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Metalworking (rec.crafts.metalworking) Discuss various aspects of working with metal, such as machining, welding, metal joining, screwing, casting, hardening/tempering, blacksmithing/forging, spinning and hammer work, sheet metal work. |
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On Aug 22, 5:53*pm, pyotr filipivich wrote:
Note that Enola Gay had no trouble flying home. * * * * Note as well, that the Enola Gay had no transistorized equipment. pyotr filipivich You all caught the small issue and missed the big one, the short mean free path of electrons at low altitude prevents them from generating much of a pulse outside the blast radius. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_pulse Compare 20KV/meter to a lightning strike, which power lines, aircraft instruments and radio towers generally survive. Several years ago it hit the pole outside my house and fried the phone line protection circuit, but didn't damage the cheap electronic phone connected to it. Trimmed to r.c.m because "Google Groups does not currently support posting to the following usenet groups: "misc.survivalism"" jsw |