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November 1, 2013
"No problem. I've done this thousands of times...."
An engineer who blew up a whale carcass in Oregon using some 20 cases of dynamite has died, but the biggest bang of his career will live forever in YouTube infamy.
Posted by gerardvanderleun at November 1, 2013 9:25 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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I remember my late father's exact reaction when this went down on TV. He was amused that anyone using explosives would not know that it would blow back on the side that the explosives were placed. Dad was an explosives guy in the war.
After all, how much explosive would it take to penetrate several wet, decomposing whales on the sand? Well, certainly way more than they had. The force goes in a ways, then back out the way it went in. And all over the audience. Hee hee hee.
Posted by: Casey Klahn at November 1, 2013 10:00 AM
"What an incredible smell you've discovered." ~Han Solo
Posted by: Cond0011 at November 1, 2013 10:30 AM
Lesson learned; Rosie O’Donnel will only need 19 cases of dynamite upon her beaching.
Posted by: tim at November 1, 2013 11:01 AM
If they can remember what not to do in the future they certainly must not be Politicians.
Posted by: Kelvin at November 1, 2013 11:09 AM
An explosion, basically being a fluid (in the physics sense) will follow the path of least resistance. If you don't tamp the hole in which you place your charges, whether it's in a quarry or a dead whale, that becomes an escape route for the hot gases. As was graphically demonstrated here...
Posted by: waltj at November 1, 2013 1:13 PM
"Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time."
Posted by: Army Corps at November 1, 2013 2:29 PM
The Cadillac damage was a fluke.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at November 1, 2013 4:43 PM