@jamesb@fedi.duckduckpigeon.co.uk
Post #2758128
2026-04-10 23:49 UTC
@_thegeoff@mastodon.social "Yeah, it's getting up to 400 degrees C because of things you wouldn't understand"
It's close enough. Let people have it for this.
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@_thegeoff@mastodon.social 2026-04-10 23:52
@jamesb@fedi.duckduckpigeon.co.uk 400C isn't really close though? I mean, we teach kids about compressive heating at 13, I do a cool demo of lighting cotton wool purely by pressure. Then we tell them that a spaceship hitting tenuous air at Mach 30 is cos "friction"?