 alkizmo
join:2007-06-25
Pierrefonds, QC
kudos:1 | reply to Zach 58
Re: Gas lines and DIY Someone needs to send this link to Mythbusters.
They did an episode on whether a building can blow up from a gas leak (based on a Jason Bourne movie) and they couldn't replicate an explosion.
They need to revisit the myth because that building obviously blew up! |
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 cdruGo ColtsPremium,MVM
join:2003-05-14
Fort Wayne, IN
kudos:7 | said by alkizmo:Someone needs to send this link to Mythbusters.
They did an episode on whether a building can blow up from a gas leak (based on a Jason Bourne movie) and they couldn't replicate an explosion.
They need to revisit the myth because that building obviously blew up! I don't think it's a myth that a building can blow up due to a gas leak. There's evidence in Indy, and with that in the news around here (120m north of Indy), a lot of people know of smaller explosions where friends or relatives were injured. DSLR even featured one that's about 10 miles away from Ken's current location. The myth is how the explosion happens, and the damage it causes. |
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said by alkizmo:Someone needs to send this link to Mythbusters.
They did an episode on whether a building can blow up from a gas leak (based on a Jason Bourne movie) and they couldn't replicate an explosion.
They need to revisit the myth because that building obviously blew up!
anyone from montreal should be aware of this one!!
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaSalle_He···Disaster |
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 Jack_in_VAPremium
join:2007-11-26
Mathews, VA
kudos:1 | reply to cdru
said by cdru:I don't think it's a myth that a building can blow up due to a gas leak. There's evidence in Indy, and with that in the news around here (120m north of Indy), a lot of people know of smaller explosions where friends or relatives were injured. DSLR even featured one that's about 10 miles away from Ken's current location. The myth is how the explosion happens, and the damage it causes.
Cause not determined for explosion
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"It is still an investigation so we're very limited on the information we can give out," said Gary Coons, the chief of the Indianapolis division of the Department of Homeland Security. "We're looking at everything -- all causes, all possibilities. There's a lot of possibilities out there. ... There's a lot of possibilities that could trigger an explosion like this."
Authorities said they had launched a probe into the explosion, but cautioned they might not know the cause for days.
"You're talking days -- it could be weeks," Capt. Rita Burris, spokeswoman for the Indianapolis Fire Department, told ABC News. "They're going over the scene and processing evidence. It's still in the investigation stage."
Sarah Holsapple, a spokeswoman for Citizens Energy, said that no gas leaks had been found and that other lines were being tested. She said, however, that she did not know how long the testing would take.
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Zach 58Premium
join:2006-11-26
NW Minnesota | reply to alkizmo
said by alkizmo:Someone needs to send this link to Mythbusters.
They did an episode on whether a building can blow up from a gas leak (based on a Jason Bourne movie) and they couldn't replicate an explosion.
They need to revisit the myth because that building obviously blew up!
No amount of Mythbuster gas explosion failures will convince me gas won't explode a building.  Back some 40 years ago in the one blinking stop light town in Manitoba where I'm from, there was a small barbershop just across the football field from the high school. One Saturday, in the wee hours of the morning, it went KABOOM. What started as a brick-faced, concrete block building was reduced to a basement with few steel beams remaining. The remainder was sprinkled all over town with the bulk landing in the football field.
Fast forward a few eons, after a couple of decades of being in the local volunteer fire company, I've seen my fair share of gas versus building along with creative homeowner repair failures. One of the most notable was a call on a very cold early morning for a structure fire. When we rolled up the fire was out but, what was a two-story farm house was now a 1.25 story house. The wife/mother was standing, dazed and confused, out in the -20*F cold wearing nothing but a nightgown. She stated that she turned on a stove burner to make coffee and saw a bright flash, heard a loud boom and was instantly in the back yard. Amazingly, she was unhurt other than some scorched hair. In each of the upstairs bedrooms we found the husband and teen-aged son. Both were laying on the floor beside the bed. Above each bed was a body impression in the ceiling. They were both seriously injured but survived.
If Mythbusters failed, they must have done it wrong. 
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 XoX
join:2003-08-19
Qc, Canada
 ·TekSavvy DSL
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said by alkizmo:Someone needs to send this link to Mythbusters.
They did an episode on whether a building can blow up from a gas leak (based on a Jason Bourne movie) and they couldn't replicate an explosion.
They need to revisit the myth because that building obviously blew up!
Hum... go watch that episode again since they did blow up the house but only reached that by increasing the amount of gas in the house.
They only failed to do it like in the movie. |
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 XPAMDPremium
join:2002-06-08
united state
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| said by XoX:said by alkizmo:Someone needs to send this link to Mythbusters.
They did an episode on whether a building can blow up from a gas leak (based on a Jason Bourne movie) and they couldn't replicate an explosion.
They need to revisit the myth because that building obviously blew up!
Hum... go watch that episode again since they did blow up the house but only reached that by increasing the amount of gas in the house. They only failed to do it like in the movie. That episode was based in the movie where the guys shoots (i forget which gun) through a carton of milk which supposedly prevents the explosion. They proved that its not the milk, but the gun doesn't produce enough spark.
It wasn't until they changed from Natural gas to Hydrogen Gas could they get an ignition if I am not mistaken.
Gas will ignite with the RIGHT ignition source/temp and gas/air mix. |
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alkizmo
join:2007-06-25
Pierrefonds, QC
kudos:1 | said by XPAMD:That episode was based in the movie where the guys shoots (i forget which gun) through a carton of milk which supposedly prevents the explosion. They proved that its not the milk, but the gun doesn't produce enough spark.
It wasn't until they changed from Natural gas to Hydrogen Gas could they get an ignition if I am not mistaken.
Gas will ignite with the RIGHT ignition source/temp and gas/air mix.
/Facepalm
Yes I remember now!
They also tried to start an explosion by putting a magazine in a toaster.
They weren't actually trying to make an impressive explosion. |
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 DataDocMy avatar looks like me, if I was 2D.Premium
join:2000-05-14
Greenville, NC
·Suddenlink
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said by Zach 58:If Mythbusters failed, they must have done it wrong.
Here's someone that did it right:
»www.washingtonpost.com/local/poo···ory.html
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