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astrodust on Oct 26, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: First New U.S. Nuclear Reactor in Two Decades to B...

They didn't say how long the hose is. Maybe it's a mile? To the moon and back?

shawn-furyan on Oct 26, 2015 | [–]

I would think the author means flow rate, not static volume. That would be a hopelessly unintuitive, and as you demonstrate, incomplete analogy if it were meant to represent the static volume needed.

jessaustin on Oct 26, 2015 | [–]

I've never seen a garden hose a mile long. Typically they are shorter than 25m.

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