Small Questions thread - TRA$H EDITION

[Pavlov's Bell]

Similar to the shopper and denim editions, but not related to floral and/or leopard print, raf, apc sizing recommendation, jap railroad worker overalls, etc.

For instance:

Why does LandoCal think people want his Ecko hoodies?

or

Why does Rick Ross pronounce his name and boss as "rohwse" and "bohwse"?

[conqueror]

ross saying 'rohwse' and 'bohwse' is the best thing about him (and maybe that camo varsity in the chopper chopper down vid).

[Pavlov's Bell]

Is it a south/MIA thing? I grew up in the nasal NE.

[madstaxbro]

Why is the Ebbetts hat project taking so long.

[Pavlov's Bell]

Dealin with family issues so I passed the baton to Nixon. He got that shit locked.

[i wear shooes]

What does 16steps mean Zubin?

[jayrock]

Doesn't this thread exist already?

[OkayOkay]

Why does Vampy hate Lando?

[OkayOkay]

Wait, why does Vampy hate Lando so much?

That makes more sense.

[blasterofair]

Why's the sky blue? Why is water wet?

[OkayOkay]

Believe it or not, those questions are directly related.

[redX]

no not really

[OkayOkay]

maybe directly wasn't quite right, but isn't it because water molecules in the air either allow or don't allow blue light to pass through (can't remember which), and those are the same molecules that make up water (instead of being a gas)? I know next to nothing about this stuff, so def educate me if I'm way off.

[madstaxbro]

What happened to that asian guy who was always decked in M Free Americana stuff.

[Spastic_Koala]

^He worked on that new high speed railroad in China.

[redX]

maybe directly wasn't quite right, but isn't it because water molecules in the air either allow or don't allow blue light to pass through (can't remember which), and those are the same molecules that make up water (instead of being a gas)? I know next to nothing about this stuff, so def educate me if I'm way off.

yeah well no

Tyndall Effect

The first steps towards correctly explaining the colour of the sky were taken by John Tyndall in 1859. He discovered that when light passes through a clear fluid holding small particles in suspension, the shorter blue wavelengths are scattered more strongly than the red. This can be demonstrated by shining a beam of white light through a tank of water with a little milk or soap mixed in. From the side, the beam can be seen by the blue light it scatters; but the light seen directly from the end is reddened after it has passed through the tank. The scattered light can also be shown to be polarised using a filter of polarised light, just as the sky appears a deeper blue through polaroid sun glasses.

This is most correctly called the Tyndall effect, but it is more commonly known to physicists as Rayleigh scattering—after Lord Rayleigh, who studied it in more detail a few years later. He showed that the amount of light scattered is inversely proportional to the fourth power of wavelength for sufficiently small particles. It follows that blue light is scattered more than red light by a factor of (700/400)4 ~= 10.

Dust or Molecules?

Tyndall and Rayleigh thought that the blue colour of the sky must be due to small particles of dust and droplets of water vapour in the atmosphere. Even today, people sometimes incorrectly say that this is the case. Later scientists realised that if this were true, there would be more variation of sky colour with humidity or haze conditions than was actually observed, so they supposed correctly that the molecules of oxygen and nitrogen in the air are sufficient to account for the scattering. The case was finally settled by Einstein in 1911, who calculated the detailed formula for the scattering of light from molecules; and this was found to be in agreement with experiment. He was even able to use the calculation as a further verification of Avogadro's number when compared with observation. The molecules are able to scatter light because the electromagnetic field of the light waves induces electric dipole moments in the molecules.

[OkayOkay]

wait, so is the sky blue because of light refraction off water molecules or not?

I's so confuzed.

[Vampyrvargfesten]

supershopper

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supertrash

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dear supermods requests/questions threard

i cant find the supertrash small questions thread

supertrash small questions thread

[fallen angels]

for what kind of occasions is it acceptable to wear a camo tie?

[Mr HaGa]

^When applying for job at GQ magazine

[redX]

wait, so is the sky blue because of light refraction off water molecules or not?

I's so confuzed.

just re-read the last paragraph

[Pavlov's Bell]

^When applying for job at GQ magazine

Or applying to be Nick Wooster's assistant.

[okonomi]

supershopper

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superfashion

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superfashion > requests & questions

superculture

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superdenim

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supertrash

small q'z thred: READ ME BEFORE STARTING A NEW THREAD

dear supermods requests/questions threard

i cant find the supertrash small questions thread

supertrash small questions thread

Okay, vamp! We're all really impressed by your ability to use the search function.

[deleted342394234]

what does the old guy say after he kicks the girl in the pussy?

alt question: wheres the vid of this?

[sunkenshoes]

^there you go

[denimdestroyedmylife]

Doesn't this thread exist already?

sort of .

[OkayOkay]

has anybody registered with Klout yet? This seems like it could be huge. I'm pretty curious.

[denimdestroyedmylife]

^ yeah

not sure the point of it

but yeah

[kaws&effect]

who's da member sellin dem tibetan wood bead bracelets...

cant find link

[OkayOkay]

Xewo and Funkdoobi I think?