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From: mike@bambi.UUCP (Michael Caplinger)
Newsgroups: net.sci,net.space
Subject: Re: Would a candle burn ...
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Date: Mon, 29-Jul-85 16:02:21 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 29 16:02:21 1985
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Summary: 


Arthur C. Clarke used this problem in his juvenile novel ISLANDS IN THE
SKY.  A young "space cadet" is fooled into believing that the air in a
spacecraft cabin is going bad when an older cadet lights a match and it
goes out almost immediately.  After the joke is exposed, the older
cadet demonstrates that if the match is moved about while burning, it
won't go out.

Of course, there's no guarantee that Clarke was right about this.

	- Mike