@pluralistic GPS receiver doesn't emit any RF ...

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I used to work on a small freighter (under SAIL, like actual wind power) transporting copra—coconut shell semi dried for oil pressing—between the Kiribati 🇰🇮 islands. We took measures to inert the gasses in the cargo hold to reduce risks of fire. Copra has a stupid low flash temp, so we also cooled the hold before opening for offload. Coconut is dangerous stuff.

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Could a coconut explode at the reduced pressure in an airliner? 😄
#botany #physics #aeronautics

@pluralistic Spotted that when I was on an internal flight in India earlier in the year. And no cricket bats in your cabin baggage either.

@pluralistic Send your coconuts by Swallow instead. They'll take longer to get there, but it's legal.

@pluralistic "You put the ‘nut in the overhead
And close it right up.
You put the 'nut in the overhead
And close it right up …”

@pluralistic They might explode in an unpressurised hold, but not this century, surely! Unless (and remember they grow, and are therefore designed to work, at sea level) they aren't actually strong enough for the 8,000' cabin altitude?

Maybe this airline had a weak one explode once and have decided "never again"?

@pluralistic they don't need to.

They travel by swallow. Tethered under the dorsal wing

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Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?

@pluralistic I think they played Glastonbury in the late '80s.

@pluralistic they're afraid people will smuggle satellite phones inside them.