Saturday, July 27, 2019
30-microsecond disproof
Most of these disproofs require a few seconds of lookup. This one doesn't even!
Headline at ZH:
"I'm Very Worried" - Chief Architect Fears Heatwave Will Collapse Notre Dame Roof
"What I fear is that the joints or the masonry, as they dry, lose their cohesion and their structural qualities, and that all of a sudden, the vault gives way..."
1. If the mortar was going to dry out, I'd guess that 800 years have already done the job.
2. Ever hear of chimneys? Blast furnaces? Fireplaces? All of those mysterious new inventions are built with bricks and mortar. The bricks are often special firebrick, but the mortar is just mortar. All of those mysterious new inventions take a thousand degrees over and over and over without failing. And you're worried about a hundred degrees.
3. Ice is harder on mortar than dry heat. Do you ever have snow and ice in Paris?
4. I don't know for sure, but I'd guess that the temperature in the attic under the LEAD roof has often gone WAY beyond 100 degrees, when the outside is in the 80s.
None of those facts matter in the "mind" of an architect. Architects know that the current heat is UNHOLY HEAT because it's caused by Populists. POPULIST HEAT is witchcraft, not bound by the ordinary rules of physics and thermodynamics.
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