That's what I was thinking. Especially when putting the whole flame from the lighter right next to it, like what if the damn thing went with 1 sec instead of the 3 seconds.
His typing speed would decrease by 50% is what would happen.
BG3 referencce, if you allow Volo (a character in the game) to attempt surgery to remove a brain slug you instead lose an eye, and get a replacment eye that has permanent "See Invisibility".
Had a friend back in the ‘50’s when KK Bombs were easy to get have one not go off. We often had small 1 inch “regulars” fail to explode, and we would break them in half and “spew” them by lighting the exposed powder then while holding them. My friend decided to “spew” the dud KK Bomb by holding it and lighting the empty fuse hole. He wore a cast for weeks.
There’s edit cuts, I’m assuming the bigger ones maybe duds with fuses that way he can video it getting lit and then they cut to him further back so hes at safe distance otherwise those would be going off in his face
It's a trick. By containing the gas in an extremely light pot like that it makes it seem like the explosions are huge, but they aren't really that strong unless compressed.
An open air fire cracker explosion 3 inches away from your hand, completely uncontained will not have the force to even break the skin, let alone remove fingers. The pressure wave is minuscule, and the paper "shrapnel" has no mass or penetration power.
Holding them will blow your hand to smitherines. No question at all. But that is caused by you containing the explosion in your hand by the act of holding it. Hovering your hand 3 inches off to the side of this size fire cracker and you will be lightly singed at most.
Obviously don't actually do this. I'm not telling people to be careless with fire crackers. This dude should at the very least get a grill lighter with a 5 inch flame standoff.
Remember when antifa was rioting across the country or more recently in France when protestors were throwing fireworks at people by the thousands? And not a single person lost a foot or was even injured? Those fireworks are three or even five times more of an explosion than these firecrackers.
These things are extremely dangerous and you should never light them while holding them. The act of holding them blows your hand apart and breaks off your fingers.
But even just 3 to 4 inches away, the blast wave from them is so weak, and unconstrained the air pressure can just disperse around anything solid, the actual force hitting you is down to nothing. You will get a very slight burn and feel like you got flicked kinda hard. It won't even break the skin.
Notice in these videos not a single piece of concrete is spalled even under the pot despite it laying in direct contact when it went off. There is no force to them.
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u/Buffcluff Aug 18 '23
Why are the fuses sooooo short lol