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Title: Educational and funny
Post by: Martinus on June 05, 2002, 06:59:12 pm
This is one of the best pieces of edutainment I've ever read.

Diploma in destruction (//www.nuthouse.org/~hendersa/college/experiments/boom.html)

Maeglamor says: Don't try this at home kids. :nod:
Title: Educational and funny
Post by: phreak on June 05, 2002, 07:30:44 pm
i think i will try this at home because i have nothing better to do
Title: Educational and funny
Post by: Alikchi on June 05, 2002, 08:08:11 pm
That sounds like fun :devilidea
Title: Educational and funny
Post by: Martinus on June 05, 2002, 08:19:34 pm
If you never pay heed to another thing I say pay attention to this:

For pity's sake don't do 'The act of God' indoors, do it in a field or some secluded, non flammable place (i.e. not a gas station). I don't want to see any HLP'ers on the 'unfortunate deaths' list.
Title: Educational and funny
Post by: Knight Templar on June 05, 2002, 08:39:58 pm
lol tha was so freaking funny
Title: Educational and funny
Post by: CP5670 on June 05, 2002, 11:42:42 pm
That "act of god" sounds quite interesting... ;)
Title: Educational and funny
Post by: Ulundel on June 06, 2002, 02:21:52 am
But I'm crazy enough to do it. :p So, who wants to join? :D
Title: Educational and funny
Post by: Darkage on June 06, 2002, 03:06:12 am
I have almost all the stuff home to make the PVC artilery gun:D
Title: Educational and funny
Post by: delta_7890 on June 06, 2002, 05:52:22 am
Sweet Jesus!  I'm dying oh laughter!  Oh Christ, my ribs!
Title: Educational and funny
Post by: an0n on June 06, 2002, 06:46:52 am
At first glance I thought 'amateurs' but they're actually quite sophisticated in their methods and seem to have made some nifty stuff with cheap components.
Title: Educational and funny
Post by: NeoHunter on June 06, 2002, 06:49:05 am
I think somebody is bored like hell.:p
Title: Educational and funny
Post by: an0n on June 06, 2002, 06:56:32 am
If you think those things are cool/suicidal you should see the 'Fish-Killer'. You fix together a hook, some bait, a shotgun shell (gunpowder replaced with plastics) and a party popper. The fish pulls the hook, sets off the party popper, ignites the plastics (or the trigger charges), fires the shot, blows the fish to pieces and makes a nice mushroom-splash in the water. Very cool.
Title: Educational and funny
Post by: Ulundel on June 06, 2002, 06:57:48 am
Last summer... :p
Title: Educational and funny
Post by: NeoHunter on June 06, 2002, 07:05:37 am
Now I'm convinced that you are all nuts.:p
Title: Educational and funny
Post by: Redfang on June 06, 2002, 07:41:38 am
:lol::lol::yes:
 
Take pictures when you do it! :D
Title: Educational and funny
Post by: Ulundel on June 06, 2002, 07:43:16 am
I tried but the spash was a little bit stronger than I thaught. :rolleyes:
Title: Educational and funny
Post by: an0n on June 06, 2002, 07:48:53 am
http://www.geocities.com/jimmyrickets/fishing.gif

Taken from the Makeshift Arsenal.
Title: Educational and funny
Post by: Ulundel on June 06, 2002, 07:56:15 am
the page is not available...
Title: Educational and funny
Post by: an0n on June 06, 2002, 08:00:14 am
Drag it to the address bar.
Title: Educational and funny
Post by: Zeronet on June 06, 2002, 10:21:46 am
I am going to make that Cannon :D
Title: Educational and funny
Post by: Darkage on June 06, 2002, 10:24:25 am
Quote
Originally posted by Zeronet
I am going to make that Cannon :D



That cannon makes me hungry.

Yummie gonna make Shoarma.
Title: Educational and funny
Post by: Stargazer_2098 on June 06, 2002, 11:02:38 am
Seems like some people has a too much free-time.... But it was fun reading... :lol:  (http://anywherebb.com/forum/images/smiles/yelrotflmao.gif) :lol:



Stargazer.
Title: Educational and funny
Post by: Unknown Target on June 06, 2002, 11:54:13 am
I WILL make that cannon:D
Title: Educational and funny
Post by: TheCelestialOne on June 06, 2002, 12:05:56 pm
"...It is probably important to mention that, at that moment in the experiment, I still had hair on my body..."

(http://www.nuthouse.org/~hendersa/college/experiments/nwhyd.gif)

"...It is probably important to mention that, at that moment in the experiment, I no longer had hair on my body..."

:D
Title: Educational and funny
Post by: LtNarol on June 06, 2002, 12:30:34 pm
the wax thing...i gotta try that sometime
Title: Educational and funny
Post by: an0n on June 06, 2002, 12:44:24 pm
If you're going to play with fire, make sure any friends you have near it are not complete dumbasses. This one time me and my sister were playing with some nail-varnish remover, pouring it about and lighting it and ****. All of a sudden the fire we lit in a small cup gets outta control and guess what my sisters friend does to try and put it out..........She whacks a cup full of highly flammable NVR with a tea towel. The tea towel sets on fire, the NVR that was just doing nothing in the bottom of the cup blazes through the air in a firey streak and all over the curtains. And all the while, unbeknownst to us, a small trail of fire has been making its way towards the half-full bottle of NVR. Sufficed to say, the rest of the night was equally as good fun.
Title: Educational and funny
Post by: Martinus on June 06, 2002, 02:50:37 pm
I really don't recommend 'the act of God' for sheer insane destruction reasons but if you really want to mess with PVC artillery look it up here: SPUDTECH! (www.spudtech.com) this guy has built some interesting toys and he's got a bit on safety guidelines. If you're going to terrify the neighbours, do it safely :nod:
Title: Educational and funny
Post by: Kellan on June 06, 2002, 02:59:43 pm
Say, I have 3 months off school before I go to Uni... ;7
Title: Educational and funny
Post by: Martinus on June 06, 2002, 03:02:25 pm
Hmmm, I wonder if you could have a spudlauncher as a secondary on a herc? It would be dumbfire of course :)
Title: Educational and funny
Post by: Kellan on June 06, 2002, 03:09:03 pm
Does that refer to the weapon itself, or those who fire it? :lol:
Title: Educational and funny
Post by: beatspete on June 06, 2002, 03:27:45 pm
I always thought letting the gas from a lighter drain into a milkbottle then lighting it was pretty fun, but with this....
The streets of Kintore will never be safe again...

pete
Title: Educational and funny
Post by: Stryke 9 on June 06, 2002, 04:40:06 pm
Amateurs. I've seen 12-year-olds one-up that. Want to have real fun (provided you can outrun a good dozen cops in cars), get your hands on a mint copy of Bayo's 100 Questions for a Guerrilla. MOST of the things won't blow up as you assemble them, if you know what you're doing (they tell you in the beginning which ones do), though the Molotov launcher looks a tad specious to me- never tried it, but something about flaming glass bottles and explosions meant more for high-velocity lumps of steel seems like this stuff musta been more sturdy back in the days of the Revolution.:D
Title: Educational and funny
Post by: Martinus on June 06, 2002, 05:44:14 pm
Unfortunately you seem to have misconstrued the intention of all of this stuff. We're attempting to have fun here, fun generally doesn't involve getting arrested, killed or ****ed up. (Please excuse my language.)

I live in Northern Ireland, if I feel the need to get killed I'll go start a riot with the police service over here, they'll gladly shoot me in the face with a few plastic bullets. That'll teach me a lesson.

If you really feel the need to maim someone or waste the cops' time then go get a copy of the anarcist's cookbook. Hopefully you'll **** yourself up before you get a chance to harm anyone else.
Title: Educational and funny
Post by: Stryke 9 on June 06, 2002, 05:58:07 pm
Eh, you don't have to maim anybody. But a little property damage never hurt anything.:D

Besides, I was giving only one example. A lot of the stuff in there isn't really any more dangerous than, say, a potato cannon. A little more sabotage-oriented, sure, but about the same (and in fact quite a bit less stupid than starting a grease fire with candle shavings). Anarchist's cookbook my ass- thing's a sham I could smell from a hundred miles away, as well as violating the name of sanarchists, whose most famous members have actually not been vicious redneck psychos like today's breed.
Title: Educational and funny
Post by: Anaz on June 06, 2002, 08:41:02 pm
hehe, I live on 10 acres, and people really don't mind gunshots in the middle of the night

:devilidea:

If my parents ever leave for a weekend, I'm gonna make me some potato artillery...
Title: Educational and funny
Post by: Mr. Vega on June 06, 2002, 09:36:45 pm
Wow. Never thought microwaves had that much power in them.
I'm gonna try the 60-watt lightbulb in a glass of water.
Title: Educational and funny
Post by: beatspete on June 07, 2002, 04:02:54 am
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Originally posted by Mr. Vega
Wow. Never thought microwaves had that much power in them.


Look at cooking instructions for something microwaveable, see how it has diferent times for 650W and 750W.  Yes, thats their power.

pete

mmmmmm, standard grade physics.
Title: Educational and funny
Post by: Kellan on June 07, 2002, 04:05:18 am
Quote
Originally posted by Stryke 9
Eh, you don't have to maim anybody. But a little property damage never hurt anything.:D


That makes less sense than I do... :confused: :p
Title: Educational and funny
Post by: an0n on June 07, 2002, 07:17:22 am
The Terrorists Handbook is the way to go. It goes so far as to explain the (sometimes sketchy) theories behind the chemical reactions. And it tells you about vapourised particle bombs ;7. You get about 100% ignition as the vapour has a higher air-combustable ratio meaning all the combustables can react simultaneously.

Try going to: http://surf.to/theforum

They've got a whole 'Improvised Weaponry' section. Although last I checked they had a chemical quiz you had to pass in order to keep the rejects from posting.
Title: Educational and funny
Post by: Martinus on June 07, 2002, 12:08:04 pm
You need to have a death wish to mess with 90% of that stuff. Most of those handbooks describe industrial processes which do not really work well in garden shed conditions. The chance of losing body parts is terrifyingly high, it really sounds cool when you're 15 but you soon realise it's not worth the risk.

I could've been killed a few years ago when me and some friends built a fertilizer bomb, we wanted to set it off in a forest which was out of the way and unlikely to attract attention. Thankfully I got the chemical proportions wrong because when I was running away I fell and hurt myself. I would easily have been in it's blast radius if it had worked. Trust me, it's not worth it. Go buy some fireworks or build a spud launcher :nod:
Title: Educational and funny
Post by: Stryke 9 on June 07, 2002, 03:33:20 pm
One would assume so, from the way half of these books give disclaimers every 5 words when describing how to play with potassium chloride...

Fertilizer bombs? Meh. Light a cow**** on fire and throw it frisbee-style. Practically the same, only more entertaining and less likely to embarass you when trying to explain lost limbs, etc.
Title: Educational and funny
Post by: Martinus on June 07, 2002, 06:42:31 pm
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
Fertilizer bombs? Meh. Light a cow**** on fire and throw it frisbee-style. Practically the same, only more entertaining and less likely to embarass you when trying to explain lost limbs, etc.


This had better be the worst joke ever otherwise you need to re-examine your grasp of chemistry. You're totally in the wrong ballpark if you think the two are in any way similar.  Perhaps that's a good thing :doubt:

Methinks this thread has said enough.
Title: Educational and funny
Post by: Grey Wolf on June 07, 2002, 07:12:09 pm
Interesting site.... :D :mad2: :D
Title: Educational and funny
Post by: Stryke 9 on June 07, 2002, 07:39:20 pm
I was joking. But evidently humor is lost on the sort of people who think **** bombs are cool.

An0n: Women, eh?:D