scott wrote:
> One cool thing (literally) is that before an entire car goes on sale it 
> must go through similar tests, they essentially stick it in a freezer 
> for 6 months at -40 degrees and then check that everything works 
> afterwards.  This is part of the reason why cars take several years to 
> design and test before they are sold.

LOL! Cool. ;-)

Reminds me of the experiment I saw where they were testing a cow worming 
device. Basically it's a lump of special metal, you use a gun to shoot 
it down the cow's throat (??!?!!), and it sits inside the cow's stomach, 
slowly releasing chemicals which kill digestive parasites. Anyway, to 
test it, they basically took a dozen of these things and put them inside 
an artificial stomach. That is, a tray full of acid inside an oven at 


Let me tell you: it was smelly. :-S

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