A Thread For Absurd And Absurdist Questions Of A Questionable Nature

[Hilde]

Yggdrasil, I didn't know you could go beyond it.

[Bennn]

Are you brave enough to try?

[Laudate_Dominum]

[quote name='txdinghysailor' date='10 April 2010 - 06:56 AM' timestamp='1270896997' post='2090362']
At what point during the quenching of a 1045 steel alloy does martensite, ferrite, and cementite form in equal carbon compositions?
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I've forged a bit of hardware in my day but what is this fancy talk? I wish I knew the answer.

[quote name='notardillacid' date='10 April 2010 - 09:19 AM' timestamp='1270905567' post='2090379']
Your jealousy is showing...
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Lawl!

[Hilde]

Can there be life beyond the tree of life?

[txdinghysailor]

[quote name='Laudate_Dominum' date='10 April 2010 - 07:22 PM' timestamp='1270938150' post='2090640']
I've forged a bit of hardware in my day but what is this fancy talk? I wish I knew the answer.


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Well basically austenite, martensite, and stuff are different phases of steel. 1045 steel is a carbon-steel that has .45 wt % carbon.

[Bennn]

[quote name='Hilde' date='11 April 2010 - 12:26 AM' timestamp='1270938376' post='2090642']
Can there be life beyond the tree of life?
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Someone's mixing mythology with Biblical truths.

[Marie-Therese]

[quote name='txdinghysailor' date='10 April 2010 - 06:26 PM' timestamp='1270938393' post='2090644']
Well basically austenite, martensite, and stuff are different phases of steel. 1045 steel is a carbon-steel that has .45 wt % carbon.
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Hence my previous answer (which may or may not be correct...)

[quote name='Marie-Therese' date='10 April 2010 - 02:30 PM' timestamp='1270924244' post='2090507']
At the austenite grain boundaries?
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[txdinghysailor]

[quote name='Marie-Therese' date='10 April 2010 - 09:21 PM' timestamp='1270945270' post='2090692']
Hence my previous answer (which may or may not be correct...)
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It's partly correct. I'm impressed.

[Marie-Therese]

[quote name='txdinghysailor' date='10 April 2010 - 08:26 PM' timestamp='1270945567' post='2090697']
It's partly correct. I'm impressed.
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Don't be. It's all about quick wit, a knowledge of research, and quick draw google skills.

I have a very limited metallurgical knowledge, mostly my experience in that area is from chemistry and not engineering.

[jeffpugh]

[quote name='Hilde' date='10 April 2010 - 04:27 PM' timestamp='1270931234' post='2090562']
Yggdrasil, I didn't know you could go beyond it.
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Lullz.

[goldenchild17]

[quote name='Laudate_Dominum' date='06 April 2010 - 03:03 PM' timestamp='1270587799' post='2087876']
QUERY I.

Some of the old demonologies mention goblins, hobgoblins, werewolves, and various other legendary creatures as though they are real. Could a Catholic believe in such things or might they be explicitly condemnations somewhere? I know that some churchmen have condemned belief in some legendary creatures but I can't recall anything that is other than private opinion on the matter.

If belief in, say, werewolves, is in fact heretical, isn't it a crime to pretend with kids that such things are real? T'would be somewhat like pretending that Martin Luther is a saint only to spring the terrible truth on them when they're deemed "old enough." Similarly, if belief in goblins turns out to have been condemned as vile heresy or pagan devilry, should not the Lord of the Rings books be placed on the Index?

If belief in the fairies of folklore and legend is not condemned, I must, for fun's sake, entertain the possibility of their reality; at least goblins, werewolves, brownies, gnomes and pixies.
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Not exactly from a Catholic. But fun reads nonetheless:

[url="http://books.google.com/books?id=fpaCCyGuMqwC&printsec=frontcover&dq=vampires+his+kith+his+kin&cd=1#v=onepage&q=vampires%20his%20kith%20his%20kin&f=false"]The Vampire, his Kith and Kin[/url]

[url="http://books.google.com/books?id=g2_vfYCPy6kC&pg=PA325&lpg=PA325&dq=the+werewolf+in+lore+and+legend+montague+summers+online&source=bl&ots=0LysjTb1_V&sig=W1Vlx9JBr5KRhFvG3KYR_5PrnnE&hl=en&ei=pxvCS_a8C4H68AaNwojXCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAUQ6AEwADgK#v=onepage&q&f=false"]The Werewolf in Lore and Legend[/url]

[jeffpugh]

L_D, should a Latinist learn Cyrillic?

[Laudate_Dominum]

[quote name='Sacred Music Man' date='11 April 2010 - 09:21 PM' timestamp='1271035285' post='2091287']
L_D, should a Latinist learn Cyrillic?
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I'm inclined to answer in the affirmative but I'd have to ask the fish to be sure.

[laetitia crucis]

[quote name='Laudate_Dominum' date='12 April 2010 - 09:05 PM' timestamp='1271117131' post='2092031']
I'm inclined to answer in the affirmative but I'd have to ask the fish to be sure.
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Maybe he'll come online soon. Then you can ask him.

[jeffpugh]

[quote name='Laudate_Dominum' date='12 April 2010 - 08:05 PM' timestamp='1271117131' post='2092031']
I'm inclined to answer in the affirmative but I'd have to ask the fish to be sure.
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Interesting... I hope my question wasn't too straight-forward for this thread.