(January 31, 2017 at 7:36 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Yes. Heat rises. As it rises away from the heat source, the heated gases begin to cool. The gases at the circumference of the updraft cool first, because they're exposed to cooler air more than the center of the column. Losing heat, there's more fire tetrahedron, and the flames are foreshortened, leaving the fire looking like a cone.
Kewl! I guess that accounts for why fire dances.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.