Re: Traction (was Re: OT: Debian Mailinglist server slow?)

[Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net>]

On Sat, 6 Sep 2003 03:24:38 -0700, 
Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca> wrote in message 
<[🔎] 20030906102437.GA7488@ursine.ca>:

> > 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.