Notes on
a site I had never previously heard of
Believe it or not: at some point in my life (the day before yesterday), I just started wondering how the flame of a candle burning in zero gravity might look like.
Hmm.
I then acted according to some of my most sacred rules, being
1.
STFU
2.
RTFM (which, unfortunately, doesn't really apply here) and, finally,
3.
STFW. Which I did.
A certain site, which had previously proven to be more of a "friend and helper" than the German police (yes, this used to be their motto - not "to serve and protect"), then helped me to find results from all over (and, in this case, out of) this world, ranging from really nasty flamewars over marginally informative posts ("nah, that wouldn't work") on nearly abandoned science geek sites to something that looked like a post.
It was named
What does a candle's flame look like when it burns in space? and was the very node you will be able to read when following the link.
After fulfilling my undying curiosity concerning floating candles and possibly
another explanation for the Columbia disaster, I discovered that
this side I had found was a source of information not only for questions of fire and wax, but also ones of
life and death,
men and women and well..uh...
other very interesting topics.
I was immediately captivated, having finally found an outlet for the
mental diarrhea,
useful ideas and other
byproducts of my brain that float around like...well,
candles in Zero-G.
Now, let's see what to do with this site...and what the site does to me...