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Where'd mitlen go?
I'm out.
He couldn't handle the multiple threads.(Image removed from quote.)
That was a clown strike call, ump.
FP, you're totally ass backwards on the humidity thing. Look it up. HUMID AIR IS THINNER THAN DRY AIR!!!Balls travel further in humid air than comparable dry. Period.
C'mon Bryce Desmond, don't let him off the hook!
(Image removed from quote.)Desmond's OBP down to .287
Tie goes to the runner.
Humid air has more mass and exerts more pressure because there are more total molecules in the air. But it is less dense.EDIT: I should say it does have less mass, but exerts more pressure. That's why it feels heavier.
Humidity is a measure of the percentage of water vapor in the air. An increase in humidity has a surprising effect on air density: As humidity increases, air density decreases. In damp air, the large, heavy oxygen and nitrogen molecules are replaced by lighter water molecules, resulting in less density -- in essence, "lighter air." Physicist Paul Doherty explains it this way: "We think of humidity as something that's added to the air on a hot, muggy day. So you might think that a ball would go farther on a dry day than on a humid day. But for every water molecule that we add to the air, we displace a heavier nitrogen or oxygen molecule. Since the addition of humidity actually makes the air less dense, a ball will go farther on a humid day than it will on a dry day." The changes in air density related to humidity are not large: Compared to dry air at the same temperature and pressure, there's only about a 1 percent reduction in density for a humidity of 80 percent.
