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From: inc@fluke.UUCP (Ensign Benson, Time Cadet)
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Subject: Re: Would a candle burn ...
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Date: Thu, 25-Jul-85 19:55:27 EDT
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The questoon was: Would a candle burn...
> ... in space?
> 
> This question came up the other day in discussion.  We seemed to think
> that there would be problems because in the absence of a gravity field
> the heated air would not rise.  Thus CO2 would not be pulled away from
> the area of burning and O2 would not be pulled in.  Therefore
> combustion would not be continuous.

I think that if NASA is really thinking about experimenting with
extratereestrial sexual relations, they may find that the candle burns
at both ends!

Good question, though - please post the most sincere-sounding answer.


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