The Little Mysteries of the Universe...

[meridannight]

you never googled it? i did.

ice cubes

i'm not an expert but the following paragraph makes a lot of sense to me:

Conversely, if freezing starts from below at the tray surface, the freezing water has the time and opportunity to lock itself tightly to all parts of that surface. But as the ice continues to grow inward, it tries to expand from all sides at once into the internal space. This creates a lot of stress in the ice, and causes the cube to form a peak at the top due to the internally expanding ice having no place else to go. So, since the ice has both had ample opportunity to freeze tightly to all of the tray surface, and because it was stressed internally as the freezing progressed, the ice cube becomes a disaster when you try to get it out. Much of it sticks to the tray, and the parts that do come out are often cracked.

[MikeW]

you never googled it? i did.

ice cubes

i'm not an expert but the following paragraph makes a lot of sense to me:

Nah, I never googled it. I *like* having mysteries in my life keeps what is otherwise boring and dull at least a tad interesting. But, that sort of makes sense, I suppose.

You know it is so weird. Most things when they get cold they "contract" but ice *expands*. So the bottom cubes expand inward; and they can't do much upward, either, cuz of the tray sitting gone top. OMFG... stressed out ice!

Remarkable isn't it, what the human mind can figure out or at least venture a plausible explanation.

[CarGuy65]

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Remarkable isn't it, what the human mind can figure out or at least venture a plausible explanation.[/QUOTE]

And yet nothing on Junk Shrinkage situations!!

[meridannight]

And yet nothing on Junk Shrinkage situations!!

it's to do with exercising, in fact. not temperature itself.

read this for example:

workout testicles

When you exercise, your circulatory system makes adaptations that result in the shunting of oxygenated blood pumped from the heart toward the working muscles in the arms, legs and trunk. In fact, while 20 percent of cardiac output passes through the muscles at rest, 80 percent is fed through the muscles during all-out exercise. Since there is only so much blood to go around, this shunting occurs at the expense of tissues not in immediately in need of heavy oxygenation, including the genitals. As a result of diminished blood flow, the penis and testicles appear to shrink during and after heavy exercise.

the quote is from that site. i have no idea as to their source for those numbers (the ''80 percent'' seems an exaggeration, even during heavy exercise. i know the brain uses a significant portion of it, i should open my neurobiology texts and look it up), but in broad strokes it sounds credible (i.e. less blood flow to your genitals than under normal circumstances = shrinkage).

[meridannight]

by the way, i always found that the world got more beautiful, amazing, and interesting upon figuring out/discovering the intricacies about the way it works, not the other way around. unexplained ''mysteries'' are dull, since they don't in fact exist. everything has an explanation and a reason why it is the way it is. the term 'mystery' is nonsense.

[MikeW]

by the way, i always found that the world got more beautiful, amazing, and interesting upon figuring out/discovering the intricacies about the way it works, not the other way around. unexplained ''mysteries'' are dull, since they don't in fact exist. everything has an explanation and a reason why it is the way it is. the term 'mystery' is nonsense.

We're very different people. Explanations bore the piss out of me.

As for the junk, as I said before, it's like that when I get to the gym even before I start working out.

[LJay]

So if cold makes water expand you should sit on an ice pack on the way to the gym?

[CarGuy65]

So if cold makes water expand you should sit on an ice pack on the way to the gym?

Oh that's a good one!! Makes sense.

[MikeW]

So if cold makes water expand you should sit on an ice pack on the way to the gym?

Oh that's a good one!! Makes sense.

Yeah, but, well... I don't drive to the gym, I walk. It's about a half mile. That's part of my warm-up. But, unless you're suggesting I have water in my veins, I don't think that's going to work.

[SilverBullet]

oddities in my life....
Here is a major one!
No matter how often I fill up the coffee pot, it seems to always disappear within a couple hours!
Strange that coffee pot is : /