Assume v. Presume

Heard on BBC News this morning:
Captain Erik Scott (LAFD) said:
We have saturated water, it gets under pavements and creates problems.
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The pictures showed a sink hole with a fast running river of water and a couple of cars in the hole. Don't really think this is a saturated liquid as defined in thermodynamics.
What next? Dehydrated water.
 
Mike0001 said:
It made the Times today. It's continental rock, hardly a new continent.
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It's been on the TV news for a couple of days.
According to the BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-39000936
BBC News said:
There is in fact no scientific body that formally recognises continents.
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Zealandia - strange that most of the authors of the paper are from New Zealand. Let them call it a continent for now. It'll soon go the way of Pluto.
 
The concept of "continent" was founded before scientific enlightenment anyway!

Graffiti at Colchester railway station, under the platform sign that reads "Harwich for the Continent"... "Frinton for the incontinent"
 
EEPhil said:
Zealandia - strange that most of the authors of the paper are from New Zealand. Let them call it a continent for now. It'll soon go the way of Pluto.
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There isn't just one, there are two! The other is Mauritia. I leave you to guess what that is named after.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritia_(microcontinent)

So, microcontinent, not dwarf continent. Geology is drifting faster than Trev's humour!
 
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I love the names used for the early land masses: Pangaea, Gondwana, Laurasia, Avalonia...oh no, another microcontinent on your back door if you live in the SW, or the Atlantic coast of N. America.
 
Where are you going to get the pure water from to do the reconstituting with?
Ah, I know - you could use the waste water output from the purifying plant and bottle that.
 
Yes, but think of the postage costs. Dehydrated pure water would be a lot cheaper to deliver, and if we used helium instead of nitrogen in the packaging to stop it going off the postage costs would be reduced further. Plus, when the complaints come in all our customers will sound like Donald Duck so we can all kill ourselves laughing.
 
EEPhil said:
But where are you going to get the pure water from to rehydrate it? You can't just use tap water - it's as bad as "nasty polluted mineral water".
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Ours isn't!

BH has a good point though. Perhaps sell a license to draw rehydrated water from the punter's tap? They can fill their own bottles, no postal costs!

Anyway, helium is hard to contain.
 
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