#61 – Thermostat
Posted on May 19, 2006 at 9:15 am by Chris
Chapter: Comics
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.
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Some people put too much trust into machines. I know I do.
Oh no! The bronze on his Rembrandt melted too!
It seems that being made of ink is a mortal problem at summer, in front of the chimney and near the thermostat…
And the couch hasn’t caught fire?
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.
I’m melting! I’m Melting!! *gurgle*
i’d like to see that. i’m going to go suggest it to the mythbusters.
oooooo melting wood, me like
I have got to see what melting wood looks like. along with pretty much everything else that i can get my hands on.
It could probably be fixed with a flaming hammer
I’m fairly certain that would just make it worse.
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.
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
ahhh nice and tosty
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.
My home heater thermostat doesn’t work at all; it’s too cold. So I got a space heater. Its thermostat doesn’t work, so it’s too warm. So I got an A/C. Its thermostat doesn’t work, so it’s too cold. Next I’m gonna buy a thermostat to hook up to the A/C and heater. I hope it works.
I once left a book out in the car. The glue melted and the pages all fell out.
I had to buy another copy.
My fingernails has burned on multiple occasions. o.O That’s one of your problems if your fingernails are all longer than one and a half centimeter and you like to burn candles in your bedroom so that you can read a book or two at night. It’s incredibly easy for them to burn if you wear nail-polish. And I love my purple one.
I wonder how hot it was for Biff there. o.o’
WHO WANTS FRIED BIFF?
one time my brother left a soccer ball in the trunk of our car during the summer and it exploded.