Arkansas Blog

I guess the remaining 0.56% is the air that's whipped into the soap. Floating down this stream of consciousness, pomice is the only rock that floats. This is due to the air pockets suspended in this volcanic stone. Pomice is also mixed into Lava soap. Why doesn't Lava also float?

"NOT A ROCKET: News reports that a Russian rocket fell over the US mid-Atlantic coast on Sunday evening, March 29th, are probably incorrect. A spent Russian rocket booster did reenter Earth's atmosphere on March 29th, but apparently not over the USA. According to data published by US Strategic Command, the reentry occurred near Taiwan (24° N, 125° E) at 11:57 p.m. EDT. So what were those lights in the sky over Maryland and Virginia two hours earlier? Eyewitness accounts of the Atlantic Coast fireball are consistent with a meteoritic bolide--a random asteroid hitting Earth's atmosphere and exploding in flight."
Space Weather.com

.56% =untruth.

I believe the wording was "so pure it floats!"

If Chester is too young to remember that ad phrase then probably doesn't remember Skylab raining down in the late 70's.

I remember UALR had some new "Art" installed in the woods around campus that resembled some of the Skylab parts that survived re-entry.

>>Why doesn't Lava also float?

It's specific gravity is greater than water.

pollen,

Pumice has "closed cell" gas bubbles and weghs less than the water it would displace by volume. That is why it floats. One reason Lava soap does not float is because the pumice is pulverized to mix into the soap and thus the little hollow bubbles are filled and no longer trapping gas causing floatation.

"It's specific gravity is greater than water. "

Well duh. Next you'll tell me that it gets wet 'cause of water.

Now if Pollen's question was a George Carlin irony type statement then I would like to ask, if you make a cow laugh real hard, will milk come out its nose? Also, why does Hawaii have interstate highways?

Surely SOMEONE snickered, at least a little, at my original post. Oh well. My ill-fated attempt at humor incorporated the few dying embers from my logic class. I was stringing together statements with a kernel of truth, and coming up with a conclusion which had no truth whatsoever. 1 + 1 + 1 = 111.

eLwood...thanks for the fascinating link to Space Weather. Now filed under 'favorites' and 'weather'. Learn something new everyday. Ever seen Wall-E? All these things falling from the sky remind me of the scene in that movie where they pan out to show earth surrounded by a brown fur of a gadzillion satellites.

I can envision pumice where the air pockets are so small that they don't disappear entirely in the grinding process.

There are lots of natural processes at work as the air is mixed into the molten rock, and it depends on the fineness of the grind of course.

We might be able to design floating Lava soap. Shoot, we could mix air pockets, so small as to be unnoticeable, in the soap itself.

Will mankind make that advance before a meteor smashes us and sets the planet on fire, destroying us all? Time will tell. 2012 is a year to watch.

The meteor will hit right when Sarah Palin is elected president. On the bright side, we won't have to worry about our retirement funds.