AmazonBabe
Oct 3rd, 2002, 07:13:11 PM
The "S" word to be precise.
Now, I don't know how much of this is true or not, but I heard it this morning and had to share it with you guys. It's kinda funny.
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In the 1800's/early 1900's, ships were widely used to transport stuff from country to country, and one of the items that was widely transported was manure (maybe the said country receiving said item couldn't produce enough of it's own crap).
Anyways... the ships transporting this manure would store it way down in the bottom most deck of the ship. But due to the sea air and moisture that would acumulate down there, the manure would produce large amounts of methane into the lower deck. And when the sailor on night duty would go down to chec on the stores with his carosene lamp, well, the flame would ignite the methane and the whole ship would go up with a big bang.
Now for a long time this happened, and ppl couldn't figure out why these ships were blowing up.
Then someone did some research and discovered the methane produced by the manure in the lower hold, and figured it was the flame from the carosene lamps that would set the whole ship ablaze.
So, what they did to prevent the gasses from being trapped way down in the hold, the stored the manure at a higher deck with better ventilation so that the gases could escape and not blow up the ship.
To let sailors know where to store these boxes of manure, the initials for "Store High In Transit" were painted on the side of the large crates.
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You learn something new every day... whether it be true or false.
Believe... or not. :lol
Now, I don't know how much of this is true or not, but I heard it this morning and had to share it with you guys. It's kinda funny.
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In the 1800's/early 1900's, ships were widely used to transport stuff from country to country, and one of the items that was widely transported was manure (maybe the said country receiving said item couldn't produce enough of it's own crap).
Anyways... the ships transporting this manure would store it way down in the bottom most deck of the ship. But due to the sea air and moisture that would acumulate down there, the manure would produce large amounts of methane into the lower deck. And when the sailor on night duty would go down to chec on the stores with his carosene lamp, well, the flame would ignite the methane and the whole ship would go up with a big bang.
Now for a long time this happened, and ppl couldn't figure out why these ships were blowing up.
Then someone did some research and discovered the methane produced by the manure in the lower hold, and figured it was the flame from the carosene lamps that would set the whole ship ablaze.
So, what they did to prevent the gasses from being trapped way down in the hold, the stored the manure at a higher deck with better ventilation so that the gases could escape and not blow up the ship.
To let sailors know where to store these boxes of manure, the initials for "Store High In Transit" were painted on the side of the large crates.
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You learn something new every day... whether it be true or false.
Believe... or not. :lol