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Re: Hot Paper?
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Date: 
Tue, 28 Nov 2000 15:31:50 GMT
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mattdm@mattdm.orgSAYNOTOSPAM
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Dave Schuler <orrex@excite.com> wrote:
For that matter, even in its approximate vacuum, the sunward face of
Mercury is hot enough to boil lead.

Sure, it'll get hot, but boiling is way different from burning.

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  Re: Hot Paper?
 
(...) Now we're getting somewhere! But what would happen to the paper once it got that hot? That's what I was trying to get at in the first place... Dave! (24 years ago, 28-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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(...) Okay, you caught me on my technical imprecision. More precisely, I mean simply an evacuated chamber in which, I suppose, one could position IR lamps over the aforementioned paper sheet. For that matter, even in its approximate vacuum, the (...) (24 years ago, 28-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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