Please tell me they call the robot “Arthur”.
Unexploded artillery round?
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It's name is Jonny5
It did look a bit like it!
Go and watch Bluestone 42.
Would they even do an explosion overnight? Unless it was deemed unsafe and at risk of exploding any second. But if it's been sat there for many decades, leaving it till the following morning seems more likely.
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Nice lads, that's cool of them.
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Glad you are ok OP.
Don't tell me what to do
Wait, isn't that you telling me what to doDon't tell me what to do
http://www.google.com/search?q=bluestone+42+bird+arthur
!Never seen it. Looks terrible. I prefer the not so subtle racist tones of Jonny5
lots of explosives can easily survive a 100 years if they are away from light/heat and water.
They're dangerous alright...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10212890
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25594000
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"Boosted by false assumptions about explosives and ignorance of historical facts, the dangers posed by unexploded ordinance are frequently underestimated. “Contrary to what many people seem to think,” explains Bodes, “the explosives in the bombs haven’t lost any of their potency. The timescale for TNT to be broken down chemically is measured in millennia. Since the end of the war, there have been around 100 spontaneous detonations of undiscovered time-delay devices, so ‘letting sleeping dogs lie’ is not a sound principle.”"
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/apr/23/allied-bombs-still-threaten-hamburg-ww2
A munitions ship sank during WW2 just offshore from a place fairly close to where I lived as a kid. I used to cycle there quite often because in those days a 40 mile bike ride didn't seem all that much to me. The ship contained several thousand tonnes of high explosives, so if it went up it would be on a scale more commonly associated with nukes. It's still there because nobody has been able to come up with a way to dispose of it safely. It's probably inert now, but nobody knows for sure. And that's after 80 years in mud and silt and seawater.
I'm pretty sure the ship was the Montgomery. I remember that because of Scotty from Star Trek
Found it...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Richard_Montgomery
When I was a kid we all used to go down the beach and throw stones in it’s direction to see if we could get it to go boom….. Couldn’t get anywhere near it but it was fun trying…….lol
It’s only the equivalent of about 1400 tonnes of TNT……
Top tip - if you're diving in the channel and find a metal cylinder with some white stringy stuff in it, don't bring it back on the boat to show your mates. It'll dry out and the 'white stringy stuff' (or phosphorous to the rest of us) will start to fizz alarmingly before you chuck it back in the water and tell the Navy when you get back to shore.
Wasn't me, but a diving buddy....
Wasn't me, but a diving buddy....
Most of a bomb's filling is secondary explosive, ie a sensitive explosive mixed with an inert compound to make the explosive easier to handle. So it needs a detonator (primary explosive) to set the main filling off. You can drop a bomb without a fuse and it won't explode as it's that insensitive.
Now add a chunk of time and temperature variations, and the sensitive explosive starts to separate from the inert compound. You can get crystals forming round the cap covering the fuse pockets where the sensitive explosive is leeching out. Do not try and unscrew the cap.
Just need to look at butterfly bombs and how much of a menace they were