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CarlS
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May 21, 2017, 07:04:33 PM »
While not the time period we mostly discuss, here is a WWII bomb being detonated in England:
http://www.msn.com/en-us/video/downtime/wwii-bomb-never-exploded-until-now/vi-BBBiOiA?ocid=spartandhp
Still had pretty good energy.
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May 21, 2017, 07:15:35 PM »
Did they have a control experiment to show how much of that dirt and smoke was from the old bomb and how much was from the explosives used to "control" the detonation or is this merely a titillating video without any context?
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May 21, 2017, 11:18:53 PM »
In this case there was no context to the video. This gives some more info:
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-39939925
Amazingly they spent two days getting the bomb ready to blow up by packing sand around it and evacuating the area. It shut down the interstate and rail for two days.
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