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Re: Hot Paper?
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Tue, 28 Nov 2000 15:41:24 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Matthew Miller writes:
> 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.

  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!



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(...) Note that I think the LDEF had some paper/cardboard panels, you might try spelunking the NASA site for the writeup on what happened to them. I could be misremembering, maybe LDEF only had metal and plastic panels. But there were over 500 of (...) (26 years ago, 28-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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(...) Sure, it'll get hot, but boiling is way different from burning. (26 years ago, 28-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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