Have you not noticed that it seems to be coming back in style? I have a transparent case on my steam deck. I’ve seen the same mods for other consoles. I’ve seen transparent battery packs and transparent controllers for sale recently. Also didn’t a company just release a transparent phone a couple months ago?
I am far, far from skilled in the kitchen, but this is 100% user error. Even I know enough not to put anything in the oven unless I’m completely certain it’s heat-resistant…
You understand that the reason we make candles out of wax is because it’s a solid fuel, right? The same reason candles work is the reason wax paper isn’t oven safe.
Yeah, I recently learned that most people are totally misunderstanding candles when Hank Green had to do a whole series on “where does the wax go?” on tiktok. Blew my mind that it wasn’t obvious to everyone.
If someone had asked me “what percentage of people know how candles work?” I would probably have answered something like “95% of those over the age of 5”. This is very disconcerting. Not that candles are terribly important, but just the lack of reasoning.
Is it really that weird to not fully understand how candles work? They’re rarely used nowadays if you have electricity, and it’s not exactly the most intuitive - I mean wax melts, and reveals more wick, and the wick is the thing you set fire to, so I don’t think it’s that weird to think the wick is burning.
I’ve only ever seen one lead-acid battery halfway pop, and that’s only because it wasn’t secured down and bumped both terminals against the hood after hitting a bump in the road. Even then it didn’t explode.
I didn’t say anything about the ABS computer burning up or the Chevy Bolt (which is an EV) burning up, but nice mix of reports you got there.
Guess what they all have in common? Every single one of them in one way or another started from a failure in one of the electrical or electronics systems.
Again, gasoline (the raw fuel) does not spontaneously combust, it takes some sort of external spark to ignite.
Isn’t it kinda funny that the more advanced the vehicles get, the more at risk of failure they are? 🤔
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