Re: FN-FORUM: pushing the envelope

date posted 18th June 2005 21:48

nick b wrote:
> all I'm gonna add to this odd thread is that the ORACLE of all
> scientific knowledge : that's - wait for it - Brainiac (on Sky One I
> think) has investigated this mobile-phone petrol station query in
> their usual controlled and restrained manner:
>
> Fill one caravan with petrol tins, petrol-laden cloths and other open
> petrol-type-things. Then, take 10-20 old mobile phones, all charged
> and working, and place them in key places around the caravan
> including right next to the petrol tanks.
>
> From 100m or so, call each one of these with several other mobiles,
> in as frantic a style as possible. They were REALLY trying, and not
> even a damp whiff of smoke.
>
> Q.E.D., err or something :)

Gawd, isn't this just why accidents happen? Take any one of those 'phones
with a faulty connection or component resulting in an arc. Now try! Perhaps
someone with a faulty 'phone either arcing away or with a red-hot
breaking-down resistor would care to sit in the same caravan under the same
conditions whilst the experiment's rerun. Offers?

I know someone somewhere wants to convince that electrical products and
flashable fuel vapour go together. Not from a qualified view mind you, but
by reference to what someone did or wrote, otherwise known as hearsay. Then,
someone impressionable takes chances. Then something terrible happens. All
as the result of information reference in the class that proves man didn't
land on the moon, aliens live with us, and a certain day will be the end of
the world.

We're dealing with a subject of potential danger here. Unless an
authoritative figure and with something to assist the thread requestor
please leave it!



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