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So holding the roll in place will prevent the roll from spinning - dispensing the product.Engineer you're over thinking this

Good Lord you are worse than talking to my kids!

Holding the roll in place doesn't prevent it from spinning, it prevents it from coming out of the box.  It still spins, the tabs are just pins at either end of a cylinder, around which that cylinder can continue to spin freely.  They prevent the roll from coming out of the box when you're tugging on the sheet material.

This is about the stoopidest ongoing discussion I've had on a message board in at least 10 years.  Thanks for that!


And yes Fearless, the tabs could certainly be deployed before shipping.  That would take one extra machine and one extra step. So there's your answer.

Yeah, a "mole" of gaseous molecules takes up the same volume (ideally), so a lighter gas (molecular weight) will be less dense than a heavier gas.

Humid air "feels" heavy, but it isn't.  This is a small correction factor in flying, usually ignored.

The temperature of air cools off about 4.5°F for every thousand feet of altitude.  

If you know the dew point and the current temperature, you can approximate the bottoms of cumulus clouds in the air.

The term "knots" is used because it is related closely to degrees of longitude and latitude. 

Does humid air feel heavy because the moisture mixture in the air isn't plain gas, and so our lungs 'feel' it?  Is the moisture in the air absorbed by our clothes, thus feeling 'heavier'?

Hmmm.  Looks like a joke.

Have you known anyone who has tried it?  I think it would create a brown, dead spot as large as the area where you distributed this "fertilizer."

Per Wikipedia, a nautical mile was defined as one minute of latitude along any line of longitude. 

Per Wikipedia, a nautical mile was defined as one minute of latitude along any line of longitude.

Yep.

My question was not about what it is, but how the name"knot" came about.

Yep.

My question was not about what it is, but how the name"knot" came about.

I presume you know, right?  The sailing ships would calculate speed using a knotted rope lain along side the ship in the water to get "water speed".  The knots were separated by a standard length and a sailor would count as they passed it, one knot, two knots, etc.