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2008-05-06 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Gaza/Egypt border looks like final climatic scenes from "Paint Your Wagon"

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-05-06 11:05|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 I think an explosive device might be designed that would be simple to use and lightweight. A tripod mounted vertical screw that would rapidly drill four of five feet straight down. Then an explosive rod would be put into the screw, designed to create a rock fracturing explosion in a cone pattern straight down.

The purpose would be to both collapse the roof and maybe walls of any tunnel in the vicinity, or at least to so thoroughly shatter the rock that any efforts to tunnel through the area will be much more difficult.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-05-06 12:30|| 2008-05-06 12:30|| Front Page Top

#2 I still think the tunnels (both known and unknown) are really subterranean sewage reserviors waiting to be flooded.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2008-05-06 14:29|| 2008-05-06 14:29|| Front Page Top

#3 Some gases are heavier than air....

Just saying...

Posted by CrazyFool 2008-05-06 16:04|| 2008-05-06 16:04|| Front Page Top

#4 Just as with Inshallah Aircraft Maintenance, I have faith in the competence of the Gaza Tunnel Authority.
We will hear from them again. Probably soon...

Posted by tu3031 2008-05-06 16:07|| 2008-05-06 16:07|| Front Page Top

#5 "Hello, there, Imam, Welcome to Hell!!!"

/channeling Lee Marvin in the tunnels of No-Name City

Posted by Alaska Paul in Thorne Bay, AK">Alaska Paul in Thorne Bay, AK 2008-05-06 17:01|| 2008-05-06 17:01|| Front Page Top

#6 Like propane?

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-05-06 17:37|| 2008-05-06 17:37|| Front Page Top

#7 Before you can fill a tunnel with gas, you have to find it, the rock shattering idea is better.

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2008-05-06 19:55|| 2008-05-06 19:55|| Front Page Top

#8 Second thought, dif a small trench about 15 feet deep, doesn't need to be wide, fill it with sand and plant sensors in the sand, any settling sets off an alarm.
Let them tunnel (Anyone else remember the final scenes of Cecil B. De Mille's classic as the priest smashes the glasses, the sand runs out, and the pyramid settles around the priests and evil ruler, sealing them away for eternity?)
(Evil Pharoh)"How do we get out?",(Priest)We Don't,I brouht poison, didn't you?

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2008-05-06 20:13|| 2008-05-06 20:13|| Front Page Top

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