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2006-04-16 Science & Technology

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Posted by Anonymoose 2006-04-16 12:57|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 happened to me once when put dish soap in the dishwasher.

Posted by 2b 2006-04-16 13:55|| 2006-04-16 13:55|| Front Page Top

#2 So some poor troop back in the tail of an aricraft pounding rivets will drown before he could get out of the aircraft and to an exit. Just what is it they are trying to save?

Posted by 49 Pan 2006-04-16 17:41|| 2006-04-16 17:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Oh my god, can you imagine the smell. (If that foam is what I think it is)

Posted by Fleager Thrulet2653 2006-04-16 20:01|| 2006-04-16 20:01|| Front Page Top

#4 The aircraft.

Posted by 6 2006-04-16 20:01|| 2006-04-16 20:01|| Front Page Top

#5 Aircraft have lots of flammable fuel, and military aircraft can also have big explosive things hanging off of them. Fire is a very, very bad thing in that situation, so the goal is to stop it ASAP.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2006-04-16 21:08|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-04-16 21:08|| Front Page Top

#6 Got that, but there are many different, directionalized systems, that will not kill the maintenance crews if there is a fire. The reason to stop it asap is to limit death, not induce it.

Posted by 49 Pan 2006-04-16 22:05|| 2006-04-16 22:05|| Front Page Top

#7 Used to mind a Cyber 73/74 deep in the bowels of the Love Building (really) at FSU. The halon system was so fast I figured I only had a 50/50 chance to get out before I succumbed to oxygen starvation. Of course I was easily replaceable.

Posted by 6 2006-04-16 22:09|| 2006-04-16 22:09|| Front Page Top

#8 6,
I had to deal with a Halon system in a missile (AGM-69 and -86) assembly building - we figure we had just enough time to say "Oh, sh*t" before we suffocated.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2006-04-16 22:38|| 2006-04-16 22:38|| Front Page Top

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