[AR] Re: Mythbusters panel at Comicon mentioned a "myth" I've heard in "r...
- From: Norman Yarvin <yarvin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2014 03:54:20 -0400
On Sat, Aug 02, 2014 at 08:50:17AM -0400, I wrote:
> And in their
>experiments, the way they got their final big bang was to bury an
>aluminum block to act as an anvil, and put a mass of asphalt rubble on
>top of it -- neither of which they had done before.
Oh, one more difference: the rubble was actually dry. In their other
experiments, they'd taken wet slabs of asphalt (wet from being left
out in the rain) and toweled them off. Changing three variables at a
time like this is not a good way to do experiments, and it leaves open
the possibility that dry asphalt would be considerably more dangerous.
That toweling off is not going to have removed water from cracks; and
doing so would greatly increase the surface area, at least in old
asphalt (the limiting factor for asphalt road life being when the
stuff starts cracking apart).
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Norman Yarvin http://yarchive.net/blog
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