Random Analogies

Understanding The Solar Cycle

a: Solar cycle ~
b: Human Heart beat

What: "We should give the solar guys a bit of a break here, we seem happy to taunt when someone's estimate falls flat. I don't get that. An analogy I read somewhere is that understanding the solar cycle is like a doctor trying to understand how the human heart works on the basis of 23 heartbeats, and only having a decent stethoscope for the last 4 or 5."

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Writer: Dan
LCC: QB
Where:
Date: Jun 12 2010 7:41 AM


Huhmm Boom

a: Atlanta ~
b: a cannon

What: "Atlanta is like a cannon, drawing in people from the eastern half of the US and spewing them out to the West Coast. (With a notable exception in southern CA.) Seems like everyone is moving to Austin and no one is leaving."

Useful?
Writer: stcredzero
LCC:
Where:
Date: May 5 2012 1:33 AM



a: Integrons ~
b: freigth trains

What:

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Useful?
Writer: Not Stated
LCC:
Where:
Date: Jan 9 2015 4:25 PM



a: safe sex ~
b: swimming

What:

"I had better get to the meat of this post soon before I start talking about mailing people condoms because safe sex is like swimming- everyone should know how to do it."


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Writer: Not Stated
LCC:
Where:
Date: Mar 4 2015 3:10 PM



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