Mark Odenbach

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Thanks Bryant Redhawk for getting this party started.  You are helping to demystify the topic of soil composition and function.
7 years ago
Small changes in the diameter of the plug will have a large impact on the force needed to pull it up, since the force on it is proportional to the square of it's diameter.  For example, if you were to reduce the size of the plug to 1/2 of it's original diameter, the force needed to lift it would be 1/4 of the original...
If you have any latitude to change the bottom orifice diameter, then you can make the system work with nearly any arrangement of floats and water level.  The force on the plug is directly related to the height of the water column above it.
8 years ago
"You can please some of the people all of the time, all of the people some of the time, but never all of the people all of the time."

Your topic wound around that axiom quite nicely. All of us are strange birds to someone or many, but it is this uniqueness that makes the world such a rich place. It may be that the "richness" is not to your liking, but perhaps that is why we tend to hang around and attract those that share some our own uniqueness so as to create, like you suggested, a localized bit of crazy that we do feel comfortable with.

There is a trap in this though. If you have ideas and principles that the world can benefit from, perhaps preaching to the choir may be more comfortable, but unhelpful to society in general. This blog and website is a good start, but perhaps a way should be found to subject those, who may be uncomfortable with your particular "Crazy", to some of the quite innovative ideas presented in this small gravity well you have created.

Good Luck, and thanks for your effort.
10 years ago