have you ever herd of using a fier extinguisher as a rocket moter under water.

Have you ever heard of using a fire extinguisher as a rocket motor underwater?

My bold

For those of us who speak English.

Isn’t it amazing that non natural English speaking people can have a far better grasp of the language, than some of the embarrassments on here (or should I say “on hear”).

My thoughts exactly Felix.

I can make excuses for non-native speakers & the very young, but not for anyone over the age of about 10.

why do you guys have to act so young ang pick or comments about something somebody wrote or said? come on be grownups here.
someone asked a question and you have to be assholes. Did you ever think they were not paying attention to how they spelled something cause its not that important. they just want an answer.

My thoughts exactly Felix.

I can make excuses for non-native speakers & the very young, but not for anyone over the age of about 10.[/QUOTE]

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Originally posted by maczmom:
why do you guys have to act so young ang pick or comments about something somebody wrote or said? come on be grownups here.
someone asked a question and you have to be assholes. Did you ever think they were not paying attention to how they spelled something cause its not that important. they just want an answer.

Apart from it being just plain ignorant, you have to understand that you are judged on your posts. For the lack of pushing a button in order to spell check, you just advertise yourself as an uneducated, lazy embarrassment.

Posts don’t have to be a work of literal genius and we all make mistakes and typing errors. Just a little bit of effort prevents post from looking as if they have been written by a brain dead primate wear boxing gloves and smoking a crack pipe.

Remember, the world reads what you write.

I try never to launch personal insults as you have, but I will give a piece of advice:

“It is better to stay quite and be thought of as a fool, than to open you mouth and prove it.”

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Originally posted by Flying Felix:
....I try never to launch personal insults as you have, but I will give a piece of advice:

“It is better to stay quite and be thought of as a fool, than to open you mouth and prove it.”

*cough*
That should be "quiet" not "quite" & "your" not "you"

Other than those little typos, I totally agree with you. If a question is important enough to you for you to post it on a forum, it should be important enough that you want people to easily understand what you are asking. If you can't be bothered to make it easily understandable, then I (for one) can't be bothered enough to try to decypher it.

You still on with the English lessons fella?

Your point got across...

In response, I don't think it would do much underwater, other than just cause a bit of a smokescreen. Most fire extinguishers don't pack all that much kick and while you may get pushed, it would probably be more or less a nudge. Even out of water I don't think it would push you back sufficiently.
You could be referencing that clip of the Simpson's where Bart sits in the desk chair with an extinguisher and flies back across the warehouse he bought for a buck. Its a bit embellished.
Under water I would assume would yield much less.

But an interesting thought none the less.

There was an episode where they tested the rocket gas cannister, as seen in the Bond movie Die Another Day, where a gas tank has its valve broken off and propels itself through a wall.

This was confirmed, though they had some difficulty knocking off that valve.

They also tried using such a gas cannister to propel a speedboat. This did not work well - it only went a few metres.

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Originally posted by Lensman:

quote:

Originally posted by Flying Felix:
....I try never to launch personal insults as you have, but I will give a piece of advice:

“It is better to stay quite and be thought of as a fool, than to open you mouth and prove it.”

*cough*
That should be "quiet" not "quite" & "your" not "you"

Other than those little typos, I totally agree with you. If a question is important enough to you for you to post it on a forum, it should be important enough that you want people to easily understand what you are asking. If you can't be bothered to make it easily understandable, then I (for one) can't be bothered enough to try to decypher it.

Just proves that like I said we can all make mistakes

Yup, don't I know it - I make plenty myself.