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Can a lotus elise be driven on normal roads or is it too low to the ground? What about over speedbumps?

I love the look, handling, and everything about the elise, but im not sure if its too low to go over speed bumps and there are a few in town (school, pool, etc). Can the car go over average size speed bumps?

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No the glass will not burn from the paper. Glass will discolor with enough heat. Glass is made from sand. It will break with heat if it is not tempered.
Depending on the heat, the glass can melt. It will kill the fish. For one thing the water temperature would be too hot, and the smoke in the air allows for no oxygen, therefore no oxygen for the water.
yeah. glass doesn't burn.. if they did then they would never make candles in glass jars
Sometimes this is caused by the paper needing fanning. Sometimes this is caused by damp paper. Sometimes this is caused by using the wrong weight paper - too thin for the printer's specification. Or maybe the printer is adjusted wrongly. Or maybe the printer is just worn out. We had an old A3 HP inkjet that eventually used to always pull multiple sheets in (ended up doing 3-4 at a time which always jammed it up). There was no economic fix, we ended up scrapping it.
Let's do the math. Paper burns at 451 degrees Fahrenheit Glass melts at roughly 2732 degrees F. Organic's (wood, butane, propane) have a flame around 3590 degrees F. So the numbers sound good. Now work out the physics. For ignition to take place, you need heat, fuel oxygen. A butane lighter would supply the heat, the paper is the fuel, and an open jar allows in the oxygen. But the glass in the jar is going to absorb disperse a lot of that heat from the lighter. A shallow, thin jar would give less resistance to reaching the paper. Then consider the density of the paper. Card board, note pad, cigarette rolling paper would be thickest to thinnest. Now consider the purity of the glass. A test tube will hold up to greater heat than an empty, store bought jar that held food. The latter glass will more likely explode into shards before the paper ever ignited. The safest way to try this is to put a rolling paper inside of a test tube. Hold the tube with tongs over a lab burner. Wear safety glasses gloves. But I've still had these explode on me in Science class.

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