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RapierFugue -> RE: Collar Bomb Drama In Progress (8/3/2011 8:21:20 AM)
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ORIGINAL: GreedyTop
gawd, you're bad!!! lol
<innocent look>
Moi? Surely not.
Related thing; I've got a mate who blows shit up for a living; she works as a civilian expert in explosive devices, analysing things like the remains of IEDs and mines, to establish "fingerprints" or commonalities between various groups, so the military or civilian authorities can gain a clearer picture of who is doing what, where, and how best to combat it. There's also data on yields from set amounts of explosive X, as well as the penetration testing of various military and civilian bomb casings to determine the best type of explosive, placement and size of charge necessary to disable an explosive device using other, more targeted, explosives.
She loves the job, partially because there's some very exacting scientific research and study involved, but also partially because she doesn't go a week without blowing something up to see what happens. I call that a pretty cool job :)
She also has a mine (geddit!) of hugely funny stories, like the newbie with lots of qualifications but zero common sense, who didn't check his calculations the mandatory 3 times when calculating the yield necessary to penetrate a <name of armoured vehicle deleted> with an IED of a new design that they were replicating for research purposes. Got the decimal point in the wrong place. Result? <excited phone call to me> "Bloody thing almost achieved near-earth orbit! There was a short "WTF?!" moment behind the sand bank, the newbie went white, then all four field phones went off at once with different COs screaming variations on a theme of "WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT?!" ... I just said "we're breaking in a new bloke" and they all went "Oh. Right. Ok". I swear bits of it took a good 20 seconds to land".
:)
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