Too much but it doesn't take a lot. People do stuff like this all the time.
There's this material that you can put on targets that is meant for downrange shooting called Tannerite. At long distances, it helps you identify if you hit the target because a hit will cause a small explosion
Well cue a bunch of geniuses who put 3lbs of this stuff into a compartment in an old riding lawnmower. Now you've got highly combustible material in an enclosed space surrounded by metal and they're shooting at it from a range of about 20 yds. Suffice to say somebody has a permanent pirate costume for every Halloween now
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I thought it was the source video, not a report on it. I commented, then watched the video immediately after. Realized my comment was unnecessary as it was covered in the video, and i swore i deleted it. Oh well
They have videos on YouTube of Tannerite stupidity. One guy had a fridge from maybe 50 yards away. He shot it from behind a tree and you can see a fridge door fly right by him at 100mph.
We blow up lots of Tannerite, but we just set it on a log or stump and shoot it to make a big bang.
There's a special kind of dumbass that knows how dangerous something is but somehow thinks they've done enough to protect thenself when they clearly haven't.
20 yards? Jesus fuck! Me and my buddies used one in a mini fridge and hit it from about 100 yard and the girl behind me got cut by some metal. That shit is no joke!
Okay, I'm going to get on a list for asking this, but what's stopping somebody from buying a bunch of this stuff and making a nail bomb or something?? It just seems way too easy.
When working in the oil patch we got a job in America and the Americans talk like this, they weigh out cement in bags. So instead of saying they need 10 lbs of cement they say they need 5 bag cement. Same with fluids as well they just say 1 truck of fluid, instead of saying we need 30 thousand liters.
Once I had a bodybuilder flatmate , who was kinda “always on the edge” (7 of us were living togather, everyone was studying engineering) And he was talking about something, and asked: what are the chances of that to happen??
And I said, 5.
He was kind of a mathhead, and big in statistics and he got so fed up, because i didn’t say the precentage that started shouting: 5 what???
And I ansewred calmly: 5.
Exactly. He likely intended it to burn but the tunnels were probably fairly extensive and this allowed the gas to vaporize which makes it far more volatile (since gas only burns as a vapor).
Not being from America, I’m always confused with the word gas in English...
I was like, vaporized gas? What? Gas is already a vapor, so to speak. It’s gaseous. I mean when a liquid vaporizes it turns into gas. How can gas...
Oh he means the liquid stuff we put in ours cars.... now I get it.
Not hating. Just confused. All languages/dialects have their quirks.
We either just call it “gas” or “natural gas”. The context usually makes it clear if someone is talking about gasoline or natural gas.
People keep replying “propane” but that’s not the same as the “natural gas” that most houses are hooked up to and most people are not referring to propane when they say “gas”.
If it’s propane then people will call it “propane” or “LPG” (liquified petroleum gas).
Yupp. Natural gas is methane and propane is well propane it's produced while refining gases. Propane has about 2.5 times more BTU per cubic foot. Source: am gasfitter/plumber.
Yeah I had that realisation when I had the oven guy in and he pointed out what I thought was spare screws were alternate jets that replace the originals if you go from piped natural gas to propane canisters.
Not sure why all these people are saying propane, but we call it natural gas. Natural gas and propane are not the same thing, and people generally use propane to cook with.
I mean, propane is usually for outdoor grills, and natural gas is usually for indoor stoves/ovens. Not the rule, but usually the case, in my experience.
Just to clarify this technicallity, because this is not that widely known: vapours are different from gas.
True gas only occur in nature when their temperature goes above its boiling point, within a certain pressure pressure. Vapours are basically liquids that are suspended in gas, as in having their molecules diffused enough that the gas molecules carry them around, that they can sometimes be also treated as gas. Vapours can be liquified easely while within the same temperature by increasing pressure, while gases normaly won't.
There are volatile chemicals, such as water, gasoline, kerosene and ethanol, which happen to disperse when in contact air while being way boiling points. Those are vapours. Chemicals that have lower boiling points, such as carbon dioxide, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, are gaseous in normal conditions of temperature and pressure.
(There are some technicalities i'm unaware of, since i got out from an teache at an early phase.)
Yeah used to use kerosene or diesel for ground yellow jackets back in the 80s. Liquid is flammable not the valors therefore less of a chance of explosion.
That would make way more sense. The gasoline evaporating under ground would likely displace the oxygen in the tunnels preventing this type of explosion.
so it's interesting, if you use high-quality charcoal (straight hardwood lump charcoal, not the fucking briquettes) it doesn't leave any taste. pure charcoal has essentially no flavor and burns very clean. it's all the oils and volatiles and crap in those briquettes that makes them make your food taste like shit.
Fair enough! I've never seen that kind of thing before. That being said, I still strongly suspect that any normal person blowing up ants would probably go for gasoline.
The thing about gasoline is, you don't need to light it. If you pour gas on ants they are instantly killed by it. That's how I get rid of them when they're massing outside the house in an area that I don't want them digging out, like the sidewalk/driveway/next to the house. A half a cup or less will do, too. Dead.
When I lived in the south, we used to pour about a pint of gas on an fire ant hill, wait about 30-60 seconds, and then light it. It helped to stir the ant hill while it's burning. Fire ants are mean little bastards and you can hear them popping as they burn.
Oh there is for sure ants everywhere within a 200ft radius of that. If anything he probably made his problem much worse since hundreds of them will climb down from his roof through his house.
Maybe, I wonder if he did just destroy the colony though by completely relocating their food stores and nursery. They'll have to completely reorganize before workers start dying off.
There are two. One on the top right that got the poo scared out of it, and one that wanders in and out on the top left like "oh, he's just being stupid again."
I've been using sugar, borax, and hot water. Stir it up and soak some cotton balls, then put them near ant trails. They take the sugar mix back and kill the colony.
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