• Leandro Motta Barros via Digitalmars-d (3/22) Jul 12 2016 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_smoke

Leandro Motta Barros via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d puremagic.com> writes:

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

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