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Old 10-24-2018, 01:04 AM   #3420 (permalink)
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Pop culture vs science? Pop culture has been high-jacked.

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Originally Posted by niky
That's interesting. Gotta look that up.
Nobody is sure why when you ring gauge blocks together, you can't pull them apart. It's air pressure or Van der Waals force or something.

The part about ice caves was a comment in some story about cryogenic tempering.
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