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HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM AUSTRALIA https://twitter.com/gfentonwells/status/947418728471314433 (turn up the sound for the end!)
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Supposedly all that stuff is at a safe distance so "disaster"?
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Dec 31, 2017 13:33
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The barge blew up and covered everyone in smoke and kids got hyperexcited.  ed: two guys were operating the fireworks from the barge so they uh, swam for it.
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Dec 31, 2017 13:33
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Synthbuttrange posted:The barge blew up and covered everyone in smoke and kids got hyperexcited. A similar thing happened in Canada once. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw-FbwmzPKo
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Dec 31, 2017 14:15
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Synthbuttrange posted:HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM AUSTRALIA Fireworks near my house make me nervous (gas plant between me and the river where they set the fireworks off). But til this day I still sit outside getting a free show and 'ooooo aahhhhhh' at it all. (secretly wondering how much better the show would be if the plant went up. Not suicidal, but drat it would be a good blast!
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Dec 31, 2017 15:31
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Synthbuttrange posted:ed: two guys were operating the fireworks from the barge so they uh, swam for it.
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Dec 31, 2017 15:39
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Collateral Damage posted:Isn't part of the point of launching from a barge that you control it remotely? CAN launch remotely. We are talking Australians here. Life isn't dangerous enough already, we need a bit of an edge to it.
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Dec 31, 2017 17:14
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Humphreys posted:CAN launch remotely. We are talking Australians here. Life isn't dangerous enough already, we need a bit of an edge to it. They probably had a couple of escape crocs with saddles ready to go.
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Dec 31, 2017 20:07
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Proteus Jones posted:They probably had a couple of escape crocs with saddles ready to go. yea but they got taken down by the water spiders.
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Dec 31, 2017 20:26
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Humphreys posted:CAN launch remotely. We are talking Australians here. Life isn't dangerous enough already, we need a bit of an edge to it. i doubt australia has figured out the technology for remote explosions
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Dec 31, 2017 20:30
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Blast of Confetti posted:i doubt australia has figured out the technology for remote explosions That is TOTALLY not true  Edit: oh, did you mean deliberate remote explosions? Yeah nah
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Dec 31, 2017 23:31
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Dec 31, 2017 23:35
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I always find fireworks boring as hell because they light them off one at a time over 15-20 min. Firework "disasters" are always so much more interesting. Sure, plan out a routine but I'd rather the same amount of fireworks be crammed into an insane explosion that lasts 3-5 min than spread out over 15-20 and badly timed to music.
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Dec 31, 2017 23:39
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Baronjutter posted:I always find fireworks boring as hell because they light them off one at a time over 15-20 min. Firework "disasters" are always so much more interesting. Sure, plan out a routine but I'd rather the same amount of fireworks be crammed into an insane explosion that lasts 3-5 min than spread out over 15-20 and badly timed to music. You've never been to a good fireworks show in your life then.
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Dec 31, 2017 23:44
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My family always did fireworks all at once because we were impatient and preferred the spectacle of an enormous clusterfuck of light and color instead of doing stuff with any kind of timing or in any kind of sequence. To this day, I still prefer fireworks shows that wind up "failing" and blowing their load all at once to ones that have intricate displays.
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Jan 1, 2018 00:58
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>The devices burn at a high temperature (as hot as 1000°C to 1600°C, or 1800°F to 3000°F), depending on the fuel and oxidizer used, more than sufficient to cause severe skin burns or ignite clothing.
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Jan 1, 2018 01:00
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Volcott posted:>The devices burn at a high temperature (as hot as 1000°C to 1600°C, or 1800°F to 3000°F), depending on the fuel and oxidizer used, more than sufficient to cause severe skin burns or ignite clothing. And they don't need air, so the 'close your mouth on the flame' party trick doesn't work.
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Jan 1, 2018 01:19
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I call bullshit. Snowglobe of Doom posted:That is TOTALLY not true I laughed. Ooooowwwwwww.
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Jan 1, 2018 01:53
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ChesterJT posted:You've never been to a good fireworks show in your life then. Yes, that's the point he's trying to make. The best one I went to was one a friend was doing and one of the big shells came back to earth before detonating. I can still picture the silhouette of him and his buddies running from ground zero as it went off like a strobe.
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Jan 1, 2018 01:55
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Gromit posted:Yes, that's the point he's trying to make. That doesn't appear to be the point he's trying to make at all. It seems he's clearly saying fireworks shows in general are lame and it's more fun to just set everything off at once. Granted the big ball of fire is pretty cool, but if you go to a large display done well it's never "fire one, wait, fire another, etc" for 30 minutes.
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Jan 1, 2018 02:25
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a few years ago the city of san diego accidentally set off their entire 4th of july fireworks show all at once, turning what was supposed to be a 20-minute show into under 30 seconds of total war https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndVhgq1yHdA awesome
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Jan 1, 2018 02:54
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Those always make me think of this https://youtu.be/pdFl__NlOpA
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Jan 1, 2018 07:49
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Sagebrush posted:a few years ago the city of san diego accidentally set off their entire 4th of july fireworks show all at once, turning what was supposed to be a 20-minute show into under 30 seconds of total war I was there. It was followed by most of us standing around for another half hour waiting for the rest of the show.
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Jan 1, 2018 10:39
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Synthbuttrange posted:HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM AUSTRALIA This happened at the Lottery West Skyworks in Perth on Australia Day several years ago. I was in the city working at the time, near the river but no line-of-sight. All I heard was this enormous BANG and was like wtf. Next day I found out that the entire barge of fireworks had detonated at once right at the start of the show. Good poo poo.
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Jan 1, 2018 11:29
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cheese-cube posted:This happened at the Lottery West Skyworks in Perth on Australia Day several years ago. I was in the city working at the time, near the river but no line-of-sight. All I heard was this enormous BANG and was like wtf. Next day I found out that the entire barge of fireworks had detonated at once right at the start of the show. Good poo poo. 15 years or so ago I was right across the street from a display and drat near got hit by one of the streams off an umbrella firework that went off way too low. If I hadn't jumped back I probably wouldn't be typing this and even then it landed maybe 2 feet in front of me.
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Jan 1, 2018 11:37
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ChesterJT posted:That doesn't appear to be the point he's trying to make at all. It seems he's clearly saying fireworks shows in general are lame and it's more fun to just set everything off at once. Granted the big ball of fire is pretty cool, but if you go to a large display done well it's never "fire one, wait, fire another, etc" for 30 minutes. My joke being that taking your statement literally agrees with what he said. He has, indeed, never been to a good show because they are all the same unless there's a malfunction.
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Jan 1, 2018 12:36
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dis astranagant posted:15 years or so ago I was right across the street from a display and drat near got hit by one of the streams off an umbrella firework that went off way too low. If I hadn't jumped back I probably wouldn't be typing this and even then it landed maybe 2 feet in front of me. In AU we do all our firework displays from barges out on the water, can't think of a single (Sizable) show which is done in-land, just seems crazy to me idk. Also relevant, this old classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGIgkbCqSHo
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Jan 1, 2018 12:52
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Simi Valley had a fireworks accident that injured about two dozen people back in 2013. One shell went off on the ground causing other shells to go off. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awRBqJDL3h0
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Jan 1, 2018 14:39
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RandomPauI posted:Simi Valley had a fireworks accident that injured about two dozen people back in 2013. One shell went off on the ground causing other shells to go off. HOLY poo poo @ 0:26 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awRBqJDL3h0&t=26s
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Blast of Confetti posted:i doubt australia has figured out the technology for remote explosions Not really, no. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Zo_O31M730 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_WKr-G6Lp8 quote:The "insufficiently skilled" explosives contractor Rod McCracken was indicted by the coroner for manslaughter but the charges were later dropped and he was ultimately fined $15,000 for a lesser offence.
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Jan 1, 2018 16:12
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monolithburger posted:Not really, no.  "I was born in Canberra hospital, and I'm lucky I wasn't killed by it as well."
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monolithburger posted:Not really, no. Mods, change my name to Rod McCracken.
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Cthulu Carl posted:Mods, change my name to Rod McCracken. Any relation to Phil? 
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loving awesome. On of my cow orkers flipped a truck with one of those in Vietnam. Apparently they were taking off right near a road and they had the Vietnamese cops blocking traffic but some panel truck driver didn't care and drove right around them. He didn't make it far.
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i was at a brew-fest event a few years back where a gust of wind blew an umbrella into a group of people and injured a guy to the point where he was taken away in an ambulance. i think it broke his jaw or something, people who saw it were shook up
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