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"Doug \"Woody\" and Erin Beal" wrote in message news:
I watched a portion of Myth Busters where the two knuckleheads tried to debunk the "explosive decompression" phenomenon in the movies. You get the picture. Gun goes off in plane. Fuselage rips open and 6-8 passengers, in flight meals, luggage, and an unsuspecting flight attendant fly into the atmosphere. They pressurized a bone-yarded fuselage with a huffer and used a remote control .45 to shoot out windows and fuselage to see if a large hole would expand out the small starter hole. Results: Small holes stayed small and made hissing noises. Conclusion: Myth. Busted. They failed, however, to introduce a 300/.78 slipstream into the equation, but I doubt it would have changed the result. Point being that these guys seem to make some critical assumptions that *might* affect the results. I didn't see the whole show, but I don't remember them ever addressing the lack of slip stream. --Woody Next time you're out here (yea right) I'll show you some video of our recent tests. We did our own series of tests and recreated the vital conditions. The conclusions are the same as you stated. Explosive decompressions are great for the movies, not realistic though. BlackBeard |
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Peter Skelton wrote in message . ..
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 10:27:56 -0500, "Bill Kambic" wrote: "Peter Skelton" wrote in message We have conditional and absolute discharge, ie. the court saying don't do it again, and don't bug us with this trivia respectively to deal with this sort of sillyness. Isn't there something similar in the states? No, Sir. Life can get a bit unpleasant for a judge who lets things get tied up with too much effort for too little crime. Our Federal judges serve for life or good behavior (U.S. Constitution, Art. III, Sec. 1). Not much can happen to such an official who does get "tied down" in trivia. It's not perfect but it helps Perhaps. On the other hand it does keep the heavy hand of any given administration from bringing direct pressure on judges for some specific outcome. Judges here are not subject to job pressure from politicians, but there is a certain amount of peer review, and their decisions are, of course, public knowledge. How do you react to a coworker who's anal slowness keeps you from your family or who's nasty behaviour makes customers yell at you? We don't know. In the US we usually tell Judges that if you're interested in customers and Lawyers, you should be a *New York* Judge. Since the rest of the universe doesn't work like New York. |
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Kevin Brooks wrote:
Probably lucky he does not reside south of our mutual border. A lot of the birds of prey are protected here. All raptors/accipters are protected here too. If I remember correctly he did get a permit to have the hawk stuffed (otherwise the taxidermist would not have touched it). That wasn't a problem because CF Range Control Officers are ex officio game wardens, and the incident was duly reported to the local RCO. -- Andrew Chaplin SIT MIHI GLADIUS SICUT SANCTO MARTINO (If you're going to e-mail me, you'll have to get "yourfinger." out.) |
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"Keith Willshaw" wrote:
Hmmm, I suspect when dealing with a kg of water it makes a big difference to the fan blades if that water is frozen in a single lump. It was interesting the extraordinary damage a 100MPH chicken caused to that little Beechcraft. It looked like a 20mm hit. ----== Posted via Newsfeed.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeed.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 100,000 Newsgroups ---= 19 East/West-Coast Specialized Servers - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- |
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Dale Farmer wrote: Peter Kemp wrote: On or about Mon, 19 Jan 2004 09:28:37 +0000, Alan Lothian allegedly uttered: In article , Keith Willshaw wrote: Hmmm, I suspect when dealing with a kg of water it makes a big difference to the fan blades if that water is frozen in a single lump. Indeed. Strange to relate, more windscreens are smashed by hailstones than by raindrops. Hailstones can get rather larger than raindrops. In the various updrafts within stormclouds the raindrops grow until they reach a size at which they're too unstable in the airflows and fission into smaller drops, hail just keeps growing until the updrafts can't keep them up. I've never been hurt by rainfall, but one short shower of 1" hail left me very battered, slightly dazed, and in need of a large drink and a quiet lie down. I'd be interested to know what experiments, if any, the programme did in order to reach its conclusions. Obviously they are quite correct about kinetic energy and momentum, but transfer of momentum operates in many different ways depending very much on the nature of the materials in which the transfer occurs. I have to admit I missed the show and will keep an eye out for the inevitable rerun as it would be one I'd like to see. --- Peter Kemp Life is short - Drink Faster There was a hailstorm in Texas several years ago during a large outdoor festival of some sort. Couple of folks maimed, lots hospitalized, millions of dollars in property damage. ( Broken glass, totaled cars, roof damage. ) --Dale Storytellers like to toss around the phrase "_____ball-sized hail," the diameter of the ball growing with the teller's brazenness. But back in the late 70s, when I was working as an insurance adjuster in eastern end of Tornado Alley (southern Illinois, Western Kentucky and Tennessee, southwestern Missouri), I got a claim once where some folks on a farm said they'd had some structures and vehicles damaged by "baseball-sized hail." We'd heard such things around the office plenty of times, but these folks had gone to the trouble to bag some of the stones and stick them in a freezer. And they weren't exaggerating; somewhere I've still got the Polaroids. Given that the projectiles in question had had a chance to melt some -- it was summer, after all -- before the insureds figured it was safe enough to go outside and assess, it's possible they had been the size of softballs when they came down. The tin roof on their tractor shed looked life it'd been hit with cluster bomblets. That area sees some pretty extreme weather phenomena. My dad still lives there; he says that a twister that came through last summer and killed a couple people just a mile from his house was so powerful it pulled utility poles straight out of the ground without breaking them. He'd been in the claims business for 30 years, and maintains it was the most awe-inspiring damage he'd ever personally witnessed. |
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David Windhorst wrote:
[Snip previous hailstones stuff] got the Polaroids. Given that the projectiles in question had had a chance to melt some -- it was summer, after all -- before the insureds figured it was safe enough to go outside and assess, it's possible they had been the size of softballs when they came down. The tin roof on their tractor shed looked life it'd been hit with cluster bomblets. 12" or 16" softballs? -- OJ III [Email sent to Yahoo addy is burned before reading. Lower and crunch the sig and you'll net me at comcast] |
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(John S. Shinal) wrote:
"Keith Willshaw" wrote: Hmmm, I suspect when dealing with a kg of water it makes a big difference to the fan blades if that water is frozen in a single lump. It was interesting the extraordinary damage a 100MPH chicken caused to that little Beechcraft. It looked like a 20mm hit. The pumpkin shot they took at it at the end of the show was impressive too. Finished off the destruction of the safety enclosure begun during all the chicken shooting. [They'd had a veteran of the world famous World Pumpkin Chucking Championships [http://www.whatsonwhen.com/events/~46624.jml] who'd used air cannons in his winning efforts {a 1 mile shot} as their technical/safety expert/advisor, so naturally ...] -- OJ III [Email sent to Yahoo addy is burned before reading. Lower and crunch the sig and you'll net me at comcast] |
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Ogden Johnson III radiated into the WorldWideWait: One of the few judges impeached by the House and convicted by the Senate got his revenge. Election to the House of Representatives that impeached him. He's still serving, having been reelected regularly. ??? Who the HELL is that? |
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"Duke of URL" wrote in message
One of the few judges impeached by the House and convicted by the Senate got his revenge. Election to the House of Representatives that impeached him. He's still serving, having been reelected regularly. ??? Who the HELL is that? The ex-Federal judge from Miami who got nailed for tax evasion, if memory serves? I just can't quite recall his name. Bill Kambic If, by any act, error, or omission, I have, intentionally or unintentionally, displayed any breedist, disciplinist, sexist, racist, culturalist, nationalist, regionalist, localist, ageist, lookist, ableist, sizeist, speciesist, intellectualist, socioeconomicist, ethnocentrist, phallocentrist, heteropatriarchalist, or other violation of the rules of political correctness, known or unknown, I am not sorry and I encourage you to get over it. |
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Bad form to reply to your own post, but the name is Rep. Alcee Hastings(D),
23rd Dist., FL. Bill Kambic If, by any act, error, or omission, I have, intentionally or unintentionally, displayed any breedist, disciplinist, sexist, racist, culturalist, nationalist, regionalist, localist, ageist, lookist, ableist, sizeist, speciesist, intellectualist, socioeconomicist, ethnocentrist, phallocentrist, heteropatriarchalist, or other violation of the rules of political correctness, known or unknown, I am not sorry and I encourage you to get over it. |
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