The Never Ending Story

[Captain]

41 minutes ago, turboplanner said:

Harry  lit the gas for a cup of coffee and just as he did, the cork departed ........

..... for Kalgoorlie, just as the flame under the kettle caused methane ignition to occur, and the methane–air mixture within its flammable concentration limits was exposed and the gas under the kettle, which provided sufficient energy to initiate an exothermic oxidation reaction.

 

The resulting chemical reaction generated heat and reactive intermediate species, (plus sand being blown all over the joint) where it sustained combustion and a propagating flame front tore through the unburned mixture, and along Harry's tail.

 

As all NESers know, where combustion occurs rapidly in a confined or congested environment like the kitchen at Lasseter's mine, significant pressure could, and most likely would, develop and a resultant explosion therefore lit the morning sky as far as Leonora.

 

Not only that, but Harry's freckle after the explosion looked a lot like Turbo's sad and damaged example, and that meant that ......

[Captain]

3 hours ago, Captain said:

.... for Kalgoorlie, just as the flame under the kettle caused methane ignition to occur, and the methane–air mixture within its flammable concentration limits was exposed and the gas under the kettle, which provided sufficient energy to initiate an exothermic oxidation reaction.

 

The resulting chemical reaction generated heat and reactive intermediate species, (plus sand being blown all over the joint) where it sustained combustion and a propagating flame front tore through the unburned mixture, and along Harry's tail.

 

As all NESers know, where combustion occurs rapidly in a confined or congested environment like the kitchen at Lasseter's mine, significant pressure could, and most likely would, develop and a resultant explosion therefore lit the morning sky as far as Leonora.

 

Not only that, but Harry's freckle after the explosion looked a lot like Turbo's sad and damaged example, and that meant that .....

Cappy apologizes to our hundreds of NES readers for the length of the above post, but not many people know that it is essential to get the physics and the detail right whenever flame front propagation is being discussed.

 

I hope you have enjoyed this learning experience.

 

[turboplanner]

2 hours ago, Captain said:

Cappy apologizes to our hundreds of NES readers for the length of the above post, but not many people know that it is essential to get the physics and the detail right whenever flame front propagation is being discussed.

 

I hope you have enjoyed this learning experience.

 

Turbo, on behalf of our avid NES readers for what must have been a very difficult AI array, and notes it is from the 2026 Year 9 Science exam, which hasn't happened yet. Turbo is going through it now and is torn between a promise of riches beyond his wildest dreams, to a family member, and a possibly a ride in the Corvette on Sandown., or saying nothing, thus saving a tidy sum.Cappy's ancestors had to use the same stick and carrot trick with Captain Jimmy Cook. With one particular chemical equation Jimmy only got 60%. " That's a PASS!!!!" said Jimmy's father Dock Cook, and Jimmy never forgot it.

When he was being prepared for the Cooking Pot on Kalakaua Beach  for touching up Princess Iolani, he yelled "but I discovered Hawaii for you, and paid you fifty bucks for it; that's two out of three, that's a PASS! 

[turboplanner]

Cappy would be going on and on about it for years, taking cheap shots at Black Tie events when half the table, who knew him when he got going would turn pale and ....................

[Captain]

2 hours ago, turboplanner said:

...... Cappy would be going on and on about it for years, taking cheap shots at Black Tie events when half the table, who knew him when he got going would turn pale and .....

..... grovel when he picked up the tab for all that knew him, for that is the type of guy Cappy is, and not many people know it.

 

On the other hand, Turbo expects Cappy to also cover the track day costs at Sandown, plus the hire of some other guy's 'Vette (it used to be Jason Moran's and the whistle from the bullet holes sounds just like the organ pipes on the Meteor (Avf'nref ..... at last) when it is doing a demo at Temora.

 

But when Tubb wanted his best mate to also cover the cost of some grid girls for a Sandown track day, Cappy drew the line and only .......

[bull]

2 hours ago, Captain said:

..... grovel when he picked up the tab for all that knew him, for that is the type of guy Cappy is, and not many people know it.

 

On the other hand, Turbo expects Cappy to also cover the track day costs at Sandown, plus the hire of some other guy's 'Vette (it used to be Jason Moran's and the whistle from the bullet holes sounds just like the organ pipes on the Meteor (Avf'nref ..... at last) when it is doing a demo at Temora.

 

But when Tubb wanted his best mate to also cover the cost of some grid girls for a Sandown track day, Cappy drew the line and only .......

........if Bull gets to pick em! now this upset Oncie and he............

[Captain]

48 minutes ago, bull said:

........if Bull gets to pick em! now this upset Oncie and he............

.... was worried that bull's obviously fragile health would have trouble handling the type of grid girls that Turbo had in mind, as he demanded that they must be the great great granddaughters of the grid girls back when he dominated Speedway in Australia. 

 

Cappy agreed with Turbs, that based on bull's admission/ boast that the hospital tea lady, from his 1st visit, gave him an effective workout.

 

Nevertheless bull insisted and Tubb pulled out a preprepared waiver form that bull .....