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Think you used enough Tannerite, there, Butch?
The quick and the dead.
The first guy to ever be an artist.
"Dog Identifies As Genderfluid To Avoid Getting Neutered".
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I've always thought that flying fridge door was CGI, because it flies too damn straight to be real. Air resistance would have caused it to start tumbling long before it reached the tree (which would have been even more dangerous).
That may be; I just think it's a neat video. And it put me in mind of a story I read about a guy who placed some Tannerite on an old riding lawnmower and stood too close when he shot it, causing the mower to explode. The man wound up losing a leg, I believe.
I dunno, the jury is still out, for me. Have you seen the full Utube video? If that is CGI, it's some good CGI. I thought the door's flight seemed strange, till I realized it had been fire formed into a bit of a airfoil, which may be why it appears to 'take off' a few feet into it's flight path. And that also keeps it from starting to tumble immediately.
Anyway, it doesn't look like a bunch of NASA engineers having fun on the weekend. Those guys probably wouldn't know how to turn on a calculator.
And yes, I think I would like to live in a world where Pape R. Towl is a marriage counselor for married tp.
John Pinette is genuinely funny, and I agree with his assessment of Phoenix. We spent a week there a couple of years ago. It was 90 degrees. In April.
Explosives will do odd things, even in the hands of experts. And in the hands of novices ... ... hoo doggie! Run for cover. There's a reason why respectable, well run gun ranges prohibit or limit the use of Tannerite and similar products.
And while my blasting cap crimping days are long past ... ... ...
Tannerite is a low velocity explosive, which means the resulting shockwave is spread out over time. Prilled ammonium nitrate is a similar explosive -- that's used to break up the ground in quarries (and was the explosive used in the Oklahoma City bombing). Black powder is yet another example. Such explosives "push" rather than "cut" (plastic explosive are an example of high velocity explosives).
The fridge door was the path of least resistance for the shockwave, while the body of the appliance acted (somewhat) to contain and direct the force of the explosion. In a very loose sense, the fridge body was a one-shot "cannon", and the door was a "cannon ball". More accurately, the arrangement was a directional mine, such as a claymore, or one of the sophisticated (and devastingly effective) IEDs seen in Iraq.
A little bit of thought on the part of the shooter (yeah, I know) would have resulted in the door facing another direction, aimed at the ground, or possibly strapping the door shut. Or even putting the set up into a hole, and not on level ground. Better yet, take the fridge to the dump.
At least he had the sense to stand behind a tree.
Good science stuff, Jeff!
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