I've heard that but have a very hard time believing it. After last night's snow and cleaning out the 4 foot high bank the snowplow left in my driveway.:(
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I've heard that but have a very hard time believing it. After last night's snow and cleaning out the 4 foot high bank the snowplow left in my driveway.:(
at my house we always clear the side of the road before our driveway, that way the plow dumps all its snow before our driveway. it works for the most part until the plow driver sees it as meaning he needs to get closer to the edge of the road
Yeah, I thought about that but figured the driver would find another way too. I used to use a bobcat but got rid of it last year because it was a little overkill now that I moved to a lesser driveway. Sure wish I had it back now.
Well first you have to have a nucleation site ie a dust particle, then the ice begins to form into hexagonal prisms then... nevermind they are all just different, honest.
Depends on your definition of snowflake and alike :p
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/s...like/alike.htm
Another interesting point of probable uniqueness is shuffled decks of cards..
http://www.matthewweathers.com/year2...ling_cards.htm
None of this is helping me keep the driveway clear of snow.
See John C.'s post about useless knowledge. :D No one knows if they are not alike until you compare them all.
I think this is the guy that did the photographs in the book we own. An interesting site anyway. http://snowflakebentley.com/ You can kill a couple hours there not shoveling snow.
Last time I tried to verify that the darn things kept melting. :eek:
That foot or so we got last week has finally just about all melted.
Got an inch or two here last week, but a couple of 45-60 degree days killed it off in short order... happily, too.
I can only hope it stays that way...
How does anyone know this? We can know that flakes are different but how do we know for sure that no two are the same. Obviously, we haven't looked at all of them. Same thing applies to finger prints.
Attachment 221208Attachment 221209Now if I could get everybody to take a bucket home with them to compare. I could sell my snowblower!
Assuming all the flakes so far have been different, it looks like even under chaos theory that eventually either two flakes would be the same or it stops snowing.
Personally, I think some that have fallen have been the same. We had a light snow with small flakes a few weeks ago. A lot of flakes fell and melted too quickly for me to check them, but several of them looked alike to me. I think a lot of scientists are just trying to impress us, perhaps to get more research grants.