Adding Fuel to the Nitrate Debate: Why Water Changes DONT Reduce Nitrates

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But degrees don't impress me, I've met many idiots with great degrees.
Amen Brother!

As I have said before, the person at the bottom of the class gets the same piece of paper as the person at the top of the class. What comes out of your mouth gives your true measure.
 
by the way, you still have to respect a PhD. They don't give those away to just anyone. A person with an average IQ will stand about a snowballs chance in Hell just trying to get into grad school.

and Shekes probably has one of these...and knows how to use it:
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I was not trying to impress you. It was my last resort to make you think. I am not sure I'll bother explaining anything to you ever again.
Don't feel that way! This board needs more thinker makerer people (where would we be without college graduate "even C students can become Preznit" Dubya Bush). (Gotta love the guy...he is even better than Dan Quaile.)

Honestly, your posts and thinking are great!!! You and Guiness are just splitting hairs, that is all. I loved the analogies and examples, just so ya know.

All of the asymptote talk got me thinking of an example that my high school chemistry teacher used (20 years ago, mind you). If you have a dump truck full of sand and you add or subtract a teaspoon, is anyone going to care? Will it make a difference on any scale that you can put the truck on? If the teaspoon of sand was put on your lunch, would you notice?

The last one is mine, just to accentuate Relativity. Albert Einstin defined relativity like this:
"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. That's Relativity."

I don't remember exactly how Kelly Bundy defined it, but you really don't want to know...
 
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Still at it?!

Lynch me! Keep it coming! :thumbsup:

His best one was if you had a carpet and cut one square foot out and the remaining was cut into specific sized shapes and triangles, rearranged and sewn (taped) back together...you would get the same size as the original carpet plus the one square foot. Doing this the number of times as the square footage of the carpet would give you two of the original carpets.

Man! You should run to an ATM an get yourself a few $100 bills and scissors! :grinyes:
 
Neither do I.
And I am also not impressed by degrees. It appears that I still have to learn to spend my time on more perceptive and grateful audiences.:naughty:

Rapair,

I know you want to be like me but I am not even flattered.:thumbsup:

Eeewwww, yer good!
 
One of my previous roommates was a Phd and math professor (go figure). He had some math tricks that he came up with and the math would always lie. His best one was if you had a carpet and cut one square foot out and the remaining was cut into specific sized shapes and triangles, rearranged and sewn (taped) back together...you would get the same size as the original carpet plus the one square foot. Doing this the number of times as the square footage of the carpet would give you two of the original carpets. Obviously this can not be done but the math said it could. I asked several other math professors and the best answer I got that wasn't a confused stare was it violated Pythagoreans Theorem, but he couldn't tell me why.


Here is one in circular math:

Three men went to a hotel to get a room for the night,the night clerk charged them $30 for the room, so each man gave the clerk $10 ( 3 x 10 = 30).
The day manager comes into work, and realizes that the men had been overcharged, the room should only have cost $25 for the night.
The manager summons a bellhop and says take $5 and gave it back to the three men in the room. The bellhop is dishonest, gives each man back $1 and keeps $2 for himself.
So now each man has paid $9 for the room and the bellhop has $2 but (3 X 9) + 2 = 29. we started out with $30 so where is the missing dollar?

& yes i know the answer :grinyes:

It is better to do math without numbers, numbers confuse people. The numbers can be added in later
 
WC is good. He said it don't reduces nitrate, whil in his calculation, evertime he does wc, nitrate went down. Until it stabilizes to 10. Now, if you do twice a wk water change, that's even better.
 
well with the attitude you have had on pretty much every post you have ever posted why don't you take you degree and attitude to an audience that is more like you.. :banhim:
That was way too harsh dude...There really is a place in this world for people with degrees. You wouldn't want a non-degreed engineer on your construction site in charge of your safety would you?

Nothing magical happens on the day someone gets a degree, but the process of getting there weeds out a bunch that don't cut the mustard.

So what do you call a Civil Engineer that couldn't pass the exam?
 
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