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Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's fine to post archive links in the comments, but please don't do it at the top level, unless you've searched and there's really no alternative.
Is this in reference to the post on the front page about not mining and harvesting Magnesium from the oceans?
Edit: oh good dang did that while I was typing
This may be a better link: https://simson.net/ref/1993/cubefire.html as it has links to the actual photos on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nitroba/albums/721575944354804...
Year ago conversation with better link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28326169
Burning a Magnesium NextCube (1993) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28326169 - Aug 2021 (23 comments)
Burning a NeXT Cube - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=926992 - Nov 2009 (14 comments)
(link fixed now too)
I particularly chuckled at the line "We have problems like this all of the time".
Living in Europe, I’m deeply amazed at how much help and support he got for free from a bunch of people from one of the most important (and expensive) laboratories in the world. All of that just to basically have some fun and take some pictures. I’m absolutely sure that here he would never have any support to do this. We unfortunately have forgotten how to have fun and be creative here in the old world.
Me and engineers I knew were humans who liked fun (and especially had curiosity), too. As long as proper safety precautions are taken, why not? Seems like it wasn't very different here, either:
> "I need to have an MDS --- a Material Date Safety Shet --- on the paint before I can let you burn it," he said.
I vividly remembered all these demonstrations of burning magnesium strips in school, and sometimes wondered whether the case of my laptop would react the same. Of course, I liked that thing, so it always remained a question.
[1] Current pictures found on the Internet don't do it justice at all, since the paint and materials seem to have degraded to something very ugly by now.
Given that magnesium alloy car wheels often survive car fires with barely more than the surface spalling off, I don't know what they expected.
i once blew up the monitor of a next. it had been sent back to the us from the uk for repair, but when we recieved it back in the uk i didn't notice that the power selector was set to 120 rather than 240 volts. and ... bang. the cube itself seemed a bit more resilient. there were reports of the mag alloy airframes of lancaster bombers burning in the raf offensive on germany in ww2, but i can't find any confirmation o…
The result was horrific.
Living in Europe, I’m deeply amazed at how much help and support he got for free from a bunch of people from one of the most important (and expensive) laboratories in the world. All of that just to basically have some fun and take some pictures. I’m absolutely sure that here he would never have any support to do this. We unfortunately have forgotten how to have fun and be creative here in the old world.
As someone who's been living in the US for a while, but who grew up, lived, and worked in Germany all my life before, I'm not sure what you mean. Me and engineers I knew were humans who liked fun (and especially had curiosity), too. As long as proper safety precautions are taken, why not? Seems like it wasn't very different here, either: > "I need to have an MDS --- a Material Date Safety Shet --- on the paint before…