This summer I was visiting the Olympic peninsula in Washington State. My wife and I had rented a car for the trip, and wouldn't you know it, we got a flat tire on a side road about 45 minutes from civilization. After locating the jack and lug wrench, I attempted to remove the lug nuts, but man... they were on tight! Probably had been put on with a compressed-air driven wrench. Grudgingly, we called AAA to have someone with either more arm strength (I admit to being a terrible arm-wrestler) or a better wrench come out, but found that we'd have to wait an hour or more for help. With nothing better to do, I kept attempting to loosen the nuts, and eventually succeeded using all the strength and leverage my body could muster (resulting in a sore back for the next couple of days). However, if the wait hadn't been so long I probably would just have let the mechanic handle it.
Stories like this don't account for a high percentage of flat tire fixes, but the point was that even people capable of fixing a problem might prefer for someone else to do it.
grg - That's that I used to think. That's what logic would tell us to think. And of course it's not true that all hot water will freeze faster than all cold water, but there are differences in the way that hot and cold water lose heat, as well as the chemical composition of dissolved components and the molecular physics involved.
Though it seems non-intuitive, it has been observed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpemba_effect
These Environmental Graffiti articles all fail to walk the talk they talk. A picture through a sunglasses lens now counts as one of the 25 most colorful lakes in the world? Or lakes at sunset? Any lake can be golden at sunset. Plus, as Idil mentioned, some of these are hardly bigger than puddles.
This isn't the only example; remember the lists of creepy trees and creepy clouds?
Just so you know.
This summer I was visiting the Olympic peninsula in Washington State. My wife and I had rented a car for the trip, and wouldn't you know it, we got a flat tire on a side road about 45 minutes from civilization. After locating the jack and lug wrench, I attempted to remove the lug nuts, but man... they were on tight! Probably had been put on with a compressed-air driven wrench. Grudgingly, we called AAA to have someone with either more arm strength (I admit to being a terrible arm-wrestler) or a better wrench come out, but found that we'd have to wait an hour or more for help. With nothing better to do, I kept attempting to loosen the nuts, and eventually succeeded using all the strength and leverage my body could muster (resulting in a sore back for the next couple of days). However, if the wait hadn't been so long I probably would just have let the mechanic handle it.
Stories like this don't account for a high percentage of flat tire fixes, but the point was that even people capable of fixing a problem might prefer for someone else to do it.
I agree, but have you ever met people? They don't exactly inspire confidence in this ideal.
Though it seems non-intuitive, it has been observed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpemba_effect
Not that that's a great example of a functional family, but it's not like this is unprecedented.
This isn't the only example; remember the lists of creepy trees and creepy clouds?