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PostPosted: Sat Sep 17, 2016 11:09 am 
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If so, then have you or other(s) experienced real life ammo explosion(s) or heat exhaustion or heat stroke because of increased heat?


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PostPosted: Sat Sep 17, 2016 7:50 pm 
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I served 20 years in the US Navy as a nuclear engineer. Most of my career was spent in the engineering spaces of aircraft carriers. The hottest I've ever seen on a thermometer down there was 160F; that was in the main feed booster pump flats aboard Big E, which was a notorious steam bath of a ship. On a Nimitz class, Feed Control Room temps in the Persian Gulf could easily hit 120F or even 130F. So yeah, I am very familiar with what heat can do to unprepared people.

Conversely, I experienced -50F during an Arctic Circle crossing up by Norway; so cold that you can actually feel your life leaving your body.

Needless to say, because of these experiences, I have different definitions and tolerances of "hot" and "cold" than most people.

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PostPosted: Mon Sep 19, 2016 2:42 am 
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I was born in northern Minnesota...then grew up in Kansas and moved back to Minnesota as a (barely) adult.

One year the winter hit -80 wind chill. Cars were snow banks. Actual temperatures were something like -40.

I moved to Kansas that spring. That summer we hit 100 degrees every day for three months straight. At least one of those days it was 120.

I remember because...that was an effective temperature change of 200 degrees in a few months.

That's just sorta memorable...

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 18, 2016 12:10 pm 
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Shades of Grey, were you provided with protective clothing when encountering that 160 degrees F temperature? if not, then how did you survive that encounter?

also, i heard that US Armed Forces is now beginning to get a space fleet and way more aerospace fighters and no more tanks and no more wet Navy battleships, so there can be adequate defense against hostile aggressors in space


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PostPosted: Mon Nov 21, 2016 3:41 am 
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iLike, if you are going to troll then please stop using half-measures. At present, you are little more than dreadfully boring.

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