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Blackadder_no

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Blackadder_no
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A masonry building on the Portuguese island of Sao Miguel collapsed on its own accord yesterday, fortunately noone was injured. But this collapse has all the CTers hallmarks of a controlled demolition; sudden and near-total collapse, copious amounts of dust and even a couple of "squib-like" flashes with appropriate sounds, apparently when the electrical wiring is severed.

http://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/2007/07/24/507022.html

Just goes to show that suspicious-looking things happen in perfectly natural events.
 
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Actually it does. Crown-like things with ceramic "spikes" that melt at different temperatures are what they use (or used to use) to determine the temperature in really hot furnaces. I'll see what I can do about digging up a picture of one.
 
Blackadder_no said:
A masonry building on the Portuguese island of Sao Miguel collapsed on its own accord yesterday, fortunately noone was injured. But this collapse has all the CTers hallmarks of a controlled demolition; sudden and near-total collapse, copious amounts of dust and even a couple of "squib-like" flashes with appropriate sounds, apparently when the electrical wiring is severed.

http://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/2007/07/24/507022.html

Just goes to show that suspicious-looking things happen in perfectly natural events.
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Finally!
This noone character got hurt. Perhaps now we can find out why he keeps hanging around catastrophies and disasters!

Who told you buildings are natural? Ant hills and beaver dams are natural. Huts and people dams are not.:D :D :D
 
Beleth said:
Actually it does. Crown-like things with ceramic "spikes" that melt at different temperatures are what they use (or used to use) to determine the temperature in really hot furnaces. I'll see what I can do about digging up a picture of one.
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Those are called pyrometric cones, and they're still very much in use in ceramic kilns. Here's way more than you want to know about cones:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrometric_cone

Cones have the advantage of being low-tech, at least as compared to pyrometers or indirect methods of assessing kiln temperature.

I wonder: How much is pyrometrics used for forensic purposes? Quite a bit, I would guess.
 
jsiv said:
Fire doesn't melt masonry.
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I would go further!!
Fire doesn't occur in a place surrounded by water!!!!! Duh!!!!
We have to reveal the truth on "The View" with Rosie!!!!! I know she isn't there anymore...oh well.
It was the reptillians from Zeta-Reticuli.
 
sackett said:
Those are called pyrometric cones, and they're still very much in use in ceramic kilns. Here's way more than you want to know about cones:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrometric_cone
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Thank you, sackett! I spent about 20 minutes Googling different permutations of "ceramic furnace thermometer" and came up empty... I'm glad it was because I wasn't using the right CerE lingo and not because I imagined them!
 
rwguinn said:
Finally!
This noone character got hurt. Perhaps now we can find out why he keeps hanging around catastrophies and disasters!

Who told you buildings are natural? Ant hills and beaver dams are natural. Huts and people dams are not.:D :D :D
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This Noone?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Noone

I wonder about this guy. He spends a lot of time peeping at people through their shades and thinks he's Henry VIII, he is.
 
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