate that fast.
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