This time it's mobile phones and petrol stations. When you fill up you're told to turn off your phone for safety. But is it simply because they can mess up the metering systems on the pumps or can they really cause an explosion. Here is an extract from a posting on a list I'm on:
"I get all my science information from "Brainiac" on Sky one. They doused the inside of a caravan with *a lot* of petrol and left a mobile phone inside. When they rang it nothing happened. So they put in a dozen mobiles and tried again. Still Nothing.
So, they ran a long copper wire to a place where they got a bloke to move about a bit in a nylon shell suit, who then touched the wire and blew up the caravan in a most satisfyingly spectacular manner.
In my opinion, therefore, mobile phones are far less dangerous than nylon clothing (that's true on *so* many levels, isn't it?). However, I've never seen a warning about nylon underpants at a petrol station."
Makes you think. Doesn't it. About the dangers of nylon clothes.
a man in a shell suit in a caravan. did they film it in a holiday camp in newcastle ?
Was it the nylon or the moustache which caused the static ?
Posted by: funkypancake at January 8, 2004 08:38 AM