From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Sun May 22 2005 - 10:22:59 PDT
At 7:18 AM -0500 5/22/05, Everette wrote:
>please do not take this as a flame - you have quoted what gumment said - I
>think a bunch of "good ole boys" just wanted to see what would happen when
>they blew her up - I remember an old battle ship in an atomic bomb test that
>would not sink, and it took a lot of work - seems to me like shell fire from
>destroyer would not do it - had to get a sub to torpedo her
Did you read about the Test that a Centurion tank
was subjected to at one of the joint Nuke tests
in the south pacific? The Centurion was left
running at the test site. 10 minutes before the
test, the tank ran out of gas. After the test the
tank was towed away from the test area and
examined. It wasn't terribly hot after the test
and after a bit of minor repair to outside parts
(sheetmetal, etc) it was placed back in service
no worse for wear.
;-)
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