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oldpoint is up in space doing important work for NASA.,
Mon 12 Feb 2018, 10:54,
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There's a world war two bomb in the ThamesThere must be loads, quite honestly. Is there a real danger of these things going off? Has it ever happened?
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Barbarossa is not my real name,
Mon 12 Feb 2018, 11:34,
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Indeed they can cause a lot of damagedepending on the size, a 500lb bomb for example (in a controlled area)
https://www.forces.net/news/watch-army-destroys-one-largest-unexploded-wwii-bombs
(https://www.forces.net/news/watch-army-destroys-one-largest-unexploded-wwii-bombs
oldpoint is up in space doing important work for NASA.,
Mon 12 Feb 2018, 11:50,
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I had no ideaWW2 bombs sounded quite so much like 1980s synthesizers when they went off. The Blitz must have been like a massive Skinny Puppy gig.
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DogHorse plop,
Mon 12 Feb 2018, 12:33,
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I am the maggot's muscle, magnet missile, your mother's pissholeoh yeah
mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this,
Mon 12 Feb 2018, 17:56,
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The danger is very real.According to my ex-UXB, bomb disposal dad.
This is his favourite, go-to story. According to him the real danger is the degradation of the fail-safes in the munitions. The explosives themselves are still dangerous, and increasingly unstable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Richard_Montgomery
(This is his favourite, go-to story. According to him the real danger is the degradation of the fail-safes in the munitions. The explosives themselves are still dangerous, and increasingly unstable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Richard_Montgomery
2Pints , at the third stroke, it will be,
Mon 12 Feb 2018, 12:32,
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Does that mean at some point it's pretty much certain all the unexploded ones we haven't found yet are going to go off?
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Mon 12 Feb 2018, 13:00,
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