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Message #13350
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: SkavenArmy@cs.com
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 01:29:21 EDT
Subject: Re: Fission and fusion
where in the heck do you guys find this stuff? that sciencewebsite was dang
nipghty , clem.....oh wait , wrong e-mail.....
jz
aspiring genius.....
13351 Tue, 11 Apr 2000 05:48:01 PDT Re: Flowing Glass beam@sgiblab.sgi.com "sebastiaan van Vliet"
Do you know that glass is actually a high (veeeeeeery high) viscosity fluid?
Its true!
>From: Hogfather
>Reply-To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
>To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
>Subject: Flowing Glass
>Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 00:31:55 -0600
>
>
>>I didn't know that! I did learn that glass will flow over time...i.e., a
>>100 year old glass house window will be thicker at
>>the bottom than it is at the top., Whereas new glass windows will be
>>uniform
>>thickness (as well as the process permits).
>
>Sorry, that's one of those urban legend things at least practically
>speaking. In other words glass flows but at a far slower rate than was
>once supposed. The old glaziers knew that they were pretty consistently
>making glass that was not uniform in thickness and simply installed it
>thick side down much like a pyramid so as to provide strength. Although
>people in history didn't have the technology we do today it doesn't follow
>that they weren't clever or didn't know their materials.
>
>
>
>Your Friendly Hogfather
>
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