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Chacham-

You are correct, but this was intended for illustrative purposes – to show a possible format that would allow people to easily track if a letter had been used or not.

How about this format?

(clue – something we are saying especially nowadays)

(Curious – I hope you don’t mind I “borrowed” your derrick and man).

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Moderator –

Please fix a couple of errors in my prior posting:

1)??????????? should be ????? ?????? – two words.

2)”that he write” should be “that he write”

3)”upon the miracles” should be “for the miracles”

4)”the mockery of card-playing” should be “card-playing”

1 and 4 are important because they affect the accuracy of the quote and translation of the words of the Chofetz Chaim.

(There is no need to post this correction request.)

Thank you.

What’s Next? (the dice one) Answer:

Hints for this puzzle were:

a) the puzzle name is “petals on the rose”.

b) the answer is always an even number (including possibly zero).

Since these hints didn’t help me, I omitted them.

If you want to try to solve the puzzle with these hints STOP READING NOW.

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The answer is: All dice which have a dot in the center have all their other dots (petals) added.

A one has no other dots.

A three has two other dots.

A five has four other dots.

The two, four and six have no center dot.

qaws-

The first things to think of before buying a digital camera are features you need/want, and price range.

You may want to take a look at this earlier thread: http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/help-with-camara

B&H has a reputation for honest and knowledgeable salespeople.

You will often find better prices from online sellers, but not always.

Missing:

For the kids –

Which event doesn’t occur during the year 2008?

It occurs once each year on the Hebrew calender.

I heard this same question about the year 2000 – Mod 42

intellegent-

It’s my pleasure – the underlying “why” behind how things work is something I find very interesting.

The Smart Fortwo (not a typo) has full-size seating for two adults. Its safety rating is excellent for a small car, and quite good overall because of its well-designed and extremely strong frame.

It is highway-capable with a top speed of slightly over 80 mph, although stability is noticeably affected at that speed.

The mileage is very good, but not spectacular at 33 mg city, 41 highway. The Prius and Civic hybrids get better mileage, and the Mini Cooper is only slightly lower. The Smart Fortwo diesel, which was sold in Canada got almost twice as good mileage, but is not available here.

Parking is a huge plus with such a short (front-to-rear) car in congested urban areas with scarce parking.

The car is made by Mercedes (a German company). The Mini Cooper is made by BMW (also German).

squeak-

Several misconceptions about Mercury were corrected relatively recently.

intelligent-

A laser can be a different color within the visible spectrum (i.e. red, green, blue), as well as above or below it.

squeak-

intelligent-

The specific laser being discussed is projecting its beam where there are no vapors, dusts or smoke in the air. The answer portion states If there is dust, smoke, or mist in the air, you will see that light pass through it. You will see a flashlight beam scattered by these particles and you will also see a laser beam.

The atmosphere can and does distort light to an extent, which is why computer enhancement of satellite photos taken at extreme magnification is helpful, and even necessary in some cases.

Thermal currents can also cause distortion aka heat waves.

Joseph-

Now all I need is a good lightning storm to bring it to life…

Moderators/Editor-

I’d like to add my thanks as well, wish you a freilichen Chanuka,

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give you all a <<repaired>> big hand…

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I’d like to add my thanks as well, wish you a freilichen Chanuka,

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intellegent-

The info below was cut-and-pasted from a discussion about lasers.

It contains a reasonably concise explanation of what I tried to describe above.

Why does the laser not create a beam of light that you can see as it travels through the air to its destination (like a flashlight)?

You can only see light travel across a room if something in the air scatters that light toward you. If there is dust, smoke, or mist in the air, you will see that light pass through it. You will see a flashlight beam scattered by these particles and you will also see a laser beam. In that respect, the two kinds of light are very similar. Some laser beams are so intense that the Rayleigh scattering (the scattering that creates the blue sky) is strong enough to make the beams visible even in perfectly dust-free air. The beams shown in class are not that strong and would only be visible if something in the air scattered their light toward your eyes.

intellegent-

That’s a good point – if there was no atmosphere, the brochos on lightning and thunder (no weather) shiluach hakan (no flying) would also be affected, among many others.

I was specifically asking about Shabbos and Yom Tov.

The answer is – there would be no bain hashmoshos. That means that Shabbos and Yom Tov would be shortened slightly for someone living on the equator, and by a larger amount the further one moved from the equator.

Currently, since the equator is moving fastest, its twilight period is shortest.

Atmospheric refraction is what causes the sky to remain somewhat light after the sun dips below the horizon (and lighten before sunrise), but without it daybreak and nightfall would be instant.

Beams of light traveling thru the air are only visible because of water vapor, smoke or dust in the air that they illuminate, which is what I think is what you meant (the moon, with no atmosphere, has a night and day).

anon for this-

It will never freeze.

Freezing means dropping to 32 degrees, and then losing enough energy to change states to solid.

Energy is lost during evaporation, which can drop the water’s temperature, but once something freezes evaporation can’t occur.

I assume that once water is at a temperature that it wouldn’t change states either way, evaporation would be minimal.

Also, the cold air, even at 0% humidity has a much lower absorbtion capability of water than warm air, so I doubt it would have much of an effect.

Several years ago I read how “wind chill” is measured, but I don’t remember specifics.

I seem to recall that not everyone agrees how it should be measured, or if it is a useless number, since it isn’t really an accurate measurement of how someone bundled up for winter would feel.

Is this the measurement that has two thermometers side-by-side, with the bulb of one in wet cotton, or is that the relative humidity test?