Kornelia Schilpsant's Page

["Let m be the Moon, and E the Earth covered with water. As the Moon passes round the Earth, its solid and fluid parts are equally attracted by her influence according to their densities; but while the solid parts are at liberty to move only as a whole, the water obeys the slightest impulse, and thus tends towards the Moon where her attraction is the strongest. Consequently, the waters are perpetually elevated immediately under the Moon. If, therefore, the Earth stood still, the influence of…See More

Sometimes, there are people that seem to thrive on the misery of others. You've got your disaster tourists, you know, those people that see an accident happen and stand there looking without offering help, those people that use police scanners to find out (and visit!) whose home's on fire....And then you encounter them yourself., I'm getting personal now, so I'll continue speaking of I's and me's ;-)Of course, there's a lot going on in my life at the moment, parents in the middle of an ugly…See More