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Expecting heavy snow or freezing rain? Be prepared! Simply
purchase the appropriate size of MaxCo. Detcord Net and lay it
on your driveway before the freeze begins. Once the ice has
built up, simply connect the trailing lead to the Special Box with
the Big Button. Press the aforementioned
Big Button. Repair
windows. Job done.
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Note: Remove parked vehicles before operating. |
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//Remove parked vehicles before operating.// We prefer the
phrase "Parked vehicles should be removed." |
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... or they will be removed anyway. |
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More in the sense of "this should remove the vehicles". |
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Loose snow wouldn't respond well unless you had really good
coverage. So you'd need really good coverage. |
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The solution to that problem is to pour on plenty of water
until you soak the snow and have good reason to fire the net. |
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Is this the moment to remind everyone that the pressure wave from such an assembly will be pretty much isotropic, with the snow overburden acting as a tamper ? |
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Or should we just leave it until after someone tries this on their expensive printed-concrete driveway ? |
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Max - You do realise that your are now "a person of
interest" in GCHQ by virtue of posting an idea that
includes a certain combination of words? |
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//Is this the moment// No, not really. |
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//"a person of interest" in GCHQ// I like to think I'm a person
of interest generally. Or at least an object of curiosity. |
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Listen out for strange clicks on your phone.... |
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Oh, I get those all the time. Bloody amateurs. |
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////"a person of interest" in GCHQ// I like to think I'm a
person of interest generally.// |
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I assume we're all on some lists. Ticking boxes for knowledge
and experience of potentially dangerous technologies, then
ticking other boxes marked "Motivated only by gin" or
"fanatically opposed to every single ideology". |
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//"Motivated only by gin" or "fanatically opposed to every single ideology"// Proviso: must be good gin. |
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Also, conjunction error: 'or' should definitely read 'and', definitely, definitely 'and'. |
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The entire 1/2B is at the spiky end of the autism/gifted spectrum. Definitely. |
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Might be more practical if the driveway is poured with tubes
or sufficient porosity so it can sweat out a viscous liquid
explosive of some kind. Of course, you'd need to figure out
how to get only the stuff exposed on the surface to explode,
not the stuff coming up behind it. |
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[notexactly] alternate your explosive gel with a dense inert
gel. To explode, force explosive out onto the surface. To
reset, force the inert gel out to "clear the tubes", then more
explosive gel (backed up by more inert gel). Would probably
need a distribution of individual dispensers, rather than a
"central" unit (unless you can rig all feed tubes to work
exactly the same... perhaps if they were all the same
length, regardless of final "outlet" position). |
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//Might be more practical if ...// Do you think you could hold
off on the innovation until we've recovered the sunk costs of
the Detcord Net development project? I used the Intercalary's
savings to pay for it, and he'll be very pissed off because he
was planning to spend the money on a name transplant as
soon as a donor became available. |
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A major disadvantage of my version is that it'll take a lot
longer to develop, so I think you'll naturally have at least
several years without much competition. |
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//alternate your explosive gel with a dense inert gel// |
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Yes. I was imagining a sort of grid of explosive lipsticks.
Alternating explosive and inert stripes improves that idea a lot.
But how did you propose to initiate all these point charges
together, without setting off more than one layer at a time? |
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Uniqnely addressable initiators embedded in the composition, at the base of each layer. The detonation initiates the layer above, the layer of inert gel below dissipates and attenuates the shock wave. |
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A multi-component inert gel, akin to the explosive lenses used in early gadgets, would give the optimum results. |
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Can I just make the general comment that [8th]'s use of the
word "optimum" is not necessarily what you might think. |
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Well, bun for blowing stuff up anyway. |
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