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WildBill wrote:

puma guy wrote:

The Annoyed Man wrote:

jimlongley wrote:

The Annoyed Man wrote:

puma guy wrote:I was watching a History Channel show about Neanderthals. I didn't catch it all but they were showing some pools of water from a volcanic source and said the water temperature was 300 Degrees F. Like new math I guess that's the new physics.

Maybe they meant a nice balmy 300º Kelvin......which would be a comfortable 80.33º F.

That's probably it, TAM, they just forgot to mention which scale they were using.

I often quote the speed my vehicle will achieve in furlongs per fortnight.

:lol:I considered that so I looked up the conversion to Kelvin. I remembered the number 460 but couldn't recall what the relationship was. It's part of the conversion formula. I laughed at myself that I even remembered 460, especially since I can't remember where I put my keys.

I thought it was 273? My keys are in my pocket. I think?

The Annoyed Man wrote:

jimlongley wrote:

The Annoyed Man wrote:

puma guy wrote:I was watching a History Channel show about Neanderthals. I didn't catch it all but they were showing some pools of water from a volcanic source and said the water temperature was 300 Degrees F. Like new math I guess that's the new physics.

Maybe they meant a nice balmy 300º Kelvin......which would be a comfortable 80.33º F.

That's probably it, TAM, they just forgot to mention which scale they were using.

I often quote the speed my vehicle will achieve in furlongs per fortnight.

ShootDontTalk wrote:With all due respect, if you're watching the History Channel and expecting to find real history, or anything else accurately portrayed, you'd be better off watching Bugs Bunny. They have, pardon the pun, a pretty sad history of gross inaccuracies.

esxmarkc wrote:Although I agree with the OP that the Discover Channel screwed up this one there is an interesting phenomena where you can indeed superheat (heat water above it's boiling point at the current pressure) purified or distilled water in a glass or smooth container given rare circumstances.

Given water without pre-existing bubbles and pure enough that the nucleation threshold is homogeneous throughout the fluid, the first and primary nucleation moment (think the formulation of the very first steam bubble) can require more energy than there is available at the boiling point. Once the first bubble forms and physically disturbs the superheated water it cascades to boiling.

http://www.animations.physics.unsw.edu. ... eating.htm



Gotta love science!

But I'm pretty sure that the Discovery Channel is NOT in any way referring to this phenomena.

baldeagle wrote:

MONGOOSE wrote:Maybe you guys neeed to Google supercritical water. They indeed mean 300 degrees F.

How all you have to do is explain how a pool of water could be pressurized to the point that the water reaches supercritical levels.

WildBill wrote:

puma guy wrote:I was watching a History Channel show about Neanderthals. I didn't catch it all but they were showing some pools of water from a volcanic source and said the water temperature was 300 Degrees F. Like new math I guess that's the new physics.

They were undoubtedly scientists so they actually meant 300 degrees C.