[HN Gopher] Tagging Along with Italy's Unexploded Bomb-Hunters
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Tagging Along with Italy's Unexploded Bomb-Hunters
Author : CapitalistCartr
Score : 22 points
Date : 2022-06-20 14:52 UTC (1 days ago)
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| marvinvz wrote:
| Those old bombs are still around in Germany (unsurprisingly).
| This was a controlled explosion of one in munich 2012:
| https://youtu.be/idF3Nq11BcM
| Someone wrote:
| There also still are many, many unexploded projectiles dating
| back to World War One.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_Rouge:
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| _"Each year, several tons of unexploded shells are recovered.
| According to the Securite Civile agency in charge, at the
| current rate 300 to 700 more years will be needed to clean the
| area completely. Some experiments conducted in 2005-06
| discovered up to 300 shells per hectare (120 per acre) in the
| top 15 cm (6 inches) of soil in the worst areas."_
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_harvest:
|
| _"The iron harvest (French: recolte de fer) is the annual
| "harvest" of unexploded ordnance, barbed wire, shrapnel,
| bullets and congruent trench supports collected by Belgian and
| French farmers after ploughing their fields. The harvest
| generally applies to the material from the First World War,
| which is still found in large quantities across the former
| Western Front."_
|
| These also fairly frequently include unexplored poison gas
| shells.
|
| Belgium als still has a few big mines with thousands of
| kilograms of explosives near Messines that may one day go boom.
| One of them did in 1955 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mines_in
| _the_Battle_of_Messine...)
| MandieD wrote:
| There's a discovery of an unexploded WW2 bomb in and around
| Nuremberg at least every year or so, followed immediately by
| the evacuation of the neighborhood around it before the experts
| come in to defuse it (hopefully not have to explode it).
|
| This is particularly exciting when they find one near a major
| train station, like in Nuremberg about six or seven years ago,
| especially midday or afternoon...
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| They'll be finding those things for the rest of my _toddler's_
| life.
| latchkey wrote:
| Here we are today, with the Russia / Ukraine conflict and all of
| the leftover stuff from that which is being created on a daily
| basis, sigh.
| [deleted]
| rdtennent wrote:
| The title suggests that it's the bomb-hunters that are
| unexploded. The title should refer to unexploded-bomb hunters;
| that is, the unexploded refers to bombs, not hunters.
| globalise83 wrote:
| The bomb-hunters that the author tags along with are, so far,
| unexploded. Both meanings work nicely in this context.
| smegsicle wrote:
| the use of an en-dash rather than a regular hyphen implies that
| these unexploded hunters are in particular looking for
| unexploded bombs
|
| see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En-
| dash#Attributive_compounds
| goatcode wrote:
| Bless you for being a rare person who understands the
| semantics of such things. For too long passenger carrying
| airplanes has struggled under such a weight.
| goatcode wrote:
| I'd imagine tagging along with the exploded ones to be either
| dull or impossible.
| pnemonic wrote:
| Obligatory
|
| https://xkcd.com/37/
| Arrath wrote:
| > The title suggests that it's the bomb-hunters that are
| unexploded.
|
| They're the good bomb-hunters, then.
| nwiswell wrote:
| Or just bad at the hunting part.
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