Mine didn’t show us much explosive stuff, but my favourite was bubbling hydrogen into detergent to produce a froth which made an extremely loud bang when lit.
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Flammable fungus sex lube seems…unwise.
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I almost studied materials science because I didn’t have good enough grades for the major I actually wanted and the entry requirements for MS were really low. I took my high school exams again and studied linguistics, but sometimes I think I should have gone with the materials science major.
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Dude, I get that feeling whenever I talk with a scientist. What am I doing fixing people’s computers?
But I guess that’s the whole thing of Doing What’s Fun, versus Doing What You Do Well.
I was just terrible in school and worse in science classes, mainly because I couldn’t document my experiments well enough. I may be ADHD, but I can’t multitask for shit. So I ended up doing a neat experiment with a blank logbook pretty much every time.
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Yes, full body condoms didn’t come into fashion until decades later. It is as if the olds pranked mightily.
And Mark’s on to it. Honestly, I couldn’t make up how leading http://beefmagazine.com/mag/beef_clubbing_clubmoss is as an URL and now I need to send in illustration proofs to improve an industry magazine I’m pretty sure is a weird bovine-derived foods protected industry interest. Crooked timber served dry.
In other news, it’s a fern rather than moss, though New Zealand has a helpful page for killing African Club Moss with…not carbohydrates, surprisingly…glyphosate.
I was hoping to cobble up a shabby temporary space elevator decorated mightily with the stuff, flaming each season in one biome (side of building, then) at a time to keep itself carbon neutral rather than overheavy.
http://www.herbco.com/c-244-club-moss.aspx …then again, that seems to be the leaves rather than the spores, but your worries about Alzheimer’s and arthritis and ibd (or not) can go away with teatime?
Having visited that, and its practice of making clubmoss one word that doesn’t carry through to Etsy (where they’ll sell you a plant), please imagine the nice no-bathing-please-we-have-healthy-skin-biomes people doing flaming magic tricks and growing fabulous elven fern clothes over the month, because spores. (Three finger swipe-right to get your Groot on?)
So instead I’m just going to rebuild a bespoke Italian village to have intrinsic fire safety? Not actually having bought such an option, maybe not.
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Lots of powdered things will make impressive flames if you blow them into the air so you have a nice fuel/air mix. This is why grain elevators blow up. Flour can be used as a demolition explosive. (-:
The thing about lycopodium is not just that it’s finely divided, but the spores themselves have a microscopic structure that looks like an open sponge - TONS of surface area, but very little actual mass, so you get a big, flashy, rapid flame with almost no real thermal pulse:
Much, much safer than flour. (-:
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I love watching Ayode in Travel Man, he looks like a sincerely fun “not fun” person to be around.
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It seems like a very specialist life cycle…
Create spores
Spores get set on fire by stage magician and areosolised
Spores, now activated by heat get distributed onto clothing of auidence
spores get distributed to several locations.
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Or stained glass windows.
Here is the synthesis for nanoscale gold.
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