Re: Demolition - BBC1

Richard Brooks said the following on 18/04/07 22:04:
Enzo Matrix said the following on 18/04/07 20:35:
Richard Brooks wrote:
Enzo Matrix said the following on 18/04/07 19:30:
I just watched about a minute of this programme, and then turned it
off in disgust.

There was some bloke telling us about how sensitive plastic
explosive is. He reckoned that it was vulnerable to all sorts of
things: heat, shock, friction, static, lightning strikes...

Well, duh! *Everything* is vulnerable to lightning strikes! As for
the rest of his list, what a complete and utter load of tosh!
Did you catch the only thing worth watching on Sky Three over the last
weeks, Mark Williams's Big Bangs ?

I only caught the last two programmes out of four and there were
fascinating little snippets such as that if there was an explosion on
the SS Richard Montgomery, the ship that was carrying explosives from
the States for the war effort in WWII and had run aground and sunk on
the sand bank near the Isle of Sheppey, the wall of water would flood
Holland!

I saw that when it was first broadcast about a year ago. It was pretty good. Admittedly it handled the subject in a pop-science, Brainiac sort of way, but at least everything that was stated was true and accurate.

I could imagine the Mayor of Hiroshima saying "what the *** was that ?"

Further to my post above, I've only seen the footage once and others have commented on how amazing that was also. I think it's of a direct hit on an ammunition ship in Truk Lagoon. There is a clear ball of vapour in a shockwave that goes right through the cloud base and it looks like a hydrogen bomb going off. The ship was only a dot in frame but the ball goes right out of frame so I could believe about the facts surrounding the SS Richard Montgomery.


Richard.

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