Post #2758129
2026-04-10 23:52 UTC
@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"?
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@jamesb@fedi.duckduckpigeon.co.uk 2026-04-10 23:54
@_thegeoff@mastodon.social It's 0053, 400 was a throwaway number - you know what I mean.