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They staged this as an experiment.

I have one question------

Why do they allow laptops on planes--but not shampoo??


Makes you want to go------------HHHMMMM??? :blink: :grade11math: :o

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Click on the-- like an x --on the flashplayer to go full screen :eek:

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wow freaky stuff. I wonder why the laptop did not completely melt though, if the fire was that hot.

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Red Squirrel wrote: wow freaky stuff. I wonder why the laptop did not completely melt though, if the fire was that hot.
Might have eventually melted. If you noticed near the end of the video the middle of the laptop looked like it melted into itself. Great video, kind of shocking.

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thats a lil insane :unsure:

we have 2 laptops here ...
ones on all the time ..batterie is in it but its pluged into the wall
and the other has magor overheating problems :blink:

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I sent the link to the Department of Homeland Security :handintest:

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Triple6_wild wrote:
and the other has magor overheating problems :blink:
We intentionally created conditions in which the Li-ON battery pack would explode inside a generic portable. The results are dramatic. There are numerous conditions where these fires can occur in real life.

Faulty battery packs (driving the recalls), faulty protection circuits inside the PC,


exposure to excessive heat, :awesome:

and blunt force are some of the major ways that this could happen to you.

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Considering they're banning silly things on planes, I just hope laptops are included since think they're more dangerous then water bottles and nail clippers. LOL

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Banning water bottles? That's not silly. How else are they going to charge you $10 for a bottle of aquafina? :P

The video may be a little over dramatic in inducing the circumstances to cause a battery fire. But it does kinda put into perspective the battery recall. It may be 1 in a million that blow up. But if you are using the thing when it does, you are totally screwed.

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My thought--and the reason I sent the link in to Big Brother was--

If these guys could rig it to do that, why couldn't a terrorist?

I mean, that one moron had matches in his shoes :P


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yeah I could easily see a terrorist rigging it.

Now that explosion alone would not be enough to cause a big danger to the plane or people in it (though it still could injure a few), but it would cause drama and scarce on a plane. And combined with other factors, like wrapping it in some more explosive material, could be lethal. What gets me is the fact that those batteries explode for so long. So if you could pressurize it and make it all happen at once, yeah,could be quite deadly.

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Or if it was in overhead storage?

I don't know if 1000 degrees f is hot enough to melt aluminum

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Basic Information

Name: Aluminum
Symbol: Al
Atomic Number: 13
Atomic Mass: 26.981539 amu
Melting Point: 660.37 °C (933.52 K, 1220.666 °F) <------ Close, but nope
Boiling Point: 2467.0 °C (2740.15 K, 4472.6 °F)
Number of Protons/Electrons: 13
Number of Neutrons: 14
Classification: Other Metals
Crystal Structure: Cubic
Density @ 293 K: 2.702 g/cm3
Color: Silver
British Spelling: Aluminium
IUPAC Spelling: Aluminium

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Well

I think in the film the guy said his heat meter was maxed at 1000 F

So, who knows

I wouldn't want to be on a plane with that thing going off in an overhead--I know that!

LOL :eek:

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