FRIDAY 13TH

[Michael Blackman]

I was thinking more of the singed anal hairs and the smell.  Unlucky for all
concerned


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From: M Holmes <fofp at HOLYROOD.ED.AC.UK>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 12:47 AM
Subject: Re: FRIDAY 13TH


> Michael Blackman writes:
>
> > How was the stuff ;-)
> >
> > Friday the 13th is only unlucky if you think it is.  Any day could be
> > unlucky if enough focus was directed on it.  Even more so when alot of
> > people are all feeling that way.
> >
> > Unlucky is lighting your farts with a match to amuse the other
travellers on
> > the Hindenburg or something similar.
>
> It's an error to believe that the Hindenburg was primarily downed by
> burning hydrogen. The flame was orange, not blue. It's likely that it
> was downed by a spark from a buildup of static discharge earthing on the
> pylon or ground through a tether. This lit the paint lining on the
> balloon, which rather unfortunately was made out of stuff we now use as
> rocket fuel. That does burn with an orange flame.
>
> Of course the hydrogen got going a little later, but it looks like it
> wasn't the primary problem.
>
> Seems to me that the engineering message to take home is not to paint
> aircraft with rocket fuel.
>
> Of course now we fill them with helium instead of hydrogen too.
>
> FoFP
>