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The founding fathers of our future American Leaders.... here they are.

Lets unload the bomb
Need A Lift
Jackstands are for smart folk
Home made ladders
Paid Professional Try this At home
Who Said Water and Electricty don't mix?

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Are you certain the guy jacking up the truck is American?. It looks Eastern European to me.

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Is that bottles of beer in the background? As Homeland Security Beer taster I must impound that beer to protect it from eventual harm.

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Look where the guy is welding.....That large flat area is the gas tank http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/shock.gif

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I don't know what you guys are talking about. I looked at the fork truck that fell off the dock with the bomb on it and I still haven't stopped laughing long enough to click on the next link. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

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Wow, those people are so dangerous! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif Need to have an ambulance standing by... Just watch from a safe distance. I wonder how many forklifts can stack without falling over?

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Yea, like the guy who stood there after a bomb fell off the dock and took a picture of it instead of RUNNING!!! Kinda reminds you of the other post about the STUPID music industry. (please post there on that subject, I think it's "OT: Die music fans die")

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a.k.a. "How I learned to stop worrying and love the removal of the WARNING sign"

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I heard a story on the radio a while ago about the government munitions 'factory' (which is probably where this picture was taken). They talked about 'accidents' and said "If you hear the bomb hit the ground, you are gonna survive." Meaning that 'accidents' with bombs tend to be too quick to even allow an "Oh, [censored]!" moment before you die. And just how fast do you expect to be able to run anyway? Do you know how fast the pressure wave from a high-explosive moves? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

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I don't care. I hear a bomb hit the ground, I'm outa there. Just because it didn't blow right away...

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Yeah. You'd think that Americans would know this. In all the movies, a bomb seems to be a dud, and when they go to investigate... BOOM!

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I'm sure IF, I was able to run 100 mph. The pressure wave from a high-explosive probably moves at 101! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif

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Hey, surviving has a higher priority than any worries about looking rediculous.

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I can't speak for an un-fused bomb self detonating, but a nice tight ball of C4 has a blast wave that starts out at over 8800 meters/s. Get in the way of that, and they screen the dirt for your remains. The bomb in question is more likely to burn than blow. Without the detonator, it would be hard to concentrate enough energy to set it off. They are actually designed to withstand aircraft crashes without going off, even with the fuses in place.

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I knew if I posted a speed that someone would post the actual speed of an explosion. Soooo if an explosion expands at 8800 meters/s, THEN we can assume that a human could not exceed 8790 meters/s!!! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif

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Well the explosion would initially be expanding at a rate of roughly 19,325 mph. By comparison, a person could maybe run at about 18 mph, and only for a very short time.

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Good god... 8800 meters a second is orbital velocity! Humans, nor any other flesh & blood creature, can't possibly run at a measurable fraction of that.

And C4 isn't really the most powerful of high explosives. It's just a relatively cheap/easy to manufacture explosive that is powerful enough for what the military wants to do with it. More exotic explosives could probably double that velocity.

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It works in the movies :p

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Well, this is sort of a classic myth that does not have much basis in fact. Bombs and other munitions are typically designed to be dropped or damaged without exploding... Called Sailor Proofing or Soldier Proofing, depending on the background. Some of the newer bombs can even be shot or set afire and still wont explode.

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C4 is sort of famous that way. You can supposedly set it on fire and all you get is some really nasty smelling smoke. No boom unless you hit it with just the right electrical spark.

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When I lived in Turkey eight years ago, sights like this were very common. They tended to make do with whatever was available, with surprisingly few accidents.

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Wrong….Take a piece of C4 about the size of a golf ball and light it under a canteen cup of water, and you have almost instant boiling water. Many a Claymore fell victim to the cooking needs of soldiers in the field. Problem was when they reassembled them and put them back into stocks. It’s relatively safe to carry, and not have it go off from a near miss concussion, but hot shrapnel will set it on fire. Once upon a time, guys used to keep a block in the bottom of their rucks, with a pull detonator that could be quickly hooked to the ruck flap. If you had to drop your gear and bug out, you could hook it up and give the first guy to find the ruck a real bad day.

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The way I heard it from a guy in the reserves (who apparently had real training experience but I didn't go check his credentials... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif ) is that C4 needs BOTH fire & 'shock' (percussion, physical jolt) to detonate. You can burn it and it's perfectly safe. You can pound it with a hammer and it's perfectly safe -- as long as it's NOT on fire when you pound it! If you light it on fire and then pound the burning chunk of chemicals it will explode. So those guys warming their coffee over a chunk of C4 had better not drop anything on their cookfire fuel.

This relatively stable nature is what makes C4 so useful to the military. There are certainly other explosives more powerful, but these are apparently much more dangerous to handle.

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It takes energy. Put enough pressure on it and it will go off.

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/me recalls the movie 'Broken Arrow'...

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I just found out there is a Darwin Awards movie coming out next year. I reckon some of these would qualify.