OTOOP...Re: SC - cups

[James Gilly / Alasdair mac Iain]

At 09:00 18-9-98 -0400, Adamantius wrote:
>Wait! I've got it! Some government agencies maintain laboratories deep
>underground to protect them from nuclear attack. Maybe the cup of water was
>weighed in one so deep that its greater proximity to the earth's core caused
>it to weigh more, just as it might weigh less, say, at the top of Mount
Everest?

Close.  Actually, the laboratory was up in the mountains, high enough up
that the decreased atmospheric pressure permitted the water in the cup to
expand, so that a slightly larger cup was made than actually required.
Thus, when the cup is at a lower altitude, such as where you live, it holds
slightly more water than was originally intended.


Alasdair mac Iain



Laird Alasdair mac Iain of Elderslie
Dun an Leomhain Bhig
Canton of Dragon's Aerie, Barony Beyond the Mountain
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Argent, a chevron cotised azure surmounted by a sword and in chief two
mullets sable
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