No more large and heavy tanks! Seen on TV

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Television is full of junk science like that, McGuiver, the A Team had really stupid stuff on it, Air Wolf with a supersonic helicopter, now Spare Air. Sadly, as someone with a second post grad degree in education, my first post grad is in Geology and then Geoscience, I have to tell you that the public is ignorant, they get their education from TV, Global Cooling followed by Global Warming and now it is just Climate Change as a catch all. More sound bite TV education, the Spare Air of Geoscience, Global Climate change that is, been changing for 4.8 billinon years, not likely to quit changing anytime soon, but, hurry, the sky is falling.

I am going for Spare Air Triples, that is the ticket.

Howabout when the A Team used hair dryers to inflate garbage bags tied to lawn chairs on extension cords to float them over the prison wall--yeah--happens all the time, just like swimming a mile underwater with a Spare Air or attacking an aircraft with a nail clipper but they darn sure keep taking mine.

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You have crushed all my childhood heroes. :(
 
I know!!! He called out MacGyver...I'm seriously distraught right now. I'm gonna have to go put in some DVD's from my MacGyver box set and rebuild the faith.
 
From what I remember, MacGyver wasn't all that bad. Sure some things were embellished but nowhere near as bad as that CSI show. I think that is easily one of the worst offenders when it comes to pulling physics/reality concepts out of somebody's rear end and writing a script about it.
 
I know!!! He called out MacGyver...I'm seriously distraught right now. I'm gonna have to go put in some DVD's from my MacGyver box set and rebuild the faith.
If you want to rebuild the faith, all you need is some duct tape or a welder and diamond plate steel. A couple of M16s that never shot anyone would help too- they sure did miss a lot for a bunch of crack commandos :confused:
 
They must have been the Nitrox compatible "spare air" they used as their oxygen tanks!

Because we all use Oxygen tanks when diving.
 
Gee, I wonder if they make bands and manifolds for double Spare Airs? Of course I'm holding out for the James Bond rebreathers... you know, those tiny pen sized things you stick in your mouth and dive forever with. Maybe Tobin at Deep Sea Supply can engineer one!


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