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On Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:55:05 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>>> You must have seen Mythbusters... :)
>>> No - but I've seen Brainiac...
>>
>> Mythbusters does air over there, but I forget on which channel. You'd
>> probably like it - partly for the funthings they do, and partly because
>> you could deconstruct what they're doing and see the flaws in their
>> methods.
>
> Oh, I do watch it from time to time. A lot of the stuff they do isn't
> that interesting. I did see them testing whether you can use explosives
> to paint a room (no, oddly enough), whether shooting the window of an
> airplane causes it to explode (also no), whether that guy in the Darwin
> Awards could have got shot in the groin by using a bullet as a car fuse
> (yet again, no), and whether a coin dropped from the top of the Empire
> State Building would puncture human flesh (surprisingly, no).
You need to see the one where they used explosives to remove concrete
slag from a cement truck. In fact pretty much any of the episodes where
they cause a big explosion is worth a watch. :-)
The thermite episode (recently) was very interesting - replicated a video
on Youtube where someone ignited thermite on a block of ice. Thermite
isn't an explosive compound, but that combination did cause an explosion.
Jim
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>> Not too much danger of a parcel in the mail accidentally getting
>> blowtorched, I would think...
>
> Perhaps, but transporting dangerous materials through the mail is
> prohibited in most locales. It's generally shipped by special courier.
That I can believe, yes.
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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On Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:18:21 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> Not too much danger of a parcel in the mail accidentally getting
>>> blowtorched, I would think...
>>
>> Perhaps, but transporting dangerous materials through the mail is
>> prohibited in most locales. It's generally shipped by special courier.
>
> That I can believe, yes.
There was a recent story in a paper(?) in California about a guy who was
under suspicion because the company shipping a bunch of explosive
materials to his home was concerned about the quantity of explosives
being sent to a residence. The guy was arrested, but he was actually a
licensed pyrotechnican - but there were also problems with drugs
(allegedly).
I heard about it because he's the son-in-law of a coworker of mine.
Jim
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Jim Henderson wrote:
> licensed pyrotechnican
I always wanted to take a job as a fireworks QC manager. "Hmmm. Nice, but
needs more green..."
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!
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Jim Henderson wrote:
> Mythbusters does air over there,
It's also all over youtube.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!
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Jim Henderson wrote:
> You need to see the one where they used explosives to remove concrete
> slag from a cement truck.
Even the one where they overpressurize a water heater was fun.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!
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On Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:04:14 -0700, Darren New wrote:
> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> You need to see the one where they used explosives to remove concrete
>> slag from a cement truck.
>
> Even the one where they overpressurize a water heater was fun.
Oh yes, that one was quite good.
I especially like the ones where they get an unexpected result. Like
with Thermite & Ice.
Jim
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On Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:03:20 -0700, Darren New wrote:
> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> Mythbusters does air over there,
>
> It's also all over youtube.
Yeah, but they don't have complete episodes, do they?
Jim
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On Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:02:57 -0700, Darren New wrote:
> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> licensed pyrotechnican
>
>
> I always wanted to take a job as a fireworks QC manager. "Hmmm. Nice,
> but needs more green..."
LOL, that would be fun if it worked that way. :-)
Jim
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> Mythbusters does air over there, but I forget on which channel.
I usually catch it on one of the Discovery channels.
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