re a message for you mr president how do you know what happened in article apr rigel tamu edu mst rigel tamu edu mitchell s todd writes in article apr scubed com wilkins scubed com darin wilkins writes in article c w ca m s noose ecn purdue edu tbrent ecn purdue edu timothy j brent writes if you check the news today ap the authorities also found a state of the art automatic machine gun that investigators did not know was in the cult s arsenal carl stern justice department in article r hmlinnc mojo eng umd edu russotto eng umd edu matthew t russotto writes yeah in a fire that reportedly burned hotter than degrees hot enough to make the bodies still unidentifiable the authorities found a gun that was recognizably fully automatic and state of the art isn t that conveeeenient assuming the most favorable interpretation of your degree measurement that the temperature is in centigrade rather than the more common in the us fahrenheit you are still laboring under at least misconceptions you seem to believe that steel melts somewhere around c actually the melting point of most iron alloys and steels are iron alloys is in the neighborhood of c even if the gun were found in area which achieved the c temperature the steel parts of the gun would not be deformed and it would still be trivial to identify the nature of the weapon steel may not melt at c but it will weaken expand and deform if there is enough of a load on the steel like the load on a steel roof truss or the pressure exerted by steel parts in a machine trying to expand against each other the steel can and will deform extensively for the record any weapon found in the cult compound should be indentifiable but it may be impossible to do normal ballistics tests because of the damage done to the weapon if if if anyway the question was if the gun was identifiable which it is tim mitchell s todd timothy j brent a man will come to know true happiness brent bank ecn purdue edu only when he accepts that he is but a small part of an infinite universe purdue university spinoza materials science engineering paraphrased
