More likely the track was deformed past it's yield point. While the ground rebounded back into some semblance of it's initial position, the track didn't.
"What you want is the opposite: lots of surface area (to cool the drink quickly) and little volume (to avoid diluting the drink)."
Surface area doesn't matter in diluting the drink. It changes the speed at which the drink cools and the ice melts, but the absolute temperature change in the drink created by the ice is largely mass dependent. If you need to cool X amount of drink to a specific temperature, then you need Y amount of ice. Your drink will get just as watery, no matter what shape the ice is in because surface area only changes the rate of heat transfer not the absolute amount of heat transfer needed to cool the drink.
If you use more ice than is required to get it to the equilibrium point, then you'll have some extra ice in the glass that keeps your drink cool longer as the room temperature air warms it up. But that extra ice will water it down more as it keeps it cool. So your drink only gets more watery if you use too much ice and then let it sit on the bar forever before you finish it. Also once the ice is sticking out above the pool of liquid in the glass, your ice is mostly melting to keep itself cool from the air. You're watering the drink down for nothing. Either finish the drink or get a refill so the ice isn't melting in vain.
There are a few ways you can change the amount of ice you'd need and reduce the wateriness of the final drink. Most ice used at bars or restaurants is probably at or near the freezing point. If you cool the ice more before using it, then the ice will have to warm up before it can melt. This makes the drink cool faster by increasing the temperature difference between the ice and the liquid. It also reduces the amount of ice you need to use by increasing the amount of energy the drink has to give up to melt each cube. Or you could just use something like dry ice which is both very cold and also doesn't create water when it melts.
Interesting but their thermodynamic and heat transfer analyses are flawed. The round ball of ice will have 20% smaller surface area than a cube of the same volume. So yes the ball will melt slower.
The problem? It is the heat absorbed by the state change that cools the drink. Which is a volumetric quantity. Which means the spherical ice cools your drink slower. More importantly the ice is going to melt quickly until the drink reaches an equilibrium temperature. Which means it's only the quantity of ice that matters not really the shape.
So basically use cubes and drink your drink while it's cold but before it gets all watery.
Invasion by the Duergar-Drow Alliance from the Underdark.
They see the United States as weak. Our national government is divided and lacks the long-term stability provided by a hereditary monarch. Our military is waging two wars on the other side of the planet. We have no formal state religion and our priests can't even work minor healings. What little religious authority they have is squandered on oppressing anyone with a talent for arcana or psionics. It's a far cry from the matriarchal theocracy by the Drow priestess of Lloth, that's for sure.
Their dark legions probably plan to emerge from their hidden tunnels and split the continental US in two from north to south through our relatively unguarded and thinly populated farm-belt states. Once they've seized our agricultural base, we'll have to surrender or starve.
Yeah most of them could be real people, but only because they're so processed that you can't tell what's under the photoshop anymore. Might be a real girl, might be a 3D rendering.
The only one I had to really take a second look at is the girl in the pink turtleneck.
Impressive, but wasteful. A more conventional double decker bridge that divides traffic onto an upper and lower roadway that share the same supports would work as well. It would also require simpler foundations and allow shipping to pass under it easily.
Surface area doesn't matter in diluting the drink. It changes the speed at which the drink cools and the ice melts, but the absolute temperature change in the drink created by the ice is largely mass dependent. If you need to cool X amount of drink to a specific temperature, then you need Y amount of ice. Your drink will get just as watery, no matter what shape the ice is in because surface area only changes the rate of heat transfer not the absolute amount of heat transfer needed to cool the drink.
If you use more ice than is required to get it to the equilibrium point, then you'll have some extra ice in the glass that keeps your drink cool longer as the room temperature air warms it up. But that extra ice will water it down more as it keeps it cool. So your drink only gets more watery if you use too much ice and then let it sit on the bar forever before you finish it. Also once the ice is sticking out above the pool of liquid in the glass, your ice is mostly melting to keep itself cool from the air. You're watering the drink down for nothing. Either finish the drink or get a refill so the ice isn't melting in vain.
There are a few ways you can change the amount of ice you'd need and reduce the wateriness of the final drink. Most ice used at bars or restaurants is probably at or near the freezing point. If you cool the ice more before using it, then the ice will have to warm up before it can melt. This makes the drink cool faster by increasing the temperature difference between the ice and the liquid. It also reduces the amount of ice you need to use by increasing the amount of energy the drink has to give up to melt each cube. Or you could just use something like dry ice which is both very cold and also doesn't create water when it melts.
The problem? It is the heat absorbed by the state change that cools the drink. Which is a volumetric quantity. Which means the spherical ice cools your drink slower. More importantly the ice is going to melt quickly until the drink reaches an equilibrium temperature. Which means it's only the quantity of ice that matters not really the shape.
So basically use cubes and drink your drink while it's cold but before it gets all watery.
They see the United States as weak. Our national government is divided and lacks the long-term stability provided by a hereditary monarch. Our military is waging two wars on the other side of the planet. We have no formal state religion and our priests can't even work minor healings. What little religious authority they have is squandered on oppressing anyone with a talent for arcana or psionics. It's a far cry from the matriarchal theocracy by the Drow priestess of Lloth, that's for sure.
Their dark legions probably plan to emerge from their hidden tunnels and split the continental US in two from north to south through our relatively unguarded and thinly populated farm-belt states. Once they've seized our agricultural base, we'll have to surrender or starve.
The only one I had to really take a second look at is the girl in the pink turtleneck.