What makes the bottles explode? Are you asking if something were to increase the pressure inside the bottles enough for them to burst that the resulting glass shrapnel would damage the door? Answer would be no.
Also, it depends what is in the bottles. Not being a Michael Caine expert, I don't know whether petrol would be sufficient, but I am sure that there would be a suitable igneous or fissile material to achieve your objective
Charles,
A small amount of petrol vapour would cause a good explosion in a small space or even natural gas.
However it is easy to make at home some picrates which are one of the things that can be used to initiate airbags in cars.
Yes, but that's petrol mixed with oxygen - additionally would the force of the explosion be sufficiently directed to blow the door off without harming the prisoner?
Yes if you could control the direction of the explosion or protect oneself behind a very strong barrier. Why not just burn the door down?
I've heard that if you use aerosol or similar and set it alight, but there isn't much left, the flame can sort of get sucked back into the can and cause it to explode.
Could be wrong, of course. I'm not some sort of pyromaniac, and have thus never tested it.
Tom Newton Dunn @tnewtondunn 9m Interesting. "It's not about George or Boris any more. It's about George, or stop George." A Tory MP today, on how Commons tearoom dividing.
I've heard that if you use aerosol or similar and set it alight, but there isn't much left, the flame can sort of get sucked back into the can and cause it to explode.
Could be wrong, of course. I'm not some sort of pyromaniac, and have thus never tested it.
Theoretically yes, but any relaxation on the valve may protect the can. However if the can was near empty, you may not release enough of the propellant to make the flame.
I've heard that if you use aerosol or similar and set it alight, but there isn't much left, the flame can sort of get sucked back into the can and cause it to explode.
Could be wrong, of course. I'm not some sort of pyromaniac, and have thus never tested it.
Would you like this tested for a small consultancy fee?
Anyway, it sounds like the cunning plan simply wouldn't work. Ah ha! I have an even more cunning plan.
The chap in question could try it, blow the bottles open, leave the door entirely intact but have the guard open the door to try and see what the hell had happened.
Cheers for your advice, fellow pbers.
I once saw the after-effects of a can of baked beans (and before anyone says, this is not a story about the usual after-effects of baked beans). No, this can had, like so many of its forebears, been left in a cast-iron pot-bellied stove to warm up one winters day. Unlike its other valiant forebears, its owner had not pierced it.
The result was a cracked stove and beans almost embedded into the carriage's wooden wall.
I also heard a steam explosion when a high-pressure steam main went bang due to someone backing a 60-foot trailer into it. A driver who fortunately kept his life, but lost his job,
" He said he hopes Vicarious’s computers will learn to how to cure diseases and create cheap, renewable energy, as well as performing the jobs that employ most human beings. “We tell investors that right now, human beings are doing a lot of things that computers should be able to do,” he said."
In our library behind me, there are shelves of books on explosions and ignition; be pleased to help with any specific point but after the weekend, as am driving to the Cotswolds early am tomorrow for lunch near Tetbury.
Anyway, it sounds like the cunning plan simply wouldn't work. Ah ha! I have an even more cunning plan.
The chap in question could try it, blow the bottles open, leave the door entirely intact but have the guard open the door to try and see what the hell had happened.
Cheers for your advice, fellow pbers.
I once saw the after-effects of a can of baked beans (and before anyone says, this is not a story about the usual after-effects of baked beans). No, this can had, like so many of its forebears, been left in a cast-iron pot-bellied stove to warm up one winters day. Unlike its other valiant forebears, its owner had not pierced it.
The result was a cracked stove and beans almost embedded into the carriage's wooden wall.
I also heard a steam explosion when a high-pressure steam main went bang due to someone backing a 60-foot trailer into it. A driver who fortunately kept his life, but lost his job,
Absolutely fascinating. (Were the beans in a railway brake van by any chance?)
Just logged off and returned to find an unexpected new tab open and a few more dodgy looking things in my browser history (this is still on Chrome). I hope this doesn't signify some sort of serious problem.
O/T completely..A question for the pension experts on PB..Is it possible for someone who was obliged to buy an annuity to collapse it and take the remainder of the pot elsewhwere..?
In general no (except there's usually something like a 30-day cooling off period after purchase when you can change your mind, the exact period and conditions depend on the annuity provider).
Just logged off and returned to find an unexpected new tab open and a few more dodgy looking things in my browser history (this is still on Chrome). I hope this doesn't signify some sort of serious problem.
Perhaps a stray enormo-haddock has found a place of refuge. I imagine it might be problematic to lure it out.
Just logged off and returned to find an unexpected new tab open and a few more dodgy looking things in my browser history (this is still on Chrome). I hope this doesn't signify some sort of serious problem.
I certainly wouldn't do any on-line banking, or enter into any financial transactions until you've sorted it out.
In our library behind me, there are shelves of books on explosions and ignition; be pleased to help with any specific point but after the weekend, as am driving to the Cotswolds early am tomorrow for lunch near Tetbury.
If "near Tetbury" is Calcot Manor - you lucky bugger. My second favourite hotel in Britain.
Mr. LP, cheers for the recommendation. I suspect the failed paint.net is the root cause, but unless I can detect the problem it seems I'll have to call someone about it (I'm not tech-savvy at all).
Anyway, it sounds like the cunning plan simply wouldn't work. Ah ha! I have an even more cunning plan.
The chap in question could try it, blow the bottles open, leave the door entirely intact but have the guard open the door to try and see what the hell had happened.
Cheers for your advice, fellow pbers.
I once saw the after-effects of a can of baked beans (and before anyone says, this is not a story about the usual after-effects of baked beans). No, this can had, like so many of its forebears, been left in a cast-iron pot-bellied stove to warm up one winters day. Unlike its other valiant forebears, its owner had not pierced it.
The result was a cracked stove and beans almost embedded into the carriage's wooden wall.
I also heard a steam explosion when a high-pressure steam main went bang due to someone backing a 60-foot trailer into it. A driver who fortunately kept his life, but lost his job,
Absolutely fascinating. (Were the beans in a railway brake van by any chance?)
In an ex-LMS carriage converted into a departmental vehicle. One half was a mess (and even messier about the beans incident), the other half engineering workshop and machinery store.
Labour's "elite" won't offer a referendum on Europe because it doesn't trust the electorate to vote the right way, one of the party's own MPs said yesterday. Ian Davidson said some of his colleagues believe voters cannot be "trusted" on the issue despite widespread concern about Britain's relationship with the European Union.
Just logged off and returned to find an unexpected new tab open and a few more dodgy looking things in my browser history (this is still on Chrome). I hope this doesn't signify some sort of serious problem.
Oh dear. 48 hours on, Labour still doesn't know whether they support the pensions reform or not
@bbclaurak: Miliband on pension changes-'there are certain questions that need to be answered by the government about fairness of these proposals'...
You are being unfair on the son of the Inverkeithing Admiral and war hero.
A leader of the opposition is quite entitled to give assurances of his party's support to the government and then vote against during a division.
Except, of course, on matters of national security and international affairs which involve our leading allies.
If letting you choose how to spend your own money doesn't have "fairness hard wired in" then what does ?
Labour fundamentally doesn't really accept that it is your own money. You live in a state which allowed you to make it, so it's really their money.
All their best wheezes - mansion taxes, removal of personal allowance, abolition of TESSAs, robbery of pensions funds - stem from the idea that if you've got any money left after they've taxed your earnings, spending, breathing and saving, there's been some mistake and you need to have that taken off you too.
Mr. Monkeys, I take it that doesn't clash with an anti-virus? I've heard of the perils of running two anti-virus programmes together. [I do apologise for boring the site on this subject].
Mr. Monkeys, I take it that doesn't clash with an anti-virus? I've heard of the perils of running two anti-virus programmes together. [I do apologise for boring the site on this subject].
No it won't. It's designed to be used as well as. The free version won't scan anyway, as long as you don't tell it to. Just don't run scans with both at the same time.
Best of the lot, assuming you want to give the Russian secret services access to your computer.
Microsoft Security Essentials. Free, efficient.
I don't worry about the Russian secret services, Robert.
They have enough on me already.
Agree on MSE but what Kaspersky offers is an online scan which avoids you having to load more crap on your pc to clean up the crap.
Well you still have to load a small client but it is lightweight compared to a full install of a anti-virus prog.
The secret is to get it to do a text report which identifies the cause of the problem, otherwise it will just blackmail you into paying for the full programme if it does find something.
MSE doesn't do an online scan.
Best solution of all though would be to boot from a flash disk or CD and run the scan from there. Hiren's Boot CD would be what I recommend here but MD probably doesn't want to get that complicated.
Mr. Monkeys, I take it that doesn't clash with an anti-virus? I've heard of the perils of running two anti-virus programmes together. [I do apologise for boring the site on this subject].
You could also try Superantispyware,just download the free version,and run it. It does not conflict with any AV software,it is a stand alone scanner. It will find 100s of tracking cookies,which are OK,but it may find others. Have you checked your installed software and uninstall anything suspicious,and all toolbars,usually installed unintentionally(they are all fairly useless). Have fun,and good luck.
Mr. Jayfdee, thanks for those suggestions. I'll have a look through the programmes list (should be fairly short and delete anything that seems dubious).
Edited extra bit: seen one, but a reboot is necessary. I'll try Malwarebytes first.
Back in from retirement meeting - client buying a fixed term annuity... they and the providers aren't dead..
Sadly no one's told the stockmarket, my punts close with me down over £3k currently.
Happy Days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes there is definitely a place for fixed term annuities,but I think the impaired annuity is definitely an endangered species,they will just take the money and blow it whilst they can.
Of course annuities won't disappear. But they will compete with other investment options for a maturing pension pot and with higher rate returns for the over 65s. So...the annuity market will improve for the customers. The share of a pension pot going to you and me will increase and that going to the annuity providers will fall. GREAT! They'll not disappear but their share prices are rightly down. We were being ripped off in a non-free market before.
I think you need more than a lighter flame, but a good mouthful of spirits spat into an open fire goes up very quickly. You need a good aerosol type spray to get the vapour to ignite.
I watched a film once called The Assassination Bureau in which a character (Oliver Reed maybe?) is about to be offed at dinner. He despatches his assailant by taking a good long pull of brandy and spraying it from his mouth through a lighter flame into the face of the attacker.
In our library behind me, there are shelves of books on explosions and ignition; be pleased to help with any specific point but after the weekend, as am driving to the Cotswolds early am tomorrow for lunch near Tetbury.
If "near Tetbury" is Calcot Manor - you lucky bugger. My second favourite hotel in Britain.
Whatley Manor edges it - Mutton pudding and some excellent Chablis. Maybe Financiers going to a Lock Inn at the Tunnelhouse, after dinner at Chaz and Camillas?
If you are looking for a plot device to get through a wooden door may I suggest thermite for which all you need is to mix aluminum powder and iron oxide or rust as we technical people call it
Of course annuities won't disappear. But they will compete with other investment options for a maturing pension pot and with higher rate returns for the over 65s. So...the annuity market will improve for the customers. The share of a pension pot going to you and me will increase and that going to the annuity providers will fall. GREAT! They'll not disappear but their share prices are rightly down. We were being ripped off in a non-free market before.
Exactly. In the grown up 21st century world annuities will still form part of provision especially as people get older ( annuity rates at 70/5 are clearly going to be more attractive than at 55/60), but they will, as you say, have to compete with direct bond purchases, blue chip shares, and yes a bit of property too in all likelihood. But it will be a proper market not a "broken" one, where the customers are delivered like tethered goats and the price is warped by QE and the compulsion to buy.
Speaking of annuities,can anyone remember from Monopoly,community chest,you have won a £200 annuity,I never knew what it was when I was a kid,but took the dosh anyway.
A friend of mine died unexpectedly last Sunday. I have just learned that another has fallen off his perch today (only late sixties and as fit as a fiddle, as far as anyone knew, just dropped dead). As bad things happen in threes I'd recommend anyone on this site with whom I have had cordial correspondence to mentally do a St. Peter (HurstLlama? Never heard of him).
If you are looking for a plot device to get through a wooden door may I suggest thermite for which all you need is to mix aluminum powder and iron oxide or rust as we technical people call it
The 911 conspiracy theorists,think it was Thermite that brought down the twin towers,my own experience was a nasty fire that cost my insurers £500k. Ho hum.
Simon Peter and another disciple were following Jesus. Because this disciple was known to the high priest, he went with Jesus into the high priest’s courtyard, but Peter had to wait outside at the door. The other disciple, who was known to the high priest, came back, spoke to the girl on duty there and brought Peter in. “You are not one of his disciples, are you?” the girl at the door asked Peter. He replied, “I am not.” ... As Simon Peter stood warming himself, he was asked, “You are not one of his disciples, are you?” He denied it, saying, “I am not.” One of the high priest’s servants, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, challenged him, “Didn’t I see you with him in the olive grove?” Again Peter denied it, and at that moment a rooster began to crow.
If you are looking for a plot device to get through a wooden door may I suggest thermite for which all you need is to mix aluminum powder and iron oxide or rust as we technical people call it
The 911 conspiracy theorists,think it was Thermite that brought down the twin towers,my own experience was a nasty fire that cost my insurers £500k. Ho hum.
I should have made clear my own experience with thermite was a fire I personally had,and nothing to do with 911. I still have nightmares about 911.
If you are looking for a plot device to get through a wooden door may I suggest thermite for which all you need is to mix aluminum powder and iron oxide or rust as we technical people call it
The 911 conspiracy theorists,think it was Thermite that brought down the twin towers,my own experience was a nasty fire that cost my insurers £500k. Ho hum.
I should have made clear my own experience with thermite was a fire I personally had,and nothing to do with 911. I still have nightmares about 911.
Thermite whether commercial or home made is undoubtedly nasty stuff with the capacity to do great harm if abused having said that it is also insanely useful stuff
A friend of mine died unexpectedly last Sunday. I have just learned that another has fallen off his perch today (only late sixties and as fit as a fiddle, as far as anyone knew, just dropped dead). As bad things happen in threes I'd recommend anyone on this site with whom I have had cordial correspondence to mentally do a St. Peter (HurstLlama? Never heard of him).
Meanwhile I think I might have a drinkie or two.
Mr L sorry to hear that. I am now determined we must meet up for a beer.
If you are looking for a plot device to get through a wooden door may I suggest thermite for which all you need is to mix aluminum powder and iron oxide or rust as we technical people call it
The 911 conspiracy theorists,think it was Thermite that brought down the twin towers,my own experience was a nasty fire that cost my insurers £500k. Ho hum.
I should have made clear my own experience with thermite was a fire I personally had,and nothing to do with 911. I still have nightmares about 911.
Thermite whether commercial or home made is undoubtedly nasty stuff with the capacity to do great harm if abused having said that it is also insanely useful stuff
Yes,indeed so. I was processing waste,from a paint company,in an inert N2 environment,when it went off,it does not need O2 to ignite. It was a very spectacular fire,fortunately no one was hurt,my thanks to Twisted FS mates for their help. I have great respect for thermite and its uses.
You could always have him make gunpowder. Flowers of sulphur were a traditional cure for many ills and may well be a pot of it in a fantasy larder. Saltpeter was used as a food preservative so likewise might be found in a larder. Charcoal I am sure you can come up with
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Could be wrong, of course. I'm not some sort of pyromaniac, and have thus never tested it.
Chortle
Tom Newton Dunn @tnewtondunn 9m
Interesting. "It's not about George or Boris any more. It's about George, or stop George." A Tory MP today, on how Commons tearoom dividing.
The result was a cracked stove and beans almost embedded into the carriage's wooden wall.
As for flour explosions: they still occur. Like this fatal one in 1965:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjyBCQoA8xw
Sugar does it as well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BythKAcY24Q
I also heard a steam explosion when a high-pressure steam main went bang due to someone backing a 60-foot trailer into it. A driver who fortunately kept his life, but lost his job,
" He said he hopes Vicarious’s computers will learn to how to cure diseases and create cheap, renewable energy, as well as performing the jobs that employ most human beings. “We tell investors that right now, human beings are doing a lot of things that computers should be able to do,” he said."
What will you do when the jobocalypse hits?
In our library behind me, there are shelves of books on explosions and ignition; be pleased to help with any specific point but after the weekend, as am driving to the Cotswolds early am tomorrow for lunch near Tetbury.
Just logged off and returned to find an unexpected new tab open and a few more dodgy looking things in my browser history (this is still on Chrome). I hope this doesn't signify some sort of serious problem.
It wouldn't just be @grantshapps who signed off on the beer and bingo poster. I wonder who else did......
I think Nick Palmer is demonstrating that for many Labour MPs the direction of travel is quite the reverse...
Best of the lot.
My fav bingo call was Clickety Duck for 62
I've many happy memories of that carriage. ;-)
If letting you choose how to spend your own money doesn't have "fairness hard wired in" then what does ?
When can we sack him ?
http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/mar/21/student-loans-unpaid-debt-problem-universities-adrian-bailey
Labour's "elite" won't offer a referendum on Europe because it doesn't trust the electorate to vote the right way, one of the party's own MPs said yesterday.
Ian Davidson said some of his colleagues believe voters cannot be "trusted" on the issue despite widespread concern about Britain's relationship with the European Union.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/10715001/Labour-MP-My-party-doesnt-trust-voters-over-EU-referendum.html
You only need the free version. Sometimes picks things up antiviruses miss.
All their best wheezes - mansion taxes, removal of personal allowance, abolition of TESSAs, robbery of pensions funds - stem from the idea that if you've got any money left after they've taxed your earnings, spending, breathing and saving, there's been some mistake and you need to have that taken off you too.
Microsoft Security Essentials. Free, efficient.
They have enough on me already.
Agree on MSE but what Kaspersky offers is an online scan which avoids you having to load more crap on your pc to clean up the crap.
Well you still have to load a small client but it is lightweight compared to a full install of a anti-virus prog.
The secret is to get it to do a text report which identifies the cause of the problem, otherwise it will just blackmail you into paying for the full programme if it does find something.
MSE doesn't do an online scan.
Best solution of all though would be to boot from a flash disk or CD and run the scan from there. Hiren's Boot CD would be what I recommend here but MD probably doesn't want to get that complicated.
Have you checked your installed software and uninstall anything suspicious,and all toolbars,usually installed unintentionally(they are all fairly useless).
Have fun,and good luck.
Edited extra bit: seen one, but a reboot is necessary. I'll try Malwarebytes first.
Sadly no one's told the stockmarket, my punts close with me down over £3k currently.
Happy Days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A little party trick from my hooligan youth.
If you are looking for a plot device to get through a wooden door may I suggest thermite for which all you need is to mix aluminum powder and iron oxide or rust as we technical people call it
Meanwhile I think I might have a drinkie or two.
Er, what's doing a St. Peter?
Now where's that Bobafett?
My thoughts with HL. Tempus fukit!
You could always have him make gunpowder. Flowers of sulphur were a traditional cure for many ills and may well be a pot of it in a fantasy larder. Saltpeter was used as a food preservative so likewise might be found in a larder. Charcoal I am sure you can come up with