I must need to brush up on my German. I thought kotzen happened at the other end of the horse.
Maybe you had it mixed up with “Kot” or “koten”, respectively. “Kot” is the polite word for “shit”, and “koten” is the verb.
Undoubtedly. I’m sure many 2L speakers of German do this.
Can English “coming out of both ends” be rendered in German “kotzen und koten”? Or inverse the order if it’s pithier.
I would have preferred the name John over my given name, despite how common it is. For some reason I’ve always liked the name, and it fits better with my last name. (No, it isn’t Smith). Another plus is that you can just be “John” at all times and you don’t need a different nickname (the Richard/Dick or Robert/Bob situation). But changing it’s just too much of a bother.
Although that doesn’t necessarily mean the four points of equal height would be stable; they might all be peaks which the legs would tend to slide off of.
No, that’s not a common saying in German, though everybody would understand it. We rather say “es kommt aus allen Löchern”, literally “it comes out of every hole”.
ETA: to explain a little further, the expression “kotzen und koten” doesn’t really work because there’s a disconnect between the two verbs. “Kotzen” is the colloquial word for “to vomit” (“sich erbrechen” being the polite word), while “koten” rather is a clinical, neutral term. “Kotzen und scheißen” works better.
Having found two antipodes on the equator with equal temperature, I suspect you could move north and south (although not due north and south) and find additional points of equal temperature. They wouldn’t be the same temperature as the first two points on the equator, but they would equal their antipodes. In that way, you could create a line around the earth that had the same temperature as their antipodes. It wouldn’t be a perfect circumference like the equator, but it would be an unbroken, symmetrical line around the earth.
With that, the same process you used to prove the first two points of equal temperature could now find two antipodes of equal pressure.
I suspect the proof of this theorem goes something like that.
Here is a relatively simple proof.
Your technique does not guaranty a continuous function.
that would prob. be “Speiben und scheissen” or truer yet, “g’spibm und g’schissn”, south of the Weisswurst-Equator. The mountain folks would not bei doing any kotzen.
It’s “speihen” south of the Main, not “speiben”, but otherwise you are correct.
It took me slightly longer than I’d like to admit to get it…
but this seems like a very worthwhile random fact to share …
In general - wouldn’t one of your equatorial antipodes be in daylight, and the other in the dark - tending to yield different temperatures?
My hometown of Haifa, Israel has an underground funicular, the Carmelit, whichgoes up and down the Carmel mountain. It is simultaneously one of the longest funicular systems in the world, and possibly the smallest metropolitan subway system.
and given the dynamics of a funicular it makes for quite efficient track-laying … (there is only a short space of overlap b/ween the 2 cars - for the remainder of the distance you just need 1 track)
Here the funicular from Santiago:
The population density of Gaza has been in the news lately. But this CNN article pointed out that Gaza City, with a density of 21,000 people per square mile, is only 1/4 as dense as Dhaka, Bangladesh. A bit of googling showed that Manila, Philippines, is the most densely populated city in the world, with about 110,000 people per square mile. That’s one 16-foot-square patch of land per person. Multi-story buildings mean there’s more floor space than this implies, but roads, rails, parks, and parking lots also take away from that. If everybody goes outside at once, it’s gonna be crowded.
Heck, NYC is 29,000, but it absolutely requires building upwards in order to give people the space they need.
Not Mount Washington, but Great Blue Hill south of Boston erupted one day on an April first news broadcast in 1980. Even with the news reporter holding up a sign at the end of the story saying “April Fools!” there was panic because people around the hill didn’t watch the whole segment, instead running out into the streets. Executive producer got fired. Okay, so Mount St. Helens did erupt a week earlier.
If both points are near the terminator they would both be in twilight, though more likely one point would be in mid-morning, having had enough time to absorb some heat from the sun, while the other point would be shedding the heat from the day. The coldest time of day is right about sunrise while the warmest time of day is a few hours before sunset, so it makes sense that there would be matching temperatures at some opposition – not always antipodal, but somewhere.
As the tallest hill near Boston, it was a good location for a TV and radio broadcast antenna. Hence the Boston PBS station became WGBH.