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Wednesday, May 17, 2006

The Shrine of the Immaculate Evaporation

In the wake of the total disappearance of two nine-foot diameter titanium alloy engines along with the rest of the American Airlines Flight 77 Boeing 757 that crashed into the Pentagon, ministers, priests, and even rabbis (in democratically appropriate alphabetical order) are calling for the creation of The Shrine for the Immaculate Evaporation at the Pentagon. "God has created a holy place," one priest solemnly stated. "Material objects vanished into thin air."

"Events are occurring that can only be explained as acts of Almighty God," a minister said in confirmation of this holiest of events. The rabbi mentioned something about a similar place in the Tabernacle in Jerusalem.

"God is at work here. There is no other explanation," a White House spokesperson intoned.

"The maximum flame temperature increase for burning hydrocarbons (jet fuel) in air is, thus, about 1,000°C—hardly sufficient to melt steel at 1,500°C. "
http://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/JOM/0112/Eagar/Eagar-0112.html

Let alone a titanium alloy ...

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