@Jon Green
Yep, you've got the oxygen, hydrogen and ignition source, but you would also need containment to create an explosion - the only fuel that has mixed with the air will be outside the tank not inside, so you'll just get a fireball instead.
Posts by Ciaran Tracey
17 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Mar 2007
Mayor Ken buys hydrogen buses for London
Strap-on stealth jetplane for special forces
Italian boffin designs gecko-tech spiderman suit
Wednesday 29th August 2007 14:55 GMT
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“With the idea for the adhesion now in place, there are a number of other mechanics that need addressing before the Spiderman suit can become a reality ... man’s muscles, for example, are different to those of a gecko. We would suffer great muscle fatigue if we tried to stick to a wall for many hours."
surely all you need is a crampon with the sticky stuff instead of front spikes - we're quite well adapted to standing for many hours....
AT&T turns screws on iPhone unlocker
Livid woman torches ex-hubby's wedding tackle
Brit spooks: Yanks are frightful cowboys
Friday 27th July 2007 11:52 GMT
To those advocating torture
Even if you are prepared to ignore the illegality and morality of such actions, ask yourself this: if someone were to wire your bollocks to the mains, or subject you to "humane" techniques such as sensory deprivation for that matter (wtf? is mental torture somehow more humane than physical torture?), how long do you think it would be before you were declaring your father, your grandmother and your twelve year old niece as terrorists?
Information gained from such methods will be at best sketchy and at worst complete fabrication. The anonymous poster above hits the nail on the head with "only infiltration over a number of years leads to good intelligence".
Would you be so happy with the practice if you were taken from the street one day to be flown to another country for torture or detention, your friends and family having no idea where you've gone, just because the guy who lives down the road gave them your name to make them stop?
'Suspicious looking' man hauled off translatlantic flight
Thursday 12th July 2007 17:36 GMT
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there haven't been that many suicide bombers of any race in the states....
I have no idea of the statistics, but from the top of my head I can't remember any any incidents being reported of non-caucasians walking into a school and just opening fire to see how many people they can kill. Individually motivated shooting yes but not indiscriminate mass slaughter. And yet I somehow doubt the colour of my skin would cause me to be treated with more suspicion upon entering an educational establishment....
Mercury astronauts join al-Qaeda?
Wednesday 30th May 2007 09:37 GMT
RE: Crikey lord oh lummee
The essentail feature of irony is the indirect presentation of a contridiction between an action or expressions and the context in which it occurs. This headline, if taken as meaning all arabs are terrorists, would appear to be in direct contradiction the general tone El-Reg takes on the "War on terror" as peddled by our government and the mainstream press, and as such I consider it ironic.
I was not intending to imply that your comment was either in-appropriate or un-acceptable, I was merely pointing out that you were using a similar brand of humour to the article.
As for the anti-irish jokes, I can assure you that I take any joke with the intent with which it is delivered.
The flaws in the control order 'fantasy prison' mind game
Friday 25th May 2007 15:47 GMT
Rational?
That depends on the intent behind these control orders. If it was to soften the public up to the idea that the government needs to be allowed to remove our rights and personal freedoms in the "war on terror", then I'd say selecting a handful of people linked to high profile convicted terrorists and slapping control orders on them is a very rational idea. Of course you would need to make sure that these suspects could, and would abscond if you wanted an excuse for introducing more restrictive measures.....
US states press MySpace to give up sex offender data
'As I watch England turn into a quivering pile of dung'
Iran 'eight years' from operational nuke
Microsoft and Cisco eye Iceland for green server farms
Wednesday 11th April 2007 16:03 GMT
Definition of renewable?
>unlike with geothermal, where recovery will take a long time - but it will still happen, because the heat is constantly being replenished. I therefore think that geothermal should be classed as renewable
I dare say that oil and gas are constantly being replenished too, albeit at an extremely slow rate. Semantics perhaps but I guess the question is whether or not geothermal power is a sustainable energy source.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
