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- chaosmachine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+30nice pictures, but i think this site could use a little more advertising.
- jjallday, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15You can see a montage of the photos here: http://cellar.org/showthread.php?%20s=b5a22752534694c7efa8f42f6db979f5&t=10491
- metafore, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9"the waste paper basket fire has been controlled"
- crispycritter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6To answer the foam question. Yes. It it has CO2 in the foam. I know because I was stationed at Shaw AFB, SC. We have the exact same system in hanger 1200 and in 1614. They did a test on our system and it shut off. It was amazing because hanger 1200 is about 300 feet long, and about 1000 feet long, probably about 10 stories tall. The foam filled the hanger with foam about 15 feet tall and cover every square inch of the floor. I freaked out because it wasn't mentioned about a test. Foam was all over the flight line that day. It takes it quite a while for the foam to collapse. Later on about 2 weeks later the system went off again. Trapping people in side. They had fire fighters with oxygen bottles trying to rescue the people inside. The fire fighters were not able to reach them because the foam disoriented them. They had an airmen walk in with his BDU's on and an O2 system. He guided the firefighters in and back out with the trapped Sgt. We found out that the system went off because some one "bumped" into a switch. This airman admitted his mistake and pointed to which one he bumped into. There were no signs of it being pulled. The techs came out the next day and diagnosed it saying the switches are known to go bad and it was that one he bumped into.
- mattgilberg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6have you ever seen those rave clubs where the entire room fills up with soap bubbles? now all the airforce needs is adisco ball, some techno music, and some glowsticks .
- billdcat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Could you suffocate in foam? It'd be pretty scary to have that rise up around you if you could.
- ventro, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8American tax dollars hard at work!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8nice but ***** the submitters link for it's ***** house pop over ads
- billdcat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5True - I was thinking of those two guys on the platform. A dead end if it rose high enough. They'd have to go down the platform and find their way out of a hanger, on one breath. Freaky.
- burke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Yeah, I don't think I've ever seen an ad more obtrusive. Then again, I use adblock, and haven't seen an ad at all in about a week.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4i imagine you could just run throughit to get outside, still you might get lost in it
- burke, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I think it's pretty obvious this isn't foam, but rather alien xenoplasm. Come on people.
- PantherX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4How big of a fire are they planning on having there? Seriously if they NEEDED all that foam, the explosion would have vaporized three square miles.
- PacoDG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Would be very amusing though after the cleanup to find a few people passed out lying down next to walls cause they were running full speed through the foam in a panic thinking they were heading toward the exits.
- DisposableRob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Yeah, I think I was on that list. The e-mail had even more and better pictures, like the guy who left his truck's windows open.
- paxgamers, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Funny story, you would think there would be a manual shut-off.
- calabria, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3i doubt foam, which is really water thinned out by air, would have the mass to support a human. it would be quite the nightmare to end up at the bottom of that mess though, you'd drown. But i think a bigger threat would be the mental side of being trapped in foam, i'd freak out.
- PantherX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Yeah... that's what the article says, and also the page it links too. Thank you for pointing that out a third time.
- synaesthesia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I got this in the form of a fwd: email that must've hit every USAF email account on Earth... Pretty funny stuff
- ericesque, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3by my estimate, probably in the realm of 3 gallons.
- dwight0, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3when i used to go to foam parties at night clubs, i would inhale it and it would burn. one trick that works fine is to breathe through your shirt. i wonder what kind of foam this is though?
- guitarpro411, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3soo... is the fire out? i cant tell through all the foam
- poordavey, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3lmao. true that.
- kevnaca, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That's a lot of foam making power for a hanger that size. Seems to be a bit overkill even for larger fires. But I guess they want to be on the safe side just incase.
- kevnaca, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4I don't have a single pop up ad from the site with firefox.
- dasunst3r, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2No kidding... how much foam do they possibly have?!
- bg_27, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2hahahahahah! i dunno, stupid foams in the way cant see the fire
- ericnmu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1wow, enough ads on that site?
- RichPowers, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Whoa one of the coolest things I've seen on digg in a while.
Imagine having to clean that stuff up though! - mcpaige, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2how much foam do the have....omg.
- yahoofrom, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I thought they were testing the foam as weapon.
- anarchocap, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2your forgot the x and vicks
- Habemus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Come on people! How could you suffocate? The foam bubbles are 99% air. You would just breathe normally and end up with some soap in your mouth. If you held a handkerchief or shirttail over your mouth you wouldn't even taste the soap much.
- crispycritter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Page 3 shows 1200 in the test.
http://www.shaw.af.mil/ShawSpirit/2005/062405/News.pdf - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Now lets assume you tried to swim in it. Is that even possible? Wouldn't you just drop down to the floor and suffocate? Anyone?
- molecool, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Sponge Bob would have loved this :-)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4Two words:
I came. - kevnaca, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I would hold a huge party in there...fo realz!!
- zyklon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I digg this so hard. It's priceless.
- dirvish, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0military intelligence...
- beoswulf, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0This is really a top secret weapon. The Air Force plans to combat arab terrorism by giving the jihadists their first (bubble) bath. This is the MOABB, the mother of all bubble baths. An entire city can be cleaned out from one bubble bomb. All that's missing is the parachuting raver girls to complete our peace making strategy.
- poordavey, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1that. is awesome.
- molecool, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Yeah, I didn't know the Army was that much fun!!
- e3mw, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1This might just be the coolest thing I've ever seen on Digg.
- calabria, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1I hope the people asking if the fire went out aren't trying to be funny...maybe this is the proof that people digg and don't actually read anything they click on. but of course they're probably just idiots.
- chrismear, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Yup, always good to see such brilliant minds in charge of billions of dollars of weaponry.
- ericesque, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2I'm not sure there was a fire. I think the test was to see if the foam system functioned as it is supposed to.
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