View Full Version : January 25 is Bubble Wrap® Appreciation Day!
reible
01-25-2010, 06:25 PM
http://www.sealedair.com/products/protective/bubble/funstuff/bubblewrap_appreciation_day.html
Hard to believe it has been with us since 1960!
Anyway you still have time to finish your day with a bang!
Ed
tom_k/mo
01-25-2010, 06:39 PM
In honor of the day, have a sheet of Virtual Bubble Wrap (http://takuhn.homeip.net/Games/bubblewrap.swf) on me...
Ed in Tampa
01-25-2010, 07:29 PM
Dude! I love the maniac mode!
foxtrapper
01-26-2010, 06:55 AM
My favorite bubble-wrap memories are of wraping up an aircraft carrier for bomb testing.
jdramsey
01-26-2010, 02:35 PM
In honor of the day, have a sheet of Virtual Bubble Wrap (http://takuhn.homeip.net/Games/bubblewrap.swf) on me...
I love it!!!!
jdramsey
01-26-2010, 02:35 PM
My favorite bubble-wrap memories are of wraping up an aircraft carrier for bomb testing.
An aircraft carrier?? OK, what's the story...please?
honeywell
01-27-2010, 03:21 AM
My favorite bubble-wrap memories are of wraping up an aircraft carrier for bomb testing.
I was on a carrier and I don't remember that??
foxtrapper
01-27-2010, 08:34 AM
An aircraft carrier?? OK, what's the story...please?
About 1983-4. The Navy realized they'd never actually tested the supercarriers to see just how well they would survive torpedo and bomb explosions. So my bird-farm was selected (CV-67). We spend months getting ready. Things like desks and file cabinets and tool boxes and such weren't of concern, so we bubble wrapped them. That or removed them from the ship. We stripped the ship of all the loose gear we didn't need. We bubble wrapped darn near everything else. The Navy was interested in the aircraft elevators, engines, boilers, hull integrity, etc. Things that couldn't be bubble wrapped and really would cripple or sink the ship.
So, after months of preparation and weeks of bubble wrapping, we steamed off to get blown up. Made for some fun rides. Explosions here, explosions there, big ones, little ones, nearby and farther away. Some were to punch holes, some were to break the back of the ship. Nothing like riding a carrier that's been thrown several hundred feet, Hang on!
After something like two weeks of getting blown up it was learned that supercarriers can indeed survive some massive hits.
For bubble wrapping, we had truckload after truckload of bubblewrap. Unlimited supply. The pier was covered in pallets of the stuff. Being mature anchor-clankers, we played. We'd make big piles of the stuff to jump into of the side of the ship. We'd throw forklifts and such into piles of it. We'd see how high we could get wrenches and such to bounce off the stuff. Great fun.