Random Analogies

On A Car Frame Or Body....

a: Corrosion ~
b: vehicular cancer

What: "Corrosion is like vehicular cancer; once it develops on a vehicle it can spread quickly, even when visible spots have been cut out and repaired."

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Writer: pat loff
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Date: Dec 6 2012 12:02 PM


A Tennis Ball Analogy

a: Fluorescence ~
b: throwing a tennis ball against the wall

What: Fluorescence is the result of light energy hitting electrons on a molecule, raising them to a higher state, and then as the electrons fall to a lower energy state, they emit light energy that is of a higher wavelength and lower energy state. This affect is scene often on clothing treated with optical brighteners. To use a ball analogy, it's like throwing a tennis ball against a wall. The collision with the wall transforms the tennis ball into a basketball. The larger basketball then bounces off in some other direction.

Useful?
Writer: LucyShui
LCC:
Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: Aug 21 2013 6:40 PM



a: Startups ~
b: F1 cars

What:

"Startups are like F1 cars on a race track. You can drive them slow, not crash and complete the race or you can drive them fast, risk crashing and Win! "


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Writer: Not Stated
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Where:
Date: Aug 5 2014 4:07 PM



a: my heart ~
b: La Brea Tar Pit

What:

It dark and deep
and full of mud and tar and
tar and mud
round and long
short and sweet
full of decomposing vegetation
and some of those animals that
once roamed there and here


Useful?
Writer: Lucrezia
LCC:
Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: Oct 19 2014 1:47 PM



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