Re: I decided

"Roger Long" <strider@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> Uh oh.  Don't get me started on Metacenters.  As the name implies they 
> aren't real and nothing makes stability harder to understand from what
is 
> generally written.  I've given many lectures on stability and I usually 
> have to spend the first third of the lecture getting the students to 
> forget all the stuff they read the night before.
>
> Metacenters and metacentric height are very useful calculation shortcuts

> for naval architects but a very poor way to understand the forces 
> involved.
>
> Even buoyancy is imaginary.  Anybody want to try and guess what really 
> holds a boat up?
>
> --
> Roger Long

Bad weather and/or beautiful women.

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