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[almostfree]

Gates of Fire is an excellent novel. I am glad to hear you recommend it. Have you read Killing Rommel or The Profession? I found both of them to be enjoyable reads as well.

[bjvinson]

I picked up Death in the Silent Places by accident one night and didn't put it down until I finished it. Capstick was a great story teller.

[Christopher Button]

Thanks for the reading recommendations, Rip. Do I need to read Gates of Fire if I've already seen the movie 300?

(Just kidding)

[Mark Rippetoe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx2473lz-9Y

[pacificmonk]

Awesome video. But it isn't 0 degrees Kelvin. It's 0 Kelvin.

Sorry I'm annoying.

[Mark Rippetoe]

The Kelvin scale doesn't have degrees?

[Gunnhild Bruno]

The Kelvin scale doesn't have degrees?

No, it doesn't. People give different reasons for this, but I've found that the best explanation is simply linguistic. The unit when measuring temperature in Fahrenheit and Celsius is a degree (there is no such unit as a fahrenheit or a celsius), so what is being measured is the number of degrees, with the F and C serving to clarify which kind of degree is being used. With Kelvin, what is being measured is the number of kelvins.

FWIW, "°K" would have been correct before 1968.

[MarineTom]

It does not, due to the absolute nature of Kelvin. And that's about all I remember from Physical Chemistry lecture.

[Mark Rippetoe]

What a wonderful board we have here.

[George Christiansen]

For some reason I was expect Cormac McCarthy to make your list of favorites.

Do you care for his stuff?