07-06-2017, 07:48 AM
(07-06-2017, 05:02 AM)dukealien Wrote:On the subject of mylar being flammable... under most sublunary circumstances it's not. Aircraft fires (pure oxygen, aluminum, and electricity) will do it sometimes. I also had, at one time, the duty of destroying certain punched mylar tapes with the added proviso that neither I nor the other guy watching, armed, could actually see them at any time for fear we'd somehow photo-memorize the contents. Without going into the mechanics of solving this puzzle, the end result is a very fine ash, some lumps from the container, and an amazingly bad smell which may just be the observer's olfactory tissues breaking down.
you talk about things being light... when eternity is your topic (maybe the right approach)
about the spirit living forever.. I like the idea that spirit is something eternal, leaving our bodies when we die and then rotting itself together in other forms of contained lives again.. and again and so on.
as to mylar, there are probably many different ways to process this material so that it is more or less heat resistant, but the balloons seem to burn easily:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zeuv57_0NRQ
the mylar tapes you mentioned seem to have potential for another poem...
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