Your Boat, your CPU, and a Yard Stick

[spartonboat1]

This is fun facts for the purely geeks on this site. Don't read past here, if techie nonsense bores you. This is wintertime stuff...

If you have a modern PC, the CPU runs at about 3GHz (3 billion clicks...sorry) per second, which has a wavelength of a meter or yard, while your boat floats on water. The reason water is a liquid most of the year (except in the GL's in winter), is that the dissociation rate of water molecules is also about 3Ghz, i.e. water molecules make and break bonds at about the same rate as your PC CPU cycles. If the trillions and trillion of water molecules stopped making/breaking bonds at 3Ghz per second, no more waves, just mud. And we thought the Ferretti hit hard waves!

Also, the modern big computers (called massively parallel) that have 10's, hundreds, even thousands of CPU's, cannot have their CPU's more than a yard apart, because of that 1 meter wavelength. Once those CPU's are more than a meter apart, then they start waiting for answers, instead of getting answers on time. And now there are 5Ghz CPU's, so the CPU's can only be about 2 feet apart. So those moron boaters who won't answer your calls that they are behaving 'stupidly', must have brain CPU's very far apart.

So what keeps your boat floating and looking good jumping waves, is all that water jumping out of the way, one molecule at a time, at the same speed that your CPU is working.

Really wintertime stuff, eh!!!

 

[Jaxfishgyd]

Wow.... I see I'm not a geek and should not of read beyond the first paragraph like you said...Was 71 here yesterday...

 

[Bob Bradley]

Absolutely correct.

 

[DLCameron2]

Quincy...for God's sake let's talk about starting those 6-71's on ether or something dangerous.....that posting is ...well i do not know how to describe it.

DC

 

[SeaEric]

After noting the time stamp on the original post- I have decided to log back at that same time of day, after some (many) beverages, and then decide if it all makes sense to me.

 

[SKYCHENEY]

That reminds me of my dad's 43DC. He used to store it at Walstroms in Harbor Springs every winter. When we went to pick it up in the spring, we'd always have a can of ether handy to get 'em to fire up in April. He'd stand at the helm, while I went below to give those 671's a shot of ether.

 

[spartonboat1]

That reminds me of my dad's 43DC. He used to store it at Walstroms in Harbor Springs every winter. When we went to pick it up in the spring, we'd always have a can of ether handy to get 'em to fire up in April. He'd stand at the helm, while I went below to give those 671's a shot of ether.

When I was younger I remember an old timer (that would be my age now) trying to start his Hatt in Harbor Springs in the springtime, without much luck. I think that persuaded me to install block heaters at a young age (50's that is). Of course with good compression they start pretty quick, even when cold.

 

[spartonboat1]

Quincy...for God's sake let's talk about starting those 6-71's on ether or something dangerous.....that posting is ...well i do not know how to describe it.
DC

Well, I look at it this way- God put the clock speed on the water molecules and no amount of modern science or the guvmint can change it, thank heavens. There's reality TV, but this was about reality boating.

And I was nice to all of you, because I didn't bring up 'cloud computing'...yet another new buzz phrase sweeping the computer world. In fact, I am monitoring a week long forum starting tomorrow about 'cloud computing'.

So maybe I should start a thread about not cleaning my crap cans (airbox drain traps) and whether that increases my oil consumption, which I think it does. So that is a project next summer. Never been done in 11 years (now that will also probably get me flamed).