Within a whisker of failure

"Ian Jackson" wrote in message
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In message , Roderick Stewart
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In article , Charles wrote:
Exactly. It's a well-known fact that a high concentration of lead in a
very short time can be very fatal very quickly.

It's better to make your bullets out of ice. Then, by the time the body is
found the bullet has melted and no-one knows you shot the traffic warden
from behind the chimney where you were working.

Whoops.

Bill

"Robin Faichney" wrote in message
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On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 01:50:10 +0100, "Bill Wright"
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Bill Wright for Chief Scientific Adviser!

Actually I see myself as PM.

Bill

"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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"charles" wrote in message
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In article , Paul Ratcliffe
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On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 08:16:38 +0100, charles
wrote:
No-one is required to throw anything away and for repairs to existing
equipment you can still used leaded solder.

No-one repairs things nowadays. It isn't worth it.


There was an interesting article in the the ERT trade magazine a few weeks
ago, it was titled something along the lines of 'From showroom to landfill'
describing how ever increasing numbers of large flat screen tvs were winding
up in landfills after as little as 14 months of use, simply because of the
complete lack of any kind of backup, and even where there was, many
manufacturers were deliberately designing in none-serviceability and pricing
spares at such astronomical prices that repairs would be totally
uneconomic.. There was also the suggestion that the government should
intervene and compel firms to supply service information and spares for up
to six years after manufacturer.

Bill

In message , Bill Wright
writes

"Ian Jackson" wrote in message
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In message , Roderick Stewart
writes
In article , Charles wrote:
Exactly. It's a well-known fact that a high concentration of lead in a
very short time can be very fatal very quickly.

It's better to make your bullets out of ice. Then, by the time the body is
found the bullet has melted and no-one knows you shot the traffic warden
from behind the chimney where you were working.

Whoops.

Bill

Has this been done? I've often wondered if a falling icicle has been
responsible for a death caused by mystery murder weapon.
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Ian

On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 07:59:38 GMT, "Brian Gaff" wrote:

By the way, I have no idea what has been done to that page you sent as a
link, but its totally unreadable as English, sounding like excerpts jumbled
together compared with most web sites.

Try the printable page Brian:-
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology...ineering/print


Geo

On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 13:58:38 +0100, Ian Jackson
wrote:

In message , Bill Wright
writes

It's better to make your bullets out of ice. Then, by the time the body is
found the bullet has melted and no-one knows you shot the traffic warden
from behind the chimney where you were working.

Has this been done? I've often wondered if a falling icicle has been
responsible for a death caused by mystery murder weapon.

Wasn't there a "Tales of the Unexpected" where the police ate the
murder weapon, a frozen leg of lamb?

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In message , Roderick
Stewart writes
In article , Charles wrote:
This problem is well known. *That is why products for medical or
military use may continue to use solder which contains lead.

So it's OK for them to bugger up the environment but not us?

Does is really "bugger up the environment"? *The reason that they are
allowed to continue to use lead is that they both require their equipment
to be reliable.

Of course, the military need to have reliable ways of killing people, but
haven't they already got a much quicker way of using lead to do this...?

Rod.

Exactly. It's a well-known fact that a high concentration of lead in a
very short time can be very fatal very quickly.

Especially so when the dosage is applied at mach 1 or faster.

BTW, you have a redundent "very" in that last sentence. :-)

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Regards, John.

Please remove the "ohggcyht" before replying.
The address has been munged to reject Spam-bots.

On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 14:33:33 +0100, wrote:

On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 13:58:38 +0100, Ian Jackson
wrote:

In message , Bill Wright
writes

It's better to make your bullets out of ice. Then, by the time the body is
found the bullet has melted and no-one knows you shot the traffic warden
from behind the chimney where you were working.

Has this been done? I've often wondered if a falling icicle has been
responsible for a death caused by mystery murder weapon.

Wasn't there a "Tales of the Unexpected" where the police ate the
murder weapon, a frozen leg of lamb?


"Lamb to the Slaughter"

Not only that the deceased wasa policeman too, killed by his newly
pregnant wife.


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Tim

I understand very little of what's being discussed
but for some reason it's fascinating.

(Jon Thompson, urs)

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On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 13:58:38 +0100, Ian Jackson
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In message , Bill Wright
writes

It's better to make your bullets out of ice. Then, by the time the body is
found the bullet has melted and no-one knows you shot the traffic warden
from behind the chimney where you were working.

Has this been done? I've often wondered if a falling icicle has been
responsible for a death caused by mystery murder weapon.

Wasn't there a "Tales of the Unexpected" where the police ate the
murder weapon, a frozen leg of lamb?

Well, freezing something that is otherwise relatively harmless when
used as a projectile was proven to have potentially fatal consequences
by BR when they loaded the test cannon with a frozen chicken to verify
that the driver's screen on the HST was bird strike proof. They got
rather a shock when they managed to prove the screen wasn't
_frozen_bird_ strike proof!

Of course, when they realised their mistake and thawed the ammunition
out to more accurately simulate a "real life" scenario (it's extremely
unlikely that a high speed vehicle will ever encounter a frozen bird
[1]), they got the hoped for results.

[1] Not impossible, just extremely unlikely. I'm not suggesting that a
certain species of goose, famous for being able to fly at heights in
excess of 30,000 feet, couldn't expire in flight and end up in a frozen
state by the time it dropped to ground level during the winter months
whilst the air temperatures right down to ground level were at or below
freezing. Even assuming a small probabilty of such an event, there still
remain the other two factors of place and time for it to be hit by a
suitably speeding vehicle (whether it be a train or a low flying
aircraft).

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Regards, John.

Please remove the "ohggcyht" before replying.
The address has been munged to reject Spam-bots.

In message , Johnny B Good
wrote
Well, freezing something that is otherwise relatively harmless when
used as a projectile was proven to have potentially fatal consequences
by BR when they loaded the test cannon with a frozen chicken to verify
that the driver's screen on the HST was bird strike proof. They got
rather a shock when they managed to prove the screen wasn't
_frozen_bird_ strike proof!

Of course, when they realised their mistake and thawed the ammunition
out to more accurately simulate a "real life" scenario (it's extremely
unlikely that a high speed vehicle will ever encounter a frozen bird
[1]), they got the hoped for results.

A brick on a string hanging over the line from a bridge is fairly
normal.

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Alan
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