Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #07243
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: harsh@lanl.gov
Date: 01-Nov-99,Time: 12:52:48
Subject: [alt-beam] name of PBS special??
7244 Mon, 01 Nov 1999 17:11:15 -0400 [alt-beam] Re: aquabot alt-beam@egroups.com michael.hirtle@ns.sympatico.ca (Michael Hirtle) The thing with useing alcohol is that if u design a bot to swim around i=
n
water and then deside to put it in alcohol the bot won't be as buoyant as=
if it
were in water because the density of alcohol if less then water
John Leo Zimmer wrote:
> Maybe something altogether other than water?
> Mineral oil, Antifreeze, Alcohol...?
> They'd all have different effects/problems.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Greg Powell
> To:
> Sent: Saturday, October 30, 1999 3:29 PM
> Subject: Re: aquabot
>
> | What if I put distilled water in the graduated cylinder and a thin la=
yer
> of
> | oil on the top. Thus no bacteria and no evaporation or contamination,=
yet
> | light still gets in.
> |
> | Greg
> |
>
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