Bruce L. Bergman wrote:
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 07:39:28 +0700, wrote:
On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:10:37 -0800, Winston
wrote:
Bruce L. Bergman wrote:
On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 11:20:46 -0800, Winston
wrote:
(...)
If it was, one would expect to see pots exploding underneath
people all the time. (No, I'm not going to do those experiments.)
--Winston
Errr.... The bathroom sink (the one you run hot water in to shave) is
likely made by the same people that made the "throne". Are we to stop
shaving with hot water because of "thermal fear"? Or, perhaps the
threat of fracture is being over stated?
Odds are long, but it could happen - Toilets usually don't get
thermally stressed at all,
They are under daily thermal stress, yes?
If we've really lowered our threshold to include stress produced
by a diffuse transition of +60 F over a period of 5 seconds
(12 F per second), then the +39 F transition concentrated in a
much smaller area over a period of 50 mS or so (780 F per second!)
involved in the famous "#2 operation" must endanger our commodes
every morning.
and if there is a hidden defect under that
glaze it could be just enough...
Meh. I don't buy it, Bruce.
--Winston
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And yet, she does not explode! -- Attributed to Galileo