Tuesday, February 13, 2018

42,000 matches, arranged into a sphere, are ignited

4 comments:

  1. Can you imagine the time it took to put them all together?

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  2. In prisons, inmates fill lightbulbs with matchheads to make bombs.

    When they want to kill another inmate, they sneak into his cell while he's away, and screw the lightbulb into the ceiling socket.

    They may also saturate the bedding and floor with a flammable accelerant.

    Then, when the unsuspecting victim returns and flips the light switch, the bomb explodes, cutting him and setting him and his cell on fire.

    Today, I'm just a physically disabled elderly retiree, but many years ago, I was a Correctional Supervisor at the Utah State Prison.

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  3. Some people have too much time on their hands, that's why. I for instance spend my retirement time collecting and polishing brass spittoons.

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  4. When I was a funloving youth, I used to saw off CO2 cartridges & fill them with shaved matchheads, then put the cartridge into a pipe "launcher" which had a hole in the side. Ignition was by Jetex fuse, long enough for me to get behind cover.

    Those CO2 cartridges really took off; more like they exploded, but they flew about a half mile if I had the angle right.

    These matches don't seem to be as potent as the ones I used to use. I expected the whole ball to go up almost instantly, not burn leisurely across the globe. Things that make me go, "Hmmmmm."

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