Day 55 Opelusas rest day

I have long considered that for a European, the most amazing thing about America is, indeed, the trains. I think your video bears that out!

I felt curious about this train, so i have count the wagons: 114 wagons, to fit containers of 14 meters long each, ufff, how long in total? a mile, maybe more......

It's a pity the travelblog people jumble the order that things happened in. Maybe they will realise this and take the Texan train out of Louisiana and put it back in Texas?!!

Cesar, if the wagons are 14m long and there are 114 of them, then given that there are 1.609 kilometres in a mile, the train was 1.008 miles long. Well done! Furthermore, if the clip took 92 seconds for the train to pass, it must have been travelling at approximately 39.13 miles per hour. Now if the train had been full of eels, it might have been a different storey.

Now tell me this Ivor the Engine! Three men have a meal on a moving train, all three of them have the eel’s which cost $10 each or $30 in total. One of the men is unhappy with his meal as the eel’s were not in a hovercraft sauce. The chef offers to give them $5 back but the waitress only gives them $3 making each meal come to $9. And yet $9 x 3=$27 plus the $2 the waitress kept=$29 where is the missing dollar? The more eel’s you eat the more money you save! Yours Confused Ray Liotta

It's quite simple really. The hydrostatic absolute deformation potential (ADP) of the valence-band maximum state is one of the most important properties of semiconductors. Yet, it has been calculated in the past only using assumptions that have not been rigorously approved. Because we have already established the velocity of the moving train, we present an approach to calculate the hydrostatic ADP of Si, GaAs, and ZnSe, relative to the eels, using an ab initio all-electron method and lattice harmonic expansions. We show that the calculated ADP is independent of the selection of the reference energy levels of the hovercraft sauce. The calculated ADPs are all positive for the chef, the waitress and the initial bill payment. However, as the p-d coupling increases in the II-VI compounds, the ADP decreases, and we are left with the missing dollar.

Please forgive me interjecting the obvious fun, Ivor and his boy friend are having, but at the invitation of mutual good friends Gabe and Maureen. The recent blog comments have been brought to my attention. As a research scientist at the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. I enjoy more than a passing interest in the species "Anguilla rostrata" or more commonly known as the common American eel. It is with keen interest that I viewed the long train clip and both endulged my intersest in locomotive and marine diversity. For those who know the patterns of evolution of DNA transposons, tested samples of the American eel (nominally rostrata anguilla) are highly distinct from European. rostrata in mtDNA genotype (distinguishable by 114 restriction endonucleases). Indeed the restriction of the endonucleases are in turn restricted by the pull of the ester bonds and in the case of the Americal eel the pulling of ester transcription is limited to three. See any similarity yet...3 pulling and 114 encoded. This train certainly is full of eels! Currently I will be turning the over eager minds of the undergraduates into the mapping of the hovercraft sauce. Yours MM