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Post by silverdragon on Feb 25, 2013 9:17:04 GMT
d**k(UK Short for Richard) Strawbridge, a good honest no messing engineer from the west country, has a new show on Channel 5 (UK) at the moment, Beat the Ancestors, where they will try and re-create legendary items of military equipment.... Well worth a watch.... What is the Myth?... well, last night, it was a nine-barrelled cannon.... I am providing the link here as a good source of myth testing outside the Mythbusters workshop that has some nice big bangs in it at various places..... If you can get C5, enjoy..... www.channel5.com/shows/beat-the-ancestors |
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Post by privatepaddy on Feb 25, 2013 10:46:02 GMT
Unfortunately the video is not available in my area. I saw a multiple barrel weapon in a then local park back in the seventies, if memory serves me correctly it was part of a monument of Australia's (colonial days) involvement in the Boer War. It may have been a "Nordenfelt gun" capable of around 1000 rounds per minute en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordenfelt_gun |
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Post by GTCGreg on Feb 25, 2013 15:07:32 GMT
The link works but the video won't play.
When you click on the link to play the episode it says "The video you are trying to watch can not be viewed from your current country or location."
I'm in the upper Midwest USA. Guess I'll have to move to GB.
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Post by Cybermortis on Feb 25, 2013 16:41:29 GMT
Makes a nice change, usually its those of us in Europe who get that message...
This type of weapon usually worked well, but was hard to move, expensive, could be dangerous - both because the more barrels you have the greater the chances of one of them failing and because you could get a sympathetic discharge where sparks from one touch hole would set off the charges in the barrels next to it. Last of all such weapons took several minutes to reload, as you had to load each barrel separately. (These problems held both for 'artillery' weapons and multi-barrelled small arms until the development of the self-contained cartridge).
In practice you were better off using grapeshot (or similar types of munition) in a conventional cannon. They could cause just as much damage, were faster to reload and could also be used to fire solid shot at long range - that is outside the range at which muskets were effective.
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Post by privatepaddy on Feb 26, 2013 2:19:30 GMT
a trailer shows a multiple barrel weapon
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Post by silverdragon on Feb 26, 2013 7:19:14 GMT
If You live in USA, get Foxy-Proxy if you have Firefox, and set your IP as Europe... If not Firefox, I believe there is a site called "Hide-my-ass" www.hidemyass.com/ that may be of help... this can also be used to change your IP to a european IP..... It is quite legal. Basic explanation, All you are doing is using a freely available remote sever as a Firewall and denying any personal information to be released from your own address. {Thank you for the clarification there - CM} |
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Post by mrfatso on Mar 4, 2013 6:47:02 GMT
Unfortunately the video is not available in my area. I saw a multiple barrel weapon in a then local park back in the seventies, if memory serves me correctly it was part of a monument of Australia's (colonial days) involvement in the Boer War. It may have been a "Nordenfelt gun" capable of around 1000 rounds per minute en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordenfelt_gun It was the medieval precursor to that weapon, a Ribaldiquin, sometimes called an organ gun that they were reconstructing rather than a Nordenfelt gun.(easy for me to know I could watch the program, unlike privatepaddy). en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RibauldequinMost of the BBCiplayer, Demand5 (for Channel5 the case in point), are region locked to stop non TV licence payers watching them, unless they use proxies. |
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Post by silverdragon on Mar 4, 2013 9:00:18 GMT
Mr F, Thanks, I couldnt make sense of what they were saying, and couldnt spell that for toffee, so your post has explained what the name was... it sounded like "revolving-tin" to my ears when I watched the program, I have not heard of the weapon before, so didnt know the name....
As for the use of Proxies, I must state, I Believe its legal to use them to get round region locked video...
If anyone knows better?...
Or should I say I dont know of any laws being broken at this time, I have checked, and I cant find anything, I will of course edit this, and the post I made earlier, if I find out I am wrong...........
Also as its Foxy-Proxy, and part of Firefox, I believe if use of Proxy was illegal, Mozilla would have said something by now and stopped us using proxy servers....
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Post by mrfatso on Mar 4, 2013 11:30:59 GMT
Your welcome, though I spelt it wrong myself.
I don`t think it is illegal to do, just that the TV companies here don`t want to make it easy for people to do it, not everyone is aware of the idea of proxy servers.
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Post by mrfatso on Mar 4, 2013 13:42:00 GMT
Having said that I just checked BBCiplayers Terms of Use,
Which includes the lines;
1. By using BBC iPlayer you agree to be legally bound by these Terms, which shall take effect immediately on your first use of BBC iPlayer. If you do not agree to be legally bound by all the following terms please do not access and/or use BBC iPlayer.
And
2. All BBC Content is selected, supplied and updated at the BBC's sole discretion.
3. Downloadable BBC Content is available for download within the UK only.
12. You agree:
not to download or attempt to download the BBC Content if you are outside the UK
Channel5 says in its terms;
2. This service may only be used by UK residents, upon computers located within the UK. Users are responsible for ensuring that they have the correct equipment with the correct technical specifications to access the service; and shall be responsible for their own costs of accessing the internet and the services provided by Channel 5. Where Content is available for a charge, payment must be received by Channel 5 in full before it may be accessed.
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Post by mrfatso on Mar 12, 2013 11:44:27 GMT
Had anyone else in the UK noticed that Channel 5 have decided to stop the current run of the seires after 2 episodes, without confirmation of when the next time they will show it.
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Post by bioLarzen on Apr 1, 2013 11:49:38 GMT
d**k Strawbridge, a good honest no messing engineer from the west country Haha, good old Colonel Strawbridge, of Scrapheap Challenge, by far the best "engineering" show idea of all time IMHO (no matter that oftentimes it wasn't nearly as spontaneous as it was shown and quite some of the parts "miraculously" found in the scrapyard were intentionally put there for the show). As far as I can rememberm, he wasn't really an engineer, but some king of soldier, was he? But still, he's a great fellow. bio |
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Post by bioLarzen on Apr 1, 2013 11:52:36 GMT
The link works but the video won't play. When you click on the link to play the episode it says "The video you are trying to watch can not be viewed from your current country or location." I'm in the upper Midwest USA. Guess I'll have to move to GB. Never understood this thing. Here in Europe, i can't watch a lot of American videos. What's the point? bio |
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Post by mrfatso on Apr 3, 2013 6:57:00 GMT
He was by the end of his career a Lt-Colonel in the Royal Signal Corps, an Engineer yes, but like most British Army regiments they would have also have been expected to be able fight as infantrymen. ( I am not sure if the armoured regiments go straight to their training in armoured warfare.)
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Post by silverdragon on Apr 3, 2013 7:39:46 GMT
Axe of show, this from "Elsewhere" and UN-substantiated for now, but questions have been asked if they are not indeed giving a "How to" on how to build weapons of mass incompetence to "The masses"......
Apparently "Appalled of Chichester" has phoned in a complaint.
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Post by mrfatso on Apr 3, 2013 11:20:48 GMT
Not that they couldn`t do that on the internet or in the library, heck join the sealed Knot or the Medieval Siege Society they have that kind of knowledge if it came to that.
Typical.
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Post by Lex Of Sydney Australia on Sept 19, 2013 2:03:23 GMT
You've got to be kidding me! The *CENSORED* Twits! I can't believe they're having a go at them for that, when any idiot (or for that matter terrorist) can look up the plains on how to build an atomic bomb online in the Library of Congress. & for the record I'm NOT encouraging ANYONE to go & see if they can do so just for the Hades of it.
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Post by Cybermortis on Sept 19, 2013 12:34:00 GMT
You've got to be kidding me! The *CENSORED* Twits! I can't believe they're having a go at them for that, when any idiot (or for that matter terrorist) can look up the plains on how to build an atomic bomb online in the Library of Congress. & for the record I'm NOT encouraging ANYONE to go & see if they can do so just for the Hades of it. You can easily find the basic ideas, but not some of the more technical information - which is still (understandably) classified. Nor does such information include how to make some of the components, or for that matter tell you how to get your hands on weapons grade nuclear material. |
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Post by Lex Of Sydney Australia on Sept 19, 2013 12:51:11 GMT
You've got to be kidding me! The *CENSORED* Twits! I can't believe they're having a go at them for that, when any idiot (or for that matter terrorist) can look up the plains on how to build an atomic bomb online in the Library of Congress. & for the record I'm NOT encouraging ANYONE to go & see if they can do so just for the Hades of it. You can easily find the basic ideas, but not some of the more technical information - which is still (understandably) classified. Nor does such information include how to make some of the components, or for that matter tell you how to get your hands on weapons grade nuclear material. What I was trying to say is that if someone is REALLY determined to create a weapon of mass destruction, then they'll find a way to do so regardless. If you wanted to then you could easily find plains for weapons of all sorts & of varying degrees of destructive power online. (Some of the crazy *BLEEP* you learn being a coppers kid eh  ) So banning a program that's trying to be educational on the grounds that it might give someone 'ideas' is stupid. By that logic all schools should be shut down & we should return back to living in the Stone Age. |
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Post by the light works on Sept 19, 2013 14:46:02 GMT
You can easily find the basic ideas, but not some of the more technical information - which is still (understandably) classified. Nor does such information include how to make some of the components, or for that matter tell you how to get your hands on weapons grade nuclear material. What I was trying to say is that if someone is REALLY determined to create a weapon of mass destruction, then they'll find a way to do so regardless. If you wanted to then you could easily find plains for weapons of all sorts & of varying degrees of destructive power online. (Some of the crazy *BLEEP* you learn being a coppers kid eh ) So banning a program that's trying to be educational on the grounds that it might give someone 'ideas' is stupid. By that logic all schools should be shut down & we should return back to living in the Stone Age. somebody might throw a stone at somebody.  |
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) So banning a program that's trying to be educational on the grounds that it might give someone 'ideas' is stupid. By that logic all schools should be shut down & we should return back to living in the Stone Age.
