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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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