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...in the event of steel stocks running out it would be possible to make an unsinkable aircraft carrier using a material he called Pykrete, made of ice and wood pulp. The mixture could be molded into any shape and, with a slow melting rate, would be perfect for...
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The Post Chronicle
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BBC jääpaat uppus nagu TitanicPostimeesTema ideeks oli kasutada materjali, mis tema järgi kannab nimetust pykrete. See on puidu kiumassi ja jää segu. BBC tegi katse, milles segas 5000 liitrit ...
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Daily MailFrozen ship melts and sinks at seaMetroThe five-and-a-half ton boat was made out of a material called Pykrete - a mix of ice and wood pulp. Putting Geoffrey Pyke's theory to the test, ...Ice boat sinks at seaTelegraph.co.ukBoat made of ice melts and sinks in UKUPI.comBoat made of ice meltsDaily TelegraphYachting Monthlyall 19 news articles »
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...carrier using a material called pykrete, made of ice and wood pulp. . . Read how it all turned out in the Telegraph. More on Pykrete at Wikipedia. The BBC decided to put Pyke's theory to the test by mixing 5,000 litres of water with the hefty material hemp...
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Cronaca
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...the failure on a fault, which meant water poured into the vessel sooner than expected. He said: "I think we've proved that Pykrete works but it is unstable." Bang Goes The Theory is on BBC1 at 7.30pm on Wednesday evenings. The ice boat stunt will appear...
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The Telegraph
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Hielo con serrínInformaciónRecubierto con material aislante, el casco de pykrete, de 9 metros de grosor, debía ser refrigerado mediante una red de tuberías por las que circularía aire ...
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北纬网炫酷船只设计：拉链船与南瓜船榜上有名北纬网制造Pykrete船的两种材料——水和锯末——是大家所认为用于造船的最不可能的材料了。但是，当你将14%的锯末与木浆混合物和86%的水混在一起，结果就变成了一种强度超过冰的 ...
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www.MilitaryWarVideos.com The UK and USA were going to build massive aircraft carriers out of pykrete (a mix of ice and sawdust as hard as concrete) to launch B29S against Japan. This plan was amazing and for real. Visit http for more videos!
Pykrete is ice reinforced with sawdust. This is supposed to make it much stronger. In my sequal to my first book Hexult, Jacob wants to build a bridge across the chasm with a surface of ice. Would it be strong enough? Thought we should check first. www. hexult.com
Video of my 1/700 scale Habakkuk model aircraft carrier built from early Spring 2009 to late Summer 2010. Main hull made from a block of wood by a friend. All other parts from spare model kits. More information about Habakkuk and Pykrete can be found here: en.wikipedia.org and also this link: en.wikipedia.org
Is this thing really that tough?
Alaska Special - Is Pykrete really tougher than ice? Is it durable enough to make a boat out of? Can a V-shaped snowplow really split a car in two? Note: This was a special episode.
Alaska Special - Is Pykrete really tougher than ice? Is it durable enough to make a boat out of? Can a V-shaped snowplow really split a car in two? Note: This was a special episode.
Alaska Special - Is Pykrete really tougher than ice? Is it durable enough to make a boat out of? Can a V-shaped snowplow really split a car in two? Note: This was a special episode.
Alaska Special - Is Pykrete really tougher than ice? Is it durable enough to make a boat out of? Can a V-shaped snowplow really split a car in two? Note: This was a special episode.
Alaska Special - Is Pykrete really tougher than ice? Is it durable enough to make a boat out of? Can a V-shaped snowplow really split a car in two? Note: This was a special episode.
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Scientias.nlBizarre militaire innovatiesScientias.nlPykrete is een materiaal dat voor veertien procent uit zaagsel (of enig ander soort houtpulp) en 86 procent uit ijs bestaat. Project Habbakuk was een poging ...
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VNMedia10 loại vũ khí quái dị nhất thế giớiVNMediaÔng này đã đề nghị với Thủ tướng Winston Churchill về việc đóng một tàu sân bay lớn bằng Pykrete. Pyke gợi ý đặt tàu sân bay này ngay giữa Đại Tây Dương, ...
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10 loại vũ khí chiến tranh “quái đản” nhấtVietNamNetDo khan hiếm kim loại trong Thế chiến II, dự án Habbabuk là một nỗ lực tạo ra các mẫu hạm đủ vững chắc bằng nguyên liệu có tên là pykrete (kết hợp từ băng ...9 phát minh vũ khí chiến tranh “kỳ lạ” nhấtDân Tríall 2 news articles »
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The UK and USA were going to build massive aircraft carriers out of pykrete (a mix of ice and sawdust as hard as concrete) to launch B29S against Japan. kamikazes would have been useless against these huge ships.
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...or Habbakuk (spelling varies; see below) was a plan by the British in World War II to construct an aircraft carrier out of pykrete (a mixture of wood pulp and ice), for use against German U-boats in the mid-Atlantic, which was out of range of land-based planes...
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Andymatic
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This is about a science project for my school. I recreated several experiments from the bristish scientists of WWII. It's kinda interesting and I hope you enjoy it.
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...out be really handy somewhere sometime, like, say, on the surface of a Saturnian moon or something. *Maybe fabricating giant pykrete battleships to feed a future Los Angeles with potable water. “You shipped us water?” “No man, the water *is* the ship.” If...
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me and two mates made this video at our boarding house all this is with the same peice of pykete fresh out of the freezer please watch untill the end... *sniff* poor Godzilla, he was soo good to me.
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...Brigadier Wildman-Lushington and the inventor Geoffrey Pyke, who dreamt of creating giant unsinkable battleships made of Pykrete, a virtually indestructible compound of sawdust and ice. Foden also has an agreeably boyish way with interesting facts. So...
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Times Online
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My roommates and I test the power of Pykrete
Watch some clips of Jamie and Adam make a Pykrete boat out of newspaper and wood. Sorry about the static again
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...thin pykrete hull wouldn’t be strong enough for the job. So I started thinking about how to bolster it. If you break it down, pykrete is really a type of particleboard that uses water as the binding agent instead of glue. But it’s weak like particleboard,...
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Popular Mechanics
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ICE RUBE GOLDBERG - The Making of the machine, this is no midget, it's over 35 feet long and used over 4000 pounds of ice.
Ice Sculpture of the "Mouse Trap" game, they also made ice carvings for the ncaa 2009 final four in Detroit
Books put me too sleep, pretty much in general, but this book will keep my attention, because the stories are unbelievable and hilarious. For example its mentioned that there was a childrens cereal called "HITS" and was written in large letters on the front of the box.. But when Lined up with other boxes of its kind, it read "HITSHITSHITSHITS". Needless to say it was recalled.. Or the Gay Ken doll that was really an attempt to update ken to address the fashion of the time, got interpretted ...
Portaaviones de hielo. Aplicaciones del hielo, en este caso mezclado con residuos de madera. La Segunda Guerra mundial fue pródiga en el desarrollo e implementación de ideas absolutamente extravagantes. Dado que el ejército Alemán dominaba el Atlántico gracias a sus submarinos, las fuerzas aliadas comenzaron a pensar en la forma de tomar el control de los mares. Para ello, pusieron en marcha uno de los proyectos más descabellados de la historia: el desarrollo del Habbakuk, un portaaviones de más de 600 metros de largo, construido de hielo y pulpa de madera.
Further experiments with Pycrete
From SHIP OF ICE
The Allies in WWII tried to build a ship of made of ice and woodchips (the mixture is called Pykrete) to act as an aircraft carrier for the central North Atlantic. Here Mike tests the strength of the Pykkrete with a 10 guage shot gun
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...was made famous by wealthy industrialist and financier, Geoffrey Pike, Sir Winston Churchill was one of the earliest promoters of using Pykrete for building large ships in WWII. The hull for a giant Pykrete aircraft carrier would have been 40 feet thick or...
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Belmont Club
http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/2008/05/retro-science-fact.html
Shooting in a block of frozen mixture of water and paper. Next time i will try the same thing with pykrete.
A papercrete block made from one part cement and one part paper is subjected to a 5 minute propane flame. A wood 2x4 is given the same flame for comparison.
( ryanishungry.com ) has put together a nice video of Mikey Sklar and Wendy Tremayne making papercrete at their future hotel Green Acre in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.
Pykrete is dropped from a second story window.
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...I didn't make that up, that is an actual real conspiracy theory.) By the way, a type of ice mixed with wood chips called "pykrete" was invented during WWII with the idea of making North Atlantic aircraft carriers to deal with the U-Boats. You expect me to...
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Ace of Spades HQ
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about 20 wet tissues stacked up and frozen - go search for pykrete
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...experience, where art is appreciated for its phenomenal manifestation, not its performative superiority. But in the case of Pykrete, the point becomes moot-- Chuck Johnson is doing shit that you probably can't do. Johnson's sound art, like Maja Ratkje's, doesn't...
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Pitchfork
http://webapp.pitchforkmedia.com:9010/article/track_review/39960
Mike Fletcher makes up a batch of "Pykrete" a mixture of sawdust and water, when frozen, is said to be stronger than concrete so he shoots it with a rifle to see it that's true.
Pykrete is a mysterious substance. Some people say it has the strength of concrete, while some say it can float. It is also known to be resistant to flame. All we can say is some experimentation is needed.
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