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|    Alan to Andy Burnelli    |
|    Re: Empiricism trumps Arlen's idiocy (wa    |
|    17 May 22 13:36:59    |
      XPost: comp.mobile.android, misc.phone.mobile.iphone       From: nuh-uh@nope.com              On 2022-05-16 10:41 a.m., Andy Burnelli wrote:       > AMuzi wrote:       >       >> Yes but beyond rotor temperature note the caliper and other components       >> are _not_ glowing hot.       >       > Hi AMuzi,       >       > First off, let me state what should be obvious, but what might not be:       > a. I am a well educated scientist & engineer which means I'm extremely       > familiar with "things" that "seem" to be one way, but which aren't.                     A claim not supported by anything.              > b. I'm also well trained in how to formulate and defend an hypothesis,       > having been on a team who published peer-reviewed papers in the       > biological sciences (before I turned to engineering in San Jose).              Supra.              > c. I welcomed your argument, and that of Vic Smith, simply because       > both of you sincerely tried to find some way to explain the dilemma.       >       > The dilemma is that it's well known that to make cast iron melt would       > take temperatures which would _destroy_ the components in a brake caliper.              It's also well-known that you don't have to heat a metal to its melting       point for it to become plastic.              >       > Hence, anyone "claiming" that their rotors "warped", would also need to       > product the horribly damaged "softer" components of the braking system.              Heat has to be transmitted to those other components... ...and that       doesn't happen.              >       > And they _never_ do.       > Because it didn't happen.              It does happen.              You've been SHOWN examples.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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