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Greek Scientist Solves Mystery of Hindenburg Disaster
Greek Reporter ^ | May 6, 2024 | Tasos Kokkinidis

Posted on 09/30/2024 4:39:37 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: nickcarraway
In WWI, it took the intestines of 250,000 cows to build one zeppelin. In order to have enough cow intestines to build the ships, the German government banned the making of sausages.

German Zeppelins Were Made with Cow Intestines And It Led To Sausage Restrictions During WWI

21 posted on 09/30/2024 6:00:16 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: bosco24

“My problem is I don’t see how you can’t ground the frame and the skin together. When they attach the carrage to the blimp it is touching the outer skin and is bolted to the frame therefor, no capacitor.”

Instead of making false statements concerning the Hindenburg construction do some research first.


22 posted on 09/30/2024 6:12:01 PM PDT by TexasGator (l . . l / l / . l l . l).1 1 l l l l l " / . l l ( . 1 l)
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To: nickcarraway
#1, are we so short on current events that we have to resort to rehashing 3-year-old news?

History's Mysteries: Caltech Professor Helps Solve Hindenburg Disaster

May 17, 2021

Same professor, same theory, THREE YEARS AGO.


#2, He didn't solve JACK-SQUAT, he offers no contemporary evidence, it's just another theory, and IT WASN'T EVEN ORIGINAL.

Static charge, hydrogen caused Hindenburg disaster -report

By Reuters
March 4, 2013 11:30 PM GMT Updated 12 years ago

"...British aeronautical engineer Jem Stansfield and a team of researchers based in San Antonio, Texas, concluded that the airship ignited when the ground crew ran to take the landing ropes, effectively earthing the ship and causing a spark, the newspaper said on its website on Monday...."


Looks to me more like plagiarism than a "solving."

23 posted on 09/30/2024 6:17:17 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: TexasGator

“Instead of making false statements concerning the Hindenburg construction do some research first.”

Yes sir, will do.

Sir, the research is complete.

The carrage (made of dualium) was rested on the outer skin (aluminum paint) and was bolted (Steel) to the frame therefor the two were electrically connected and could not form a capacitor.


24 posted on 09/30/2024 6:22:07 PM PDT by bosco24
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To: bosco24

Link please


25 posted on 09/30/2024 6:32:35 PM PDT by TexasGator (l . . l / l / . l l . l).1 1 l l l l l " / . l l ( . 1 l)
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To: TexasGator

Bite me!


26 posted on 09/30/2024 6:33:53 PM PDT by bosco24
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To: SpaceBar

He is theorizing that the metal frame and the skin formed a giant capacitor and that the huge charge stored in that capacitor was causing sparks all over the place. One spark found a hydrogen leak at the aft.


27 posted on 09/30/2024 6:52:33 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (May the soy boys, feminazis, and alphabet weirdos choke on the toxic fumes of our masculinity)
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28 posted on 09/30/2024 6:53:05 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: nickcarraway

He deserves only derision for making claims he has merely validated of others prior.

I’m not looking it up, but this claim was demonstrated YEARS ago.

He ‘solved’ nothing.


29 posted on 09/30/2024 7:16:25 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: bosco24

Where did you get your engineering degree?


30 posted on 09/30/2024 7:18:08 PM PDT by TexasGator (l . . l / l / . l l . l).1 1 l l l l l " / . l l ( . 1 l)
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To: logi_cal869

“I’m not looking it up, but this claim was demonstrated YEARS ago.”

lol!


31 posted on 09/30/2024 7:19:20 PM PDT by TexasGator (l . . l / l / . l l . l).1 1 l l l l l " / . l l ( . 1 l)
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Alright, DA. Mr Funnyman.

I looked it up: This is recycled news. In fact, the article is a copy/paste repost from 2022

https://greekreporter.com/2022/04/17/greek-scientist-solves-mystery-of-hindenburg-disaster/

But it’s worse than that: The hyperlink under his name at the article below dates to the ORIGINAL article from 2022, but Greek Reporter autodirects to the new 2024 post

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/TheHindenburg

Worse still, this may be the show which showcased information I’d read prior (but that I’m also not expending any more time on) but it was years prior where another scientist analyzed the doping structure the Germans used and found that it would hold a charge. To geeks, the concept is rather “Duh,” as was the PBS show

https://www.edn.com/a-new-look-at-the-design-of-the-hindenburg

The PBS show broadcast May 19, 2021, almost a year prior to the 2022 Greek Reporter article which, ironically, references this PBS article.

Yes, Konstantinos Giapis was the one who solved it, but - as I stated - YEARS ago.

The Greek Reporter post is recycled news and they hide the only reference to the earlier news under a hyperlink, failing to even cite the air date of the PBS documentary, let alone its name. Almost 100% copy/pasted.

Clickbait.

Tasos Kokkinidis & Greek Reporter have some ‘spaining to do.


32 posted on 09/30/2024 8:05:45 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: logi_cal869

“But it’s worse than that: The hyperlink under his name at the article below dates to the ORIGINAL article from 2022, but Greek Reporter autodirects to the new 2024 post”

How is that worse? It merely means that his work was earlier.


33 posted on 09/30/2024 8:23:03 PM PDT by TexasGator (l . . l / l / . l l . l).1 1 l l l l l " / . l l ( . 1 l)
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To: SpaceBar; SkyDancer
Pure hydrogen burns, it only explodes when mixed with the proper (2:1) stoichiometric ratio with oxygen.

You are mostly correct. It can explode either side of the perfect stoichimetric ratio but not with complete reaction of the hydrogen and oxygen depending on what side of the ratio you are on. Think fuel air bombs. It is not stochimetric but is devastating. It will still be a hell of an explosion.

The Hindenburg did not explode, it simply burned as the hydrogen burned after one of the bladders started the process from a probably leak and then a combustion source that is unknown. If it had truly exploded it would have dropped like a rock and none would have survived. The shock wave would have killed them anyway in a true explosion. Out of 97, 35 perished. The reason is the cabin was suspended below the dirigible and as the hydrogen burned most the flames were directed upward as the passenger compartment area rather slowly descended.

Odd point of history is that Germany wanted to use Helium instead of Hydrogen. The USA had virtually all the Helium production at that time. Because Germany was then prewar Nazi, we would not sell it to them and that was a good decision.

I would love to fly across the Atlantic in a dirigible using Helium, hydrogen no thank you. It was the height of luxury if flying. The ocean liner ships were even more luxurious as they had no weight penalties and could bring on board anything a guest would want. I would be willing to pay a lot of bucks for a flight like this. The Pan Am Clipper Ships did start flying the Atlantic in 1939. You had to be wealthy to do this. Luxury for passengers is what they did. You did not eat from a seat back table. You sat at a table like in a fine restaurant and served fine food.

34 posted on 09/30/2024 8:27:28 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist ,MAGA)
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To: logi_cal869

“Worse still, this may be the show which showcased information I’d read prior (but that I’m also not expending any more time on) but it was years prior where another scientist analyzed the doping structure the Germans used and found that it would hold a charge. To geeks, the concept is rather “Duh,” as was the PBS show”

Duh. The Germans AND Americans all knew it would hold a charge in 1937. The new work is how the charge could build up.


35 posted on 09/30/2024 8:28:10 PM PDT by TexasGator (l . . l / l / . l l . l).1 1 l l l l l " / . l l ( . 1 l)
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To: nickcarraway
Did somebody say "Greek scientist?"

Who's the go-to Greek scientist?


36 posted on 09/30/2024 8:31:55 PM PDT by x
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To: nickcarraway
Did somebody say "Greek scientist?"

Who's the go-to Greek scientist?


37 posted on 09/30/2024 8:31:55 PM PDT by x
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To: logi_cal869

“Yes, Konstantinos Giapis was the one who solved it, but - as I stated - YEARS ago.”

You never stated that.


38 posted on 09/30/2024 8:45:57 PM PDT by TexasGator (l . . l / l / . l l . l).1 1 l l l l l " / . l l ( . 1 l)
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To: TexasGator
A.A. Hoehling connect the dots very convincingly in his 1962 book "Who Destroyed the Hindenburg?"
39 posted on 09/30/2024 9:02:27 PM PDT by TomEd (Her şey hazır! Buyrun, şölene!)
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To: TexasGator
Yes, I did,


40 posted on 09/30/2024 10:13:36 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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