From: usenet@only.tnx   
      
   On Mon, 30 Aug 2021 14:00:25 -0700, Les Albert  wrote:   
   >On Mon, 30 Aug 2021 10:37:48 GMT, usenet@only.tnx (Questor) wrote:   
   >>Is it just me, or do all the sportcasters on the local TV news programs seem   
   to   
   >>be shouting their reports?   
   >   
   >It's not just you.   
      
   Heh heh.  (grin)   
      
      
   >>I have fairly simple desires.  For example, I'd like to live for one full   
   year,   
   >>-- all four seasons -- at Fallingwater.   
   >Better bring an umbrella; the roof of his structures had a reputation   
   >for leaking.   
      
   Still would be worth it, for a year.  I know someone who works for the   
   organization that's reponsible for the property; I'll shoot them an e-mail   
   and ask about its roof.   
      
      
   >>At such point that electric vehicles overwhelmingly dominate the market and   
   >>internal combustion vehicles fade away, the trope of committing suicide by   
   >>locking oneself in the garage and running the engine will disappear as well.   
   >   
   >Electrocution by car charger?   
      
   Is the output of the typical charger sufficient to be certain the intial   
   contact   
   will kill instantly?  Because otherwise that seems like a gruesome way to go,   
   compared to slowly asphyxiating through carbon monoxide poisoning.   
      
      
   >>In the television program "The Green Hornet," his car, the Black Beauty, is   
   >>stored upside down under the garage floor.  I wonder what problems a real car   
   >>might develop if it was stored upside down.   
   >If you are going to run the engine while the car is upside down, the   
   >first thing that comes to mind is that the gas will all be at the top   
   >of the tank, and the fuel pump won't be able to pump it to the engine.   
   >The car mavens advise that the oil system depends on oil flowing DOWN   
   >through the engine, and if it could be run the engine would soon be   
   >destroyed.   
      
   In the show, the cars are stored upside down, but they are apparently only run   
   right side up.  Your response immediately brings to mind two problems.  There   
   are a lot of fluids in a car, and the various components that contain them may   
   not do so when they're upside down.  And if you don't have that leakage, when   
   you turn the car right side up, you'll have to wait until all the fluids,   
   particularly the oil, flow back down to wherever.   
      
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