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		haddr on Sept 4, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Mystery of Devil's Kettle Falls And what happens if somewhere down below the temperature suddenly rises and all those plastic beacons with some soldered electronics inside simply melt or break?

ars on Sept 4, 2015 [–]

It there was a lot of heat down there we would know - there would be hot springs somewhere nearby.

For plastic to melt it would be hot enough to make steam, and we would see that.

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