[OT] Re: Card on fire

[Leandro Motta Barros via Digitalmars-d]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_smoke

On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 3:42 PM, deadalnix via Digitalmars-d <
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday, 12 July 2016 at 12:17:00 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>
>> I seriously doubt a fan would stop an electrical fire (in fact, probably
>> makes it worse). It's not overheating, it's arcing.
>>
>>
> Actually, it would probably make it worse by providing fresh O2 to the
> fire.
>
> BTW, this reminds me of a old goodie:
>>
>> http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/96/Jun/nosmoke.html
>>
>> A old colleague of mine always said when you see smoke, there's no way to
>> fix it, because it's really hard to get the smoke back in there.
>>
>> -Steve
>>
>
> We had a similar saying when I was involved int he electronic world: Chips
> must be powered by smoke. We know this because once it is gone, the chip
> doesn't work anymore.
>
>
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