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Opportunity to come clean
"Wizard of Woodstock" wrote in message
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On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:09:33 -0700 (PDT), wrote:
On Apr 28, 11:03 am, Wizard of Woodstock wrote:
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 07:22:19 -0400, BAR wrote:
Wizard of Woodstock wrote:
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:34:58 -0700, "Mike"
wrote:
Oh, and explosions - the bigger the better.
Come to my place for the 4th! Illegal (in CA), and VERY good.
Shhhhhhh....
Heh - I just came back from SC - I got some stuff that...well, let's
just say it's in the artillery class. :)
My county will arrest you if they catch you with sparklers.
Pansies. Sparklers?
Unbelievable. Hell, when I was a kid, we used to chuck 1/8 sticks of
dynamite around like fire crackers - nobody ever got hurt. Maybe we
were just smarter than the average kid now days. :)
Had a friend who's dad was a pyrotechnics guy as a hobby! He'd make us
some cool stuff! Made me a small bomb once, and I chucked it in my
uncle's old cast steel concrete mixer! The end result was lots of
pieces of the barrel all over the place, and an ass kicking that I
received!
Ever see that episode of Mythbusters where they loaded up a cement
truck with 3 tons of HMX?
There was nothing, and I mean nothing, left of that truck. :)
Last week, they did a thing about making diamonds and went to the
University of New Mexico School of Mining Engineering - did something
similar with RDX - about 1500 lbs of the stuff in a tall tube.
The shock wave was simply amazing.
One of my favorite TV shows - 'splosions galore!!
Coworker about 40 years ago, his dad was a powder rat for Kennecott copper
mine in Nevada. He said you never ran after lighting a fuse. If you
screwed up, you could not run fast enough to escape. They mostly used
electric detonators, but he had been doing in a long time when I met him.
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