How to Calculate Diameter and Height of a Pressure Sand Filter

Good, good. Here's another one for you:

"How far can a man walk into the woods?"

OH. I know, I know.

All the way.

I'll bet you thought I was going to say halfway.

Sorry that is incorrect, IQ got it right.

"Halfway in, after that, he's walking out of the woods."

Au contraire, hairlip!

He walked ALL the way INTO the woods, at the halfway point he could walk no further INTO the woods.

At the halfway point, he would begin walking OUT OF the woods, so he would no longer be waling into the woods!

I demand my NoPrize, too!!!!

The problem here is thinking of 'in' a a destination or a location.

'In' is actually a direction, or a facing.

You can walk a quarter of the way in to the woods, turn around and walk out, which is the same as walking a quarter of the way THROUGH the woods and turning around.

'Through' goes all the way, but 'in' and 'out' are just directions along 'through.'

It wasn't like I asked what sort of bear you'd see out the window of a house with an all Northern exposure?

Does the radius of a circle not go all the way to the middle? I will not reach my cabin in the middle of the woods if I only walk half way into the woods. I am not obligated to walk any further once I hike all the way into the woods and reach my destination.

Ah, but where is the 'middle of the woods'? Is it the geometric 'center of mass when viewed from a satellite photo? Is it where you are after following a path until you cannot see what is 'outside' the woods? Is it where you are standing when you realize that you're completely lost?

All this argument about what is essentially a 'one hand clapping' question. This reminds me of a story:

A Buddhist monk went to visit Conney Island, and while there he came across a hot dog vendor. The monk then said "Make me One with Everything."

The vendor rolled his eyes at the obvious pun and proceeded to build the hot dog. The monk gratefully accepted the local delicacy and handed over a twenty dollar bill.

And waited.

And waited.

His much-celebrated patience nearing its end, he says to the vendor, "I think you forgot my change."

The vendor replied, "Don't you remember, All Change must come from Within."

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"Thank you, I'll be here all week. Don't forget to tip your waitstaff, they work hard for their money; after all, they HAVE to be here listening to me every show, and these jokes don't get fresher on the third retelling of the evening."

No, No No. The radius only goes from the center point of a circle to one edge. And if your cabin was in the middle of the woods, you would only need to walk half way in to your cabin. If you walk half way to your cabin you have only walked a quarter of the way.

English language, is just so lov-e-ly. Awesomely fine I believe.

Yes, English is such a fine and flexible language, where words can so easily be twisted into new meanings.

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An English Teacher was talking in front of his class, "In English, two negatives in a sentence cancel out and make a positive statement, in other languages, two negatives in a sentence make a negative statement. However, in no language will you find two positives in a sentence making a negative statement."

A student in the back of the class loudly popped her gum and called out "Yeah, right."

Nice change to have banter here!

Feeling generous today. You can have half a thumb Tom!

If my cabin is in the middle of a plot of woods, I'd have to walk all the way into the woods to get there, so Lyn is not technically incorrect.

The problem here is thinking of 'in' a a destination or a location.

'In' is actually a direction, or a facing.

You can walk a quarter of the way in to the woods, turn around and walk out, which is the same as walking a quarter of the way THROUGH the woods and turning around.

'Through' goes all the way, but 'in' and 'out' are just directions along 'through.'

It wasn't like I asked what sort of bear you'd see out the window of a house with an all Northern exposure?

The woods begin at the perimeter, after you enter the perimeter you are in the woods....You can walk around indefinitely in any direction, but you are never out of the woods until you cross the perimeter line....$.002

Well said.

Now if I can only find my way out of the woods of this linguistic debate I've found myself mired in.

And the bonus question is.........can we use the 'lost in the woods scenario' to... calculate diameter and height of the pressure sand filter?

I conclude, NOT!

QED

Enough of this Tomfoolery and nonsense.

Here's what I suggest:

One per pound of crud per cycle, with a minimum of two and a spare.

Oh goody, a 2016 Full house Dalek. Pimp my ride dude!!!

Only half way as when he reaches half way he is walking out again!

Correct, you win a genuine NoPrize, the same model Stan Lee used to give out in the letters page on marvel Comics:

Oh Goodly Moodly, Can I get a reference now and keep the thumb?

I found it on a Google image search for "Stan Lee thumbs up."

The site that claimed to have the image was instead showing what I believe to be a 'no hotlinking' image, to I just copied the thumbnail from the google search to use.

So no thumb, just a nail? Now I have been swizzed....