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« Reply #960 on: February 15, 2009, 11:25:36 PM »
I saw a friend at the gun show today and bought a nice little fixed blade drop point knife with a 3" blade of ATS 34 steel and canvas micarta handle with full tang from him. It is a practical size knife, I bought a similar model from him several years back with red jigged bone handle, he'll probably never be a famous knife maker but I like his work. I also ordered a bone handled Bowie from him that I should get in about 4 months. I'll post pictures of todays purchase and the red fox model later.
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« Reply #961 on: February 17, 2009, 06:31:05 AM »
The SS soldiers had oat porridge and mineral water for breakfast.
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« Reply #962 on: February 17, 2009, 06:42:17 AM »
Himmler had some fucked up dietary notions. I'm pretty sure that Reinhard Heydrich was a meat and potatoes type of guy. I doubt that most vegetarians could get out of a car with grenade shrapnel and seat springs in their back to shoot at their assassins. And I know from eating Seventh Day Adventist food that meat substitute does not taste like meat.
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« Reply #963 on: February 17, 2009, 07:05:58 AM »
Heydrich was BRAVE even if most of the world hated him.
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« Reply #964 on: February 17, 2009, 07:08:41 AM »
He was a tough son of a bitch.
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« Reply #965 on: February 17, 2009, 07:14:39 AM »
His autopsy protocol says that he probably died of poisoning from undetonated TNT in his spleen.  8)
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« Reply #966 on: February 17, 2009, 07:32:01 AM »
Then it's a good thing for him it didn't detonate. That might have killed him.  :green: :asthing:
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« Reply #967 on: February 17, 2009, 10:33:07 AM »
Chlorates and perchlorates were licensed in Sweden in 1942, probably while you can make pretty strong plastic explosives of them with simple means.

Surprisingly they became totally free again in 1988.
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #968 on: February 17, 2009, 11:01:46 AM »
I can make a very large bomb just from stuff I could find in your house.
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I will never stop...
always constant, accurate, and intense."

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« Reply #969 on: February 17, 2009, 11:03:33 AM »
So could I.  :eyebrows:
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« Reply #970 on: February 17, 2009, 06:42:08 PM »
There are two scientifically accepted definitions of a high explosive:

1. Something is a high explosive if the VOD exceeds 1000 metres/second.

2. Something is a high explosive if the VOD is higher than the speed of the sound through the explosive.

All explosives that fulfil 1) also fulfil 2).

All methods are scientifically accepted to make the VOD fulfil the criterias, like detonating a mechanicaly pressed amount of the explosive in a metal tube.

Black powder in a metal tube can explode at about 400 m/s and thus do not by far fulfil even 1).

Dynamite for civilian use usually has a VOD of 3000-5000 m/s.

Military TNT, which by tradition is the explosive that all others are compared with, has a VOD of about 7000 m/s.

The fastest not thermobaric explosive in the world is TNGU, which detonates at the "magic" 10000 m/s limit. Recently the Russians have succeeded making thermobaric bombs that might have a VOD 6-8 times higher than that(!)

Flash powder fulfils the criterias of a HE if the quantity is large enough; it becomes "self-confining" then. The VOD is at least 1400 m/s, which is relatively much, considering that flash is just a mix of two or more oxidizers/fuels and not a chemical compound.
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« Reply #971 on: February 17, 2009, 07:55:44 PM »
Impressive. I see you've read into this. :laugh:
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« Reply #972 on: February 17, 2009, 08:55:30 PM »
And not just read.  :angel:

Yup. It's one of my obsessions.  8)

The greatest explosion ever in Sweden was in 1966, when 66000 tons of TNT were detonated in northern Lappland to simulate a nuclear explosion. 8)
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« Reply #973 on: February 17, 2009, 09:14:20 PM »
The first German towns to be captured by US troops in WWII were Eschweiler and Stohlberg in the Rhineland.
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« Reply #974 on: February 18, 2009, 11:28:57 AM »
 :zoinks: Lol aspie intrests FTW.
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