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Not everything is susceptible to heat. Cyanobacteria are able to resist cooking. They're the ones responsible for blue-green algal blooms and red tides. |
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Likewise, so is Bacillus anthracis resistant to heat, before you ask. It's called anthrax after anthracite, because of the black colour of skin lesions. |
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You can contract intestinal anthrax from eating cooked, contaminated meat. |
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Air has to be heated to aver 300 C to kill anthrax spores. Even if you remove the oxygen, it's still going to do horrible things to mail. |
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Admittedly, in a CO2 autoclave, it shouldn't burn too well. No oxygen. |
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"...I assure you sir, the shrink-wrap was fine when it left our warehouse..." |
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Why not have robots open the mail and photocopy it? |
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This would be a great way to deal with all those useless AOL CDs... |
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Angel: That's the temperature at which it actually catches on fire. The temperature at which it would become less than readable is, I suspect, somewhat less. |
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Guncrazy: A better idea to use AOL CD's is as microwave entertainment. In someone else's microwave, of course. |
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Irradiate the mail. Only, it might be harsh on magnetic media like new credit cards. Maybe cards will have to use bar-codes now. |
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[pottedstu] "...but sir, we can't cash a *photocopy* of a check..." |
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[seal10] Easy. Use giant magnets to separate all the magnetic material from the non-magnetic material. Bake the magnetic, irradiate the non-magentic. |
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While I'm here:
<Obligatory annotation mentioning a giant washing machine and dryer> |
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I don't think radiation directly affects magnetic media. |
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Just because you fill the chamber with CO2 doesn't mean the material will be fine. Paper still yellows, browns, and blackens. There's oxygen in those carbohydrates, and chemicals break down under heat. |
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Heeeeyyyy. I could mail myself a loaf of bread and get back toast... |
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Thats scary - by the same logic I could print my hb ideas and mail them to myself... baked... arghh... |
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[phoenix] using magnets on magnetic media would be incredabley stu... oh wait, sarcasm... |
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Boil all your mail, anthrax scare or no... |
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Saw it, "Over" is not misspelled, merely contextually incorrect. I'm tired of being castigated for pedantry. |
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What temperature does laser printer toner start to melt? |
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At about 360 deg F. It says 180 C on the rollers in the HP printers in my office, and at work. [see link] |
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