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15 Dec 2007, 7:06 am

Years ago I read a story about some guy who had gastric ulcers. His doctor prescribed a bland diet for him. The fellow looked at the unappetising fare listed thereon, curled his lip, and stated, "I'd do better if I ate nothing but pancakes and shaving cream." A scientific study was promptly organised. The pancake-and-shaving-cream eaters did indeed fare neither better nor worse than their bland-diet counterparts.

All this happened well before anyone thought to lay the blame on Helicobacter pylori, naturally enough.



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15 Dec 2007, 7:11 am

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Years ago I read a story about some guy who had gastric ulcers. His doctor prescribed a bland diet for him. The fellow looked at the unappetising fare listed thereon, curled his lip, and stated, "I'd do better if I ate nothing but pancakes and shaving cream." A scientific study was promptly organised. The pancake-and-shaving-cream eaters did indeed fare neither better nor worse than their bland-diet counterparts.

All this happened well before anyone thought to lay the blame on Helicobacter pylori, naturally enough.


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15 Dec 2007, 7:19 am

Here's a razor in case you land in the pile of shaving cream.....


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15 Dec 2007, 7:26 am

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Here's a razor in case you land in the pile of shaving cream.....


*Throws richie into the Gorge of Eternal Peril.*

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15 Dec 2007, 7:30 am

Climbs back out and throws QM in...


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15 Dec 2007, 7:33 am

*roars*

I am Sleepy Dragon!

I am overdue for molting! I seek the magic lotion of healing which will permit me to shed these wretched scales! Something sodium-hydroxide-based, I'm thinking. Not acidic. Definitely not bleach, either, it turns the scales the most ghastly shade of greyish-yellow.

Shaving cream, hmmm. It can't do any harm.

*irritably scratches one wing*



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15 Dec 2007, 7:43 am

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Modern bunker busters penetrate through a hard surface, and then blow up inside a structure. It blasts buildings into pieces.


Does it use a shaped charge for initial penetration?


Not sure, but if it helps with penetration, maybe so.


Well, you do know what a shaped charge is, doncha?


Yes. A brilliant example would be the Claymore mine. Shaped charges are also used in reactive armour, too.


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15 Dec 2007, 7:44 am

Interesting...

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15 Dec 2007, 7:53 am

Anubis wrote:
Quatermass wrote:
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Modern bunker busters penetrate through a hard surface, and then blow up inside a structure. It blasts buildings into pieces.


Does it use a shaped charge for initial penetration?


Not sure, but if it helps with penetration, maybe so.


Well, you do know what a shaped charge is, doncha?


Yes. A brilliant example would be the Claymore mine. Shaped charges are also used in reactive armour, too.


I meant like a HEAT missile. A Claymore is more like a shotgun. I meant like an inverted cone of metal surrounded by explosive. Explosive goes off, metal cone inverts and becomes a hypersonic slug of metal going at a great rate of knots. Punch through most things.


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15 Dec 2007, 7:53 am

In one of the mines where my husband used to work, he supervised quite a lot of shotfiring. Drill holes in the face in the specified pattern, tamp in the powder, position and wire detonators, retreat around two corners, and up she goes. The dets were timed so that some would fire milliseconds before or after others as required. If the round didn't fire the way it was supposed to, much tedious investigation was needed to find out why.



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15 Dec 2007, 7:55 am

LOL QM and Sleepy Dragon posted at exactly the same time.

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15 Dec 2007, 7:57 am

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LOL QM and Sleepy Dragon posted at exactly the same time.

*wins*


Oh, goody-goody yum yum.


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15 Dec 2007, 7:59 am

Sorry, it was just a small detail.


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15 Dec 2007, 8:04 am

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Sorry, it was just a small detail.


You've gotta get yer laughs when you can. :D



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15 Dec 2007, 9:44 am

I'm Baa-aack from the land of the dead people (in other words I'm awake.) :twisted:

So lend me your minds so I can torment you properly!


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15 Dec 2007, 9:52 am

Hey Beth! How'd the sleep study go?