>Message #: 4
>Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 16:37:38 +0100
>From: Dan Logan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Keepin' it cool
>
>>Isn't this illegal?
>
>Yep, but so's trying to melt holes through them with Thermite - If they
>don't melt, the surface ends up with a lovely rainbow effect...
>
>>(In my high school chemistry class we did a cool "experiment" where we took
>>a shiny new penny, scraped an edge to expose some of the zinc, and then
>>dropped it in a weak HCl solution. HCl reacts with zinc, but not copper.
>>In a day or so the HCl had completely eaten the zinc out of the penny,
>>leaving a copper shell.
LOL. This is one of the funniest things I have read on this list.
Please,...don't look to where I live, you guys scare me.
> Awful shame that we
>have a nervous system that senses heat and translates that to discomfort
>is such a situation. But it's a minor drawback.
Especially you, ...the Thermite guy, the guy above,...he I hope
doesn't live near me.
On the other hand, this guy doesn't scare me,...but I hope I see him
on television.
>The way I see it, it
>will also help develop superior mind/body control much like the far Eastern
>cultures who can walk over a bed of hot coals with no pain or blistering on
>their feet! Imagine one day the shock of a crowd in New Delhi as I sit at
>the center, my pants off, with a raging 700MHz Pentium III laptop sitting
>for hours on my lap, all the while grinning painlessly!
No kidding this has been very funny, thanks.
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