Messadiah posted:

gonna need an explanation for this

Messadiah posted:

gonna need an explanation for this

Messadiah posted:

gonna need an explanation for this

Say Nothing posted:

starkebn posted:

https://i.imgur.com/c1shsSu.mp4

Platystemon posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF8OuKXySo8

Don't Ask posted:

Throwing charcoal dust into the fire, looks like.

Proteus Jones posted:

If I’m recalling what some other goon reported, it was a homemade smoke-bomb stuff. Which was a fine powder and had coal dust as a component?

Regardless the biggest surprise for me is he’s about 40 and still hasn’t outgrown being in his early 20s.

weg posted:

They need to fire whatever moron decided to stack those like that. What did they think was going to happen there?

Proteus Jones posted:

If I’m recalling what some other goon reported, it was a homemade smoke-bomb stuff. Which was a fine powder and had coal dust as a component?

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

This guy got really badly burnt to 30% of his body but he was still happy to unwrap his bandages and peel off huge chunks of burnt skin when a news crew dropped by his house.
VERY MUCH http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5611489/Mans-horrific-injuries-revealed-engulfed-flames-barbecue.html

quote:

After throwing the bucket's contents onto the fire it spectacularly exploded in his face, causing severe burns to a large portion of his body.

'The flames came out and bit me hard,' he said.

The steel top of the barbecue meant the chemical concoction - which Mark said he used to make smoke bombs - had nowhere to go but straight back into his face.

'It fizzes like a firework but it will fill a garden with smoke,' he explained.

Mark, who originally hails from the United Kingdom, said he panicked after the explosion and ran into his house.

He was in such a frazzled state that he fell over after sprinting inside.

After a stint sitting under a tap in his garden, his partner called an ambulance.

Over the phone, paramedics recommended Mark sit in the shower with cold water running over him.

At this point Mark said he could see 'flesh falling off' his body as the serious injuries he suffered from the intense heat became apparent.

Mark, aged in his mid-40s, was rushed to Hawkesbury Hospital where he stayed overnight.

He was forced to stick the top half of his body out the window in order to keep it cool.

As he was suffering from burns to 30 per cent of his body, surgeons had no choice but to peel back his skin to 'bleeding tissue', and he spent three weeks in a hospital bed after being transferred to Concord Hospital.

'The burns were so severe. The pain was ridiculous,' Mark said.

His skin was so damaged by the burns that it removed the extensive tattoos on his left arm.

He used to work at the hospital as a security technician, and said some of the staff recognised him when he arrived, asking him, 'What the f**k are you doing here?'

Proteus Jones posted:

Regardless the biggest surprise for me is he’s about 40 and still hasn’t outgrown being in his early 20s.

Splicer posted:

Did... did someone fill a balloon with hydrogen?

quote:

Acetylene is chemically unstable which makes it very sensitive to conditions such as excess pressure, excess temperature, static electricity, or mechanical shock. Exposure to any of these conditions can cause it to undergo a violent, explosive decomposition reaction. If this reaction or ignition occurs within the torch base or supply hose it can propagate back into the storage cylinder causing it to explode violently.

Acetylene is very easy to ignite. In fact, the energy from a static spark capable of igniting acetylene is lower than for any other fuel gas except hydrogen. The static charge developed by walking across a carpet floor on a dry day can be 1700 times greater than that needed to ignite acetylene! When unburned acetylene gas is discharged from a torch, static electricity can be generated at the torch tip. If the tip comes in contact with a ground path, a static spark capable of igniting the gas can occur.

Acetylene burns at a very fast rate. The very fast burn rate can accelerate the rate at which pressure is generated in an explosion beyond what would occur for other fuels. This makes acetylene explosions more violent than those of other fuels.

Powershift posted:

I was at a museum and saw this





Fender mounted acetylene tank for the headlights.


Seems like the perfect thing to mount at bumper level of other cars.

Say Nothing posted:

Deteriorata posted:

Beats dumping solid calcium carbide into the headlight housing every few miles. No one in that car would survive a collision severe enough to burst that acetylene tank anyway.

Early automobiles were amazingly dangerous in almost every way imaginable.

Powershift posted:

If it wasn't for the massive shrapnel filled fireball they could have been thrown to safety.

Mr. Fix It posted:

If that's hydrogen, then they're all deaf, permanently.

Powershift posted:

I was at a museum and saw this





Fender mounted acetylene tank for the headlights.


Seems like the perfect thing to mount at bumper level of other cars.

Carbon dioxide posted:

Wrong. If the balloons contain pure hydrogen they'd give a small pop and large fire whoosh, like you see in the video.

However, if the balloons contain knallgas, a 2:1 by volume mixture of hydrogen and oxygen, THAT'S when you get the loud bang.

evobatman posted:

So close to being actual blinker fluid!