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02-26-2007, 06:02 AM
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| CurranTM : Carrot Fiber Boats? From Scuttlebutt this morning: AC 32 Challenger Commission: Carrot Fibre Yachts? Address:http://www.challengercommission.com/...re-yachts.html Changed:12:17 PM on Saturday, February 24, 2007  |
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02-26-2007, 04:29 PM
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| What about them damn wabbits? With a conversion rate of 2.2 lbs for a 2 oz fishing rod, a 10,000 pound boat would need 176,000 lbs of carrots. Can they grow that much and it still be a widespread, practical sort of thing? Sam |
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02-28-2007, 04:48 PM
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| Apparently it's for real !! Some fellow in Fife, Scotland has made a fiber, as he claims: " ....that is tougher ( More resiliant) than Carbon Fiber." - and has made fishing poles with the stuff. - It's a month before the 1 / April - so maybe it's for real ?! |
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02-28-2007, 09:51 PM
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| A quick google suggests you should get 50 to 70 tons per acre of carrots - so you should get about 1.5 tons of 'boat' per acre. I got 5 acres - so I'm gonna grow me a 40 footer!  hope they come in colours other than orange though....
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