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- From: 3001crad@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Charles Frank Radley)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: Ice hardness
- Message-ID: <6654@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 14:34:49 GMT
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- In article <BxIIvB.GyE.2@cs.cmu.edu> lindsay+@cs.cmu.edu (Donald Lindsay) writes:
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- >Being hard doesn't mean that bulk material is without flaws. It
- >wouldn't be surprising if the explosion caused major fracturing.
- >Precisely how much, would be unpredictable.
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- >Don D.C.Lindsay Carnegie Mellon Computer Science
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- Indeeed. Hardness and strength do not prevent a material from containing
- numerous flaws, large and small.
- Flaws can propogte, regardless of the strength or hardness of the material.
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