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    #21
    Nobody has considered that a ghost might have done it, using a blast of his supernatural ectoplasm energy.

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      #22
      Originally posted by wobbegong View Post
      Birdstrike.
      That's one helluva bird.

      Heard someone on R4 this morning speculating it was falling ice from a passenger jet, which struck the blade and subsequently melted, leaving no trace. Apparently this happens a lot in cold weather. Be careful out there.

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        #23
        I reckon Global Warming melted the blades.

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          #24
          Originally posted by realityhack View Post
          That's one helluva bird.

          Heard someone on R4 this morning speculating it was falling ice from a passenger jet, which struck the blade and subsequently melted, leaving no trace. Apparently this happens a lot in cold weather. Be careful out there.
          Blue Ice
          "Being nice costs nothing and sometimes gets you extra bacon" - Pondlife.

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            #25
            These things do break

            http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=c3FZtm...eature=related

            http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=QL-cRu...eature=related

            and catch fire

            http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4N4HQv...eature=related
            Last edited by KentPhilip; 8 January 2009, 16:35.

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              #26
              I bet the UFO supporters are the same people sending texts to 'Most Haunted Live'...
              Older and ...well, just older!!

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                #27
                Something obviously hit the fan.

                My guess is a Giant Flying Turd.
                Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

                C.S. Lewis

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                  #28
                  Originally posted by KentPhilip View Post

                  Fook me, thats just like some of my code.
                  The Mods stole my post count!

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                    #29
                    Someone threw a Ginster's pie at it
                    If you think my attitude stinks, you should smell my fingers.

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                      #30
                      I've just had a quick butchers at a turbine safety and amongst what's discussed are vibration sensors.

                      One of the classical, and most simple safety devices in a wind turbine is the vibration sensor in the image above, which was first installed in the Gedser wind turbine. It simply consists of a ball resting on a ring. The ball is connected to a switch through a chain. If the turbine starts shaking, the ball will fall off the ring and switch the turbine off.
                      http://www.windpower.org/en/tour/wtrb/safety.htm
                      It's just a ball sitting in a socket. Got to love that simplicity

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