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NIlooc223
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Have you guys ever set off an explosion if so whats your story?

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This is the kinda stuff the CIA searches the internet for. You've now been targeted by black ops.

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Well, this couldn't be misconstrued as wishfulness for terrorism, at all.

What is all the fuss about anyway?
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I once blew up a baloon too far, is that a crime?

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We blew up a hairspray can in our camp fire once... We found some debris of the can roughly 80 meters away from the fire on the way home, and noticed how dangerous it actually was...

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Made PVC pipe bombs out of matchsticks and motor oil. Did it just to see how big the explosion could be (did on a friends property, his family owns like 25 acres), not the best idea with oil. Very dirty explosion.

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NIlooc223
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Posted: 21st Jul 2011 23:43
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haha

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set my leg on fire two days ago if that counts?


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When I saw the thread from the forum index it missed off the last word...



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Quote: "When I saw the thread from the forum index it missed off the last word..."


Maybe he does...we shan't be prejudiced.

I once tied a hand grenade to a nuclear bomb and threw it in a fusion reactor. It went *poof*.

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Quote: "When I saw the thread from the forum index it missed off the last word..."

Hahaha

On topic, that last time I blew something up was probably at scout camp. I threw a couple of batteries in the fire, it made the fire much more interesting

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2 liter bottle of coke + mentos

Am I a terrorist now?


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It's funny, because apparently the Patriot Act looks out for people who look up how to make bombs, yet I've read through and Google'd it many times, and have never gone away in cuf...hold on someone's knocking at the door.

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I had an explosion after some dodgy chicken, couldn't walk properly for a week.

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Posted: 22nd Jul 2011 00:56 Edited at: 22nd Jul 2011 01:04
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related:

working as a (railroad) engineer on a switch job one cold night - about an hour into the shift, an explosion occured near my feet, with shrapnel felt along my shin and up to my knee.

after stopping the engine and rummaging through the metalic bits that lay strewn about (none larger than 1/2 an inch in length x ~1/8" wide), it was noted that some of the bits had pieces of a label still attached to one side. puzzling the them together revealed part of an Rx presciption, then: !

it seems the previous engineer is asthmatic; his inhaler had slipped from his jacket pocket and onto the strip-heater (which can get rather hot) attached below the window, near the floor, and alongside the seat. i'm sure the canister held on as long as it could before the pressure built up and then BOOM. ie, no need to finish the coffee i'd prepared to get me going that night...

to summarize:



more of this overly-drawn-out story, and moral:

it happened a second time when a lighter fell from my own pocket some other night... smoking has more than one way to kill, you see.

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Posted: 22nd Jul 2011 01:00
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I must have the worst luck (or best?) when it comes to explosions.

I've put batteries in campfires, aerosol canisters, etc. never had one blow up. I've even tried a lighter (still had half of the fuel left) and all it did was melt, then the butane evaporated and only made the fire get big for a second.


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Quote: "I had an explosion after some dodgy chicken, couldn't walk properly for a week. "


lol, someone had to lower the tone

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In Korea we were still eating C-Rations from the Vietnam era. We found that the little cans of peanut butter would explode pretty well if thrown in a fire. There wasn't much shrapnel, but the napalm was fun.

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I had a black cat firecracker exploded in my hand once. Black cats tend to burn a bit hotter than normal firecrackers and let me tell you something, I've never felt anything burn so badly in my life. 3rd degree burns on two of my fingers. It practically melted the skin right off and I had to keep my fingers separated or they'd fused together.

On a related note, I burned a finger on a bunsen burner in chemistry back in highschool. Didn't hurt nearly as much as the firecracker, but I did get to see my fingers turn black and puff up before my very eyes.

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Explosions are fun
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Not when you're in the middle of them.

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Posted: 22nd Jul 2011 09:41
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The coolest small explosion ever is throwing a small firecracker inside an empty dumpster, the explosion sounds like it's so much bigger than it is.

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I have an M90 sitting here I've been wanting to let off, but I need something cool to strap it to so I can film it and I'm fresh out of barbie dolls.

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Ever stuffed someone's mailbox full of fireworks? It blew the door off...

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Posted: 22nd Jul 2011 11:14
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It was a cold and windy day and a friend and I were once gonna light a fire in a drum inside a ostrich shelter(looks kinda like a bus shelter,3 walls and a roof)

we got a bit too gung ho with the petrol on the kindling.

with a lit oily rag on the end of a stick we crept in to drop it in the barrel, when boom.

the flames shot straight up hit the roof and fired out at a 90 degree angle, straight at us.

we got off lightly with a massive fright, singed hair and missing eyebrows.

I've never been as wreckless with petrol since that incident.

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I had a pyro-destruction streak when i was younger. Having a giant field in front of my house helped. Listing in order of effect.

Matchstick rockets, rather childish but very fun to launch tinfoil rockets. A few singed fingers.

Matchstick bomb, used a tennis ball filled with matchsticks. You can easily misjudge it.

Flash fires made using quick burn fire logs and charcoal. Very tricky and dangerous. Smart enough to use a rope to open it. 6ft flame pillar (+3ft tank)

Firecracker bomb - picked them up at france, the fuses were so short you had to throw them instantly after you lit them. Figuring it was too dangerous, we tied the remaining 5 boxes of them together got some fuse wire from a firework, lit it & ran. 2ft crater was left

Fireworks bomb - same as above except with pretty colours and explosive sparks, no hole really just burn marks from the magnesium.

Bleach bomb. Was stupid and i do regret that one.

Thermite, nuff said.

Not the greatest of mine/friends ideas but they killed time and the preparation was pretty extensive. Not entirely irresponsible, we made a 2 layer brick blast chamber & cleared the under bush around it in case of fire. Also had a sandbag to dish out.


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....

Laz, somehow every post you make seems more and more scouse.

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that's just the explosive stuff, the amount of stuff we made from random things we found was unbelievable.

And hay! Biggadd is scouse! I was just a inventive bored child.


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I wanna make a coilgun one day. I reckon I could wire it into mains fairly easily. If done right the capacitors would balance out the inductors and balance the load. Fuse the crap out of it too, just to be safe.

Decent transformer to amp up the current, then see what happens. Only problem is, I don't exactly want that in my house.

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Quote: "Only problem is, I don't exactly want that in my house."


Obviously. It might hurt the pony.

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Ponies. Thank you.

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Quote: "Ever stuffed someone's mailbox full of fireworks? It blew the door off..."


It's also a federal offense.

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Luckily I was only 8 back then Still a funny thing to think back of though. We were punished if it makes you feel better.

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Quote: "It's also a federal offense."


Wow. That's practically a housewarming tradition in some parts of Britain.

And our mailboxes are attached to our doors.

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Quote: "Wow. That's practically a housewarming tradition in some parts of Britain.

And our mailboxes are attached to our doors."


Oh. Well, at least in the United State's it's an offense. Technically even if you buy a mailbox here, you don't actually own it. You are basically "licensed" the mailbox.

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I live in Switzerland. It doesn't go unpunished, but it's certainly not a federal offense

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Quote: "Technically even if you buy a mailbox here, you don't actually own it. You are basically "licensed" the mailbox."


That...that's pretty stupid.

Quote: "Well, at least in the United State's it's an offense."


Firecrackers through your front door are an offense here too.

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grown men blowing up mailboxes should be convicted of a federal offense. I mean, wtf?

That said, children are not as negatively affected by "federal offenses", so it's not as bad as it sounds. Usually offenses are wiped off a childs record when they turn 18.

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What exactly is a federal offense anyway?

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Perhaps this isn't the best subject to be talked over on these boards. A bomb was just set off in Norway (Oslo)

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Quote: "Perhaps this isn't the best subject to be talked over on these boards"


The 'up' in the thread title doesn't show on the main forum page when this thread was last replied to. I was all like...whhaaaaatttt?!?!

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Quote: "Perhaps this isn't the best subject to be talked over on these boards. A bomb was just set off in Norway (Oslo)"


Yes. Perhaps a lock is called for on the grounds of unfortunate timing.

Otherwise I might be tempted to talk about my childhood chemistry experiments - I'd found an interesting and very informative book on experiments you could do at home in the local library.
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Quote: "Perhaps this isn't the best subject to be talked over on these boards. A bomb was just set off in Norway (Oslo)"

Should we shut down the FPSC board whenever there is a shooting?

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Yeh let's be honest, all of us are moral enough not to say the explosion looked awesome when we're aware lives were lost.

Noone's mentioned 9/11 yet on this explosions thread, I'm fairly certain we're all level-headed enough to be mature and tactful with this conversation.

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thats no good have they found out who did this?

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Quote: "Should we shut down the FPSC board whenever there is a shooting?"

Nope; but snide remarks like that can get you shut down.

The Oslo occurrence isn't why I made the remark; discussing this subject openly on a board where young and sometime impressionable young people can have unforeseen consequences.

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No offense, but as a child I always found that insulting to my intelligence? I'm young, therefore blowing stuff up is cool? Give us some credit please.

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Quote: "grown men blowing up mailboxes should be convicted of a federal offense. I mean, wtf?"


Butterfly Effect anyone?

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Quote: "No offense, but as a child I always found that insulting to my intelligence? I'm young, therefore blowing stuff up is cool? Give us some credit please."


For someone with multiple slaps, warnings and a ban here for various "childish behavior"; I'll take that statement for what it's worth. It's not up for debate here. This thread is going downhill, and really has no place here to begin with.

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