On Sat, 6 Sep 2003 03:24:38 -0700, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Like, say, all those people in the Hindenburg? > > That was a far larger amount of hydrogen wrapped in a highly flammable > material. The design was stupid. Do you not realize that the > storage and use of hydrogen has improved over the decades? Why are > you so ready to dismiss over 50 years of progress so easily? ..the Hindenburg was adequately designed for helium. Post flash examination showed proved the airships safer transportation than babies crawling at home even including the Hindenburg into the post-WWI statistics. In the Hindenburg, the 30-odd non-survivors either jumped out too early and broke legs etc, or froze stiff inside the burning wreck after it came to rest on the ground and began to collapse, while the 60-odd survivors essentially waited until the ship came to rest on the ground and then ran away from the fire. ..essentially all WWI combat ships used hydrogen, and was designed for hydrogen, in one of the last french airship bomber missions, they caught well over 20 000 hits from German AA fire, delivered the bombs and made it back into a tree top on the French side, looking like a big sausage U. ..oh yeah, one of the guys sprained his ancle climbing down from that tree. ;-) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
