Thread: Problem NOT solved by application of explosives!

Quote: Originally Posted by BigDon ...but this is the state (Oregon) where they fired their highway planner for making freeway offramps that were banked in the wrong direction. Somehow real civil engineers didn't see that as excusable at all. Right about this time frame (1970's). These were his men at work. As my old construction foreman used to say, "You can't make chicken soup with chicken...

Whaling is prohibited within a measured limit, I believe.

Quote: Originally Posted by JMV Apparently the amount of explosives needed to dispose a dead animal does not scale linearily with the mass of the carcass. According to this tech tip , 55 pounds of explosives should ensure total obliteration of a 1,100 pound horse. Going by that example and assuming linear relationship, half a ton of dynamite should have been enough for an eight-ton whale. It also might be that the highway engineers did not...

Thank you, Sir! Mr.gavin, would you 'dispose' of an unwanted whale with a big bang? Surely the best and most skilled use of explosives would be to excavate a big hole, so placed that the whale just rolls in and all the elevated sand falls back onto it? Job done! John

Quote: Originally Posted by mugaliens Exactly. Just think - if they could have used a small nuke, they'd have done away with the whale and had a new bay to boast about! It's the only way to be sure. Nick

Quote: Originally Posted by peteshimmon Oh no! not again! They just didn't realize the correct number of explosives was "42"

Quote: Originally Posted by HenrikOlsen They didn't want to blow it into lots of small bits (which was what they actually accomplished for part of it), they thought they could make the whale fly into the water. For that.. shove a thick iron plate under it. A stack of nukes in the middle, and launch it Project Orion style. (Just have the grace to put a bowl of petunias with it on the plate, so it has company on the way down.)...

Quote: Originally Posted by HenrikOlsen They didn't want to blow it into lots of small bits (which was what they actually accomplished for part of it), they thought they could make the whale fly into the water. Well, the reporter in the video explains: The hope was that the long-dead Pacific gray whale would be almost disintegrated by the blast, and the small pieces still around after the explosion would be taken care of by seagulls and...

Did not anyone realise that lots of candles might be useful shortly?

Quote: Originally Posted by JMV Apparently the amount of explosives needed to dispose a dead animal does not scale linearily with the mass of the carcass. I thought that mass equations typically scaled exponentially rather than linearly? __________________ I'm like one of those idiot savants...well, except for the savant part. "In order to increase awareness of the homeless, security have been given binoculars."