Gizmodo link
The videos are from American safety people - simply scary...
Just don't let it dry out...
Gizmodo link
The videos are from American safety people - simply scary...
As a professional scientist* I was disappointed by
The National Institute of Standards and Technology. Referring to Needle Moisture Content >100%.
I thought this terminology was limit to football managers.
Matt
*Professional meaning, I get paid for it, not claiming any particular ability.
Do trees acctually spontainously combust??
I think not.
but dry pine trees burn really well & the needles thrown onto a fire give off a lovely smell as the go up like iron filings.
And lets not forget my 2 years worth of payslips, all my petrol receipts, x3 boxes of rice crispies in the larder, some hairspray belonging to the
wife, a cuddly toy, a consumer unit and a 3 year old pack of rizzlas at the back of my nick nack drawer.
I wonder how well the 20 loaves of bread that you bought in a panic would burn? 
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Originally posted by matt_gsxrNeedle Moisture Content >100%.
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Originally posted by Ninehigh
I wonder how well the 20 loaves of bread that you bought in a panic would burn?
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Originally posted by Ninehigh
I wonder how well the 20 loaves of bread that you bought in a panic would burn?
why does this site say my gawker passwords have been compromised and i need to change, them, when i've never even heard of gawker?
Hang on..... you telling me that some American scientists have proven that DRY WOOD is actually combustible?
Who'd have thunk it?
Next they'll be telling me the SHARP KNIFE I use to cut the turkey could be dangerous in some way.
It's interesting to see how quickly your tree will go up tough when there's a blowtorch under it and a couple of gallons of petrol all over
it.
If trees went up like that in 3 seconds they'd be using it for rocket fuel...............
not that old chestnut again, but quite treemendous all the same.
would not happen if the tree was an ash.
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Originally posted by Ninehigh
I wonder how well the 20 loaves of bread that you bought in a panic would burn?
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Originally posted by 02GF74
not that old chestnut again, but quite treemendous all the same.
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Originally posted by blakep82
why does this site say my gawker passwords have been compromised and i need to change, them, when i've never even heard of gawker?
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Originally posted by MakeEverything
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Originally posted by blakep82
why does this site say my gawker passwords have been compromised and i need to change, them, when i've never even heard of gawker?
Yes, I gawk at half dressed birds that tottle around the town with their pushchairs showing everyone their knickers!
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Originally posted by Ninehigh
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Originally posted by MakeEverything
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Originally posted by blakep82
why does this site say my gawker passwords have been compromised and i need to change, them, when i've never even heard of gawker?
Yes, I gawk at half dressed birds that tottle around the town with their pushchairs showing everyone their knickers!
Didn't know pushchairs wore knickers..
Last year i threw our old xmas tree onto a sedate fire i was having in the back garden.. Jeez... in the space of about 5 seconds the flames shot up
about 10ft in the air
About 10 years ago I chopped down a live fir tree (obviously it wasn't live once I'd sawn through the trunk! 
)
I chopped off the branches and threw them onto a bonfire... I then had to check that I still had eyebrows... and that was with branches full of sap...
[Edited on 20/12/10 by David Jenkins]