Its nearly Bonfire night - what will you be doing?

[melthebell 862]

In a science programme I saw they recreated the same amount of gunpowder. It was in the cellars remember, the blast would have levelled most of the area and certainly killed the king and many more people.

like a modern day airbomb then?

[Rivelin6 11]

In a science programme I saw they recreated the same amount of gunpowder. It was in the cellars remember, the blast would have levelled most of the area and certainly killed the king and many more people.

If only!

[staceyx 10]

it my 21ST bday yey!!

[Rivelin6 11]

it my 21ST bday yey!!

My partner's 41st and my 40 + on the 7th! lol

[artisan 10]

Dont say it cant be done.

These guys managed a similar thing

 

I think those pictures must be accentuated somehow.

If I was on a desk allowing folk on a flight, non of those would pass.

To a man they look as if they are on a trip of some kind, and I dont mean an accompanied walk from the local home.

[artisan 10]

like a modern day airbomb then?

 

An airbomb is not the same thing.

It explodes, and sprays petrol vapour over the entire area, then milliseconds later an incendiary ignites, sets off the petrol vapour, and all the oxygen is burned, everywhere.

It would have destroyed London at that time completely, and every living creature in the area woud have died of either burns or suffocation.

 

Gunpowder does not require oxygen to burn, it creates its own from the chemicals that compose it.

[staceyx 10]

my brothers on the 6th

[Tatman 10]

I think those pictures must be accentuated somehow.

If I was on a desk allowing folk on a flight, non of those would pass.

To a man they look as if they are on a trip of some kind, and I dont mean an accompanied walk from the local home.

 

Just my thought.

[spindrift 10]

It would have destroyed London at that time completely, and every living creature in the area woud have died of either burns or suffocation.

 

About a quarter of a mile destroyed.

[artisan 10]

About a quarter of a mile destroyed.

 

How big was London at Guy Fawkes' time?

The commercial and government centre would not be much bigger than that.

[artisan 10]

my brothers on the 6th

 

You what?

Doucement baby.

[*Peaches* 10]

I'll be dosed up on pain killers feeling sorry for myself