Pages
I’m a big Mythbusters fan, but here something was either horribly miscalculated or something went horribly wrong, someone could have easily died in this accident.
3 comments
1 |
Shiplord Kirel Thu, Dec 8, 2011 9:56:45am |
I’m a big fan of the show but holy-moly what a screw-up. I hope the show isn’t cancelled, but it will have to be put on hold until there is a thorough investigation and the results assessed.
Having been a range safety officer in the Army, I can see one major problem right away. A police bomb range like this one is simply not adequate for testing explosive projectile weapons of any kind, let alone a cannon. Note that the first house hit was just 700 yards from the launch point. This is probably an order of magnitude lower than the safe distance even for an improvised cannon.
Whatever errors were made in loading and designing the device would not have mattered if the range had been large enough to meet the requirements of a worst case scenario.
| 2 |
Shiplord Kirel Thu, Dec 8, 2011 10:00:47am |
This isn’t the first potentially lethal accident the show has had. A couple of years ago an unoccupied car they were running into a barrier crashed through a retaining wall and went over an embankment onto a public street. Nobody was hurt there, either but, as in the Dublin incident, that was just a matter of dumb luck
| 3 |
calochortus Thu, Dec 8, 2011 11:10:03am |
Apparently this was not the only incident involving the range, though the other one does not involve the Mythbusters. I suspect the range was there a long time before the housing went in-and the houses are just too close to it.
This is not to excuse the the errors made here, but it seems that they are handling it very well. I haven’t heard reports of a single actual complaint about it all and the insurance company and the Head Mythbusters themselves have been out talking to the victims and apologizing. Might be a lesson for big corporations to learn?
Once Praised, the Settlement to Help Sickened BP Oil Spill Workers Leaves Most With Nearly Nothing When a deadly explosion destroyed BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, 134 million gallons of crude erupted into the sea over the next three months — and tens of thousands of ordinary people were hired ...
Cheechako
Alone in a Bathroom: The Fear and Uncertainty of a Post-Roe Medication Abortion Angel tucked two white pills into each side of her mouth, bracing herself as they began to dissolve. Her deepest fears and anxieties took over. Angel had wanted to talk to a doctor before she took the pills to ... Cheechako
They Were Desperate to Get Pregnant. Then IVF Gave Them Extra Embryos. One morning last spring, Ashley Harrolle put her 1-year-old daughter down for a nap and went to the kitchen. She pulled up her fertility clinic’s contact information. It was time to make the call. In a freezer several hundred ... CheechakoJoe Bacon ✅
March FavoritesYou've seen these all already but looking back, just because. These are my favorite shots of this last month. That 1937 Zeiss Sonnar is such a gloriously wonderful bit of glass. Thanks for looking.
William Lewis
Russia’s New Combat Robots Blown Up by Drones Near Avdiivka When we landed on the moon, I thought about how science fiction had become real. Now, the robot wars have begun. It's more poignant somehow on the ground than in the missile wars we have in the air as ...
Rightwingconspirator
Why Did More Than 1,000 People Die After Police Subdued Them With Force That Isn’t Meant to Kill? An investigation led by The Associated Press has found that, over a decade, more than 1,000 people died after police subdued them through physical holds, stun guns, body blows and other force not intended to be lethal. More: Why ... CheechakoKGxvi
The Pandemic Cost 7 Million Lives, but Talks to Prevent a Repeat Stall In late 2021, as the world reeled from the arrival of the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus, representatives of almost 200 countries met - some online, some in-person in Geneva - hoping to forestall a future worldwide ... Cheechako
Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ... Cheechako
