BIGGEST GUNPOWDER EXPLOSION EVER!

1 metric ton of gunpowder (1000 kg, or 2204 pounds) stored in wooden 36 barrels) used to blow a building (a replica of the 1605 Westminster 'House of Parliament') to smithereens. The largest amount of gunpowder ever blown up on camera.

Clips taken from "The Gunpowder Plot: Exploding The Legend"
First aired on the ITV Network in 2005.

In this British television show it is investigated what would have happened if Guy Fawkes had succeeded in his attempt to assassinate King James.

They rebuild the Westminster House of Parliament as it was in 1605 A.D. using period equivalent methods wherever possible, including a massive 650 tonnes of concrete. The house was stocked with m to represent notable commoners, members and the king before the bomb was detonated

The power of the explosion, which surprised even gunpowder experts, was such that 7-foot-deep (2.1 m) solid concrete walls (made deliberately to replicate how archives suggest the walls in the old House of Lords were constructed) were reduced to rubble. Measuring devices placed in the chamber to calculate the force of the blast were destroyed by the blast itself, while the skull of the mannequin representing King James, which had been placed on a throne inside the chamber surrounded by courtiers, peers and bishops, was found a large distance away from the site. According to the findings of the programme, no one within 100 metres of the blast would have survived, while all the stained glass windows in Westminster Abbey would have been shattered, as would all windows within a large distance of the palace. The power of the explosion would have been heard at least five miles away, and seen from many more. Even if only half the gunpowder had gone off, everyone in the House of Lords and its environs would have been killed instantly. The blast would have been mostly directed upwards, raining debris in a 200 meter radius.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gunpowder_Plot:_Exploding_The_Legend

you can find the whole broadcast on YT:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9oDBXLjQcE

music by Richard Attree: http://www.attreemusic.com/

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- what do you think?

- KILLED IT!

[nicksynnz]

awesome

[Zaadbank]

poor test dummies :(