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maybe they bent it in order to get the vga cable attached and it just fell to bits
VodkaOriginally Posted by Ephesians
Shouldn't have skimped on components!
Damn Times I think has banned me from posting, I never seem to be able to comment there.
Anyway there are a number of difference scenarios that could have caused this. Without knowing exactly how and what the blade is made from or where it failed then it's virtually impossible to say what happened. I could speculate though. It's been extremely cold recently so perhaps ice was forming on the blade(s) whilst they weren't moving and subsequently overloaded the blade when turning. Could be a process induced fault during manufacture. Aren't these blades made from some form of epoxy resin and man-made fibre, so it could have been a problem during the autoclave process or air trapped in lay-up causing de-lamination under stress.
One thing I am certain of it isn't a UFO or flying saucer.
"Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be." Frank Zappa. ----------- "The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike." Huang Po.----------- "A drowsy line of wasted time bathes my open mind", - Ride.
I thought I read something today about the air force claiming it was the result of some unmaned robot bomber planes being tested....think that Predator drone mixed with a Stealth Bomber....
I know those turbine props are fairly lightweight relative to the size, but that'd have to be one hell of a well made bomber to take out two props and fly away with leaving a hell of a mess behind...
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I lol'd.
Wind Turbines are useless, even the aliens know that.
See in the sun they said the blade was 'missing' adding to the confusion where others reported it had just fallen on the ground.
But if i'm right the sight has an RAF airfield (Scampton) on one side and a live firing range on the other. Doesn't take a genius to work out whats most likely happened here.
The Army was shooting at the Air Force?
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And you expected the Sun to write a factual article?
What? is that a joke. No smilies make it difficult to tell. But just in case. RAF live firing range. As in to get their aircraft to and from the range they must fly over or close to the turbines.
@ datamatrix. It sortashows the depth of the sun. There was a website that reported the blade missing and the sun obviously lifted the story from that without doing any checking at all. They were probobly to busy trying to find pics of flying saucers they could use.
You know it was mentioned it would need something the weight of a cow to knock this blade off - the guy who said this obviously isn't scientifically minded. Kinetic energy is a product of mass and velocity. For example, a longbow might release an arrow with a 50 ft-lbs of energy, yet a bullet which is far lighter can have over 1300 ft-lbs (taking 5.56mm NATO as an example). Something much lighter than a cow moving at a higher velocity can carry a much greater amount of energy. Something like a bullet, for instance. It's also a possibility that a bullet caused this. Like previously mentioned, there is an RAF live fire range nearby. Maybe a stray bullet hit it? It's unlikely if it was accidental but is certainly possible. The lights in the sky could have been tracer fire.
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