May 19th, 2006
#61 - Thermostat
In college I lived in a lot of old houses that were chopped up into apartments. The heating system was never quite right in these places. The worst one had the main radiator for the apartment in my bedroom and the thermostat in the livingroom. The first night there I woke up at one in the morning drenched in sweat and found all of my candles slumped over from the heat. I had to run some wiring from the livingroom into the bedroom and move the thermostat there. That was the only way to run the heat and close the bedroom door at the same time.
December 17th, 2006 at 1:16 am
Some people put too much trust into machines. I know I do.
January 6th, 2007 at 8:40 pm
Oh no! The bronze on his Rembrandt melted too!
January 22nd, 2007 at 5:23 am
It seems that being made of ink is a mortal problem at summer, in front of the chimney and near the thermostat…
February 1st, 2007 at 8:00 pm
And the couch hasn’t caught fire?
March 11th, 2007 at 7:59 am
Can’t catch fire without air, which is apparently why his fingernails have melted rather than burned.
Set up a vacuum chamber with a hot-plate and some tinder and wood shavings sometime. Without air, even wood’ll melt, not burn.
April 9th, 2007 at 6:22 pm
I’m melting! I’m Melting!! *gurgle*
April 10th, 2007 at 8:19 pm
i’d like to see that. i’m going to go suggest it to the mythbusters.
May 4th, 2007 at 11:38 pm
oooooo melting wood, me like
May 20th, 2007 at 1:07 am
I have got to see what melting wood looks like. along with pretty much everything else that i can get my hands on.
May 28th, 2007 at 5:45 pm
It could probably be fixed with a flaming hammer
May 30th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
I’m fairly certain that would just make it worse.
June 14th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
now i know what a flaming hammer is… But it wouldn’t flame in vaccuum. Also, wood wouldn’t melt, kinda difficult for long-strained polymers like cellulose. It would just turn into carbon.
August 27th, 2007 at 7:47 pm
Wood doesn’t melt - it just gets incinerated.
Oddly, it’s what they dowith corpses if they’re cremated. It isn’t a big fire they throw them onto or a big oven, they’re really put in a room of the about 400°C and they just turn to ashes quite quickly. O_o
March 14th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
ahhh nice and tosty
May 16th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
Wood wouldn’t melt, it would decompose. I guess eventually you’d get something that would be a puddle of goo, but it wouldn’t be “wood” any more.