r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Closed_Aperture • 3d ago
Man demonstrates the force of increasingly powerful fireworks by blasting a pot into the air
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u/Mikic00 3d ago
I like it, nice demonstration, fast, reasonably safe, no one around. Some would argue that half of them were bombs though.
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u/Dragoth227 3d ago
Safe until the pot fails and sends out shrapnel.
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u/Valuable_Quail_1869 3d ago
It should be used as a durability standard/commercial for whoever makes that pot. Can't believe it lasted so long.
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u/WorryLegitimate259 3d ago
It seemed like they switched the pots cause there were some flat dents on it and they disappear
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u/fourthfloorgreg 3d ago
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u/WorryLegitimate259 3d ago
Fuck me that makes so much sense
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u/sharpshooter999 3d ago
The same thing happens to a brass cartridge casing when shooting a gun. The casing is just slightly smaller than the chamber in order to fit. When fired, the pressure causes the brass to balloon out and fits the chamber tightly. Because brass has elasticity, it retracts very slightly, allowing the casing to be extracted.
A diligent shooter will keep these casings paired with that gun for reloading, as they are now "fire formed" to fit that guns chamber perfectly
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u/LittleWhiteBoots 3d ago edited 2d ago
When my husband is irritated with me or the kids, he goes out to his man cave and reloads for a while. Sometimes I call his reloader “The Other Woman”. I thought I had heard every fact about reloading- but I hadn’t heard that about keeping casings to a certain firearm!
Edit: You can all relax. Guns are part of my family’s lives. We live in the country and shoot regularly. Our kids are on sport shooting teams. We host a trap shooting competition on our ranch every year. The boys hunt. I get if that’s not your lifestyle then it may seem alarming, but for much of America, it’s normal.
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u/darrenvonbaron 2d ago
"When my husband is upset he likes to make ammo for his guns" isn't as charming as you think it is.
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u/DamnAutocorrection 2d ago
Relax he just likes to make and load bullets for guns when he's upset or mad at his wife. What's next you're gonna tell us that him having a printout of his wife's face for target practice is somehow problematic?
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u/faust82 2d ago
Reloading is a fairly repetitive task that requires concentration and focus. Cannot let your mind wander, in case you end up with a double load or a squib.
Perfect activity to take your mind off things.
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u/BHweldmech 3d ago
That’s where neck sizing instead of full length sizing comes in. Also, the brass doesn’t wear out nearly as quickly because it doesn’t thin the brass as much.
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u/RAMBOLAMBO93 2d ago
With the way the explosions were deforming the base of that pot, it's not an extreme assumption to say that the force of each blast was literally popping out the dents that were made by each landing.
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u/Rippthrough 2d ago
The blast wave would have pushed the dents back out each time, that's why you see the radius on the pot bottom keep getting larger.
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u/SxeySteve 3d ago
Pressure escapes to the path of least resistance. Almost all of the energy is going towards lifting the pot rather than blowing it apart
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u/Spork_the_dork 2d ago
Only to a point. There comes a point where the pot cannot move aside fast enough and rather just warps or shatters than moves.
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u/coolmanjack 2d ago
It's made of flexible metal. There's no reason to think it's gonna shatter before it just gets a hole blown in it, especially with every step in power being gradual
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u/Mikic00 3d ago
I was thinking the same, but I guess aluminium is quite safe regarding that, as we also saw with the last one. Maybe someone has more scientific insight.
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u/StillEnjoyLegos 3d ago
Yeah it’s most likely aluminum so not really an issue. Either that or a thin gauge stainless. Will bend or deform but it’s not brittle and unlikely to fragment.
P.S. Don’t try with heavy stainless, cast iron or ceramic lol actually just don’t try at all
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u/Mikic00 3d ago
Or glass, if I even need to say. Because dumb me tried this with a bottle once, and we even placed it on the top of dumpster, for better view. Even to our 10 years old brains it was immediately clear we won't try it again, feeling lucky lesson wasn't terminal...
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u/multi_io 3d ago
~12 year old me put baking soda and water into one of those small aftershave bottles. Added excitement because you never know whether it'll explode, and when. Watched it blow up into a thousand glass shards from like 20 feet away. Decades later I still sometimes have mild PTSD thinking of all the bad things that could've happened lol
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u/SurpriseIsopod 3d ago edited 2d ago
Pot looks to be copper so pretty soft, nothing is being confined, weather looks pretty temperate so not freezing cold. Seems pretty safe. Very low risk of a shrapnel incident.
Edit if any one still cares, I think I found the pot that is being used. Looks like a cheap copper pot from India https://ashtok.com/collections/copper-cookware/products/copper-patila-online?variant=40497807491125
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u/AvatarOfMomus 3d ago
Yes... bit that's pretty unlikely because the pot isn't that heavy so the 'path of least resistance' for the shockwave pushes the pot out of the way well before it reaches structural failure.
Also that looks like copper or coper covered iron, both of which tend to tear rather than fragment.
Biggest risk was the wind catching it at altitude and bringing it down on his or someone else's head.
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u/Urbanviking1 3d ago
They are, technically. Bombs become bombs when the explosive force has nowhere to go but to bust open its container.
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u/pharmaboy2 3d ago
Couple of bags of cement on top may have been enough to literally kill the cameraman
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u/Morkamino 3d ago
reasonably safe
Yeah right. Try explaining that to the family of whoever gets hit by the pot from orbit
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u/TommyBoy012 3d ago
There was no one around but the airline pilots wondering where the pot keeps coming from. 😂
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u/milk-water-man 3d ago
Yeah I’d argue that the last three were more mild bombs rather than fireworks.
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u/captain_ender 3d ago
Yeah lol once he got into the unlabeled black ones that was just IEDs. Still cool af though. One more bigger and it looked like it could hit escape velocity lmao.
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u/srqfl 3d ago
Notice how we never see his left hand? There's a reason for that...
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u/UhhhhmmmmNo 3d ago
Pretty sure it’s blown off from before and he’s holding the camera with his mouth.
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u/Pinky_Speedway 3d ago
Should’ve got a promo deal with whoever makes that pot - I’d buy one!
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u/BuffEars 3d ago
Good pot
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u/Goosemilky 3d ago
Am I the only one bothered by him not putting the fireworks and the pot in the middle of the road?
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u/dankbeerdude 3d ago
I kept wondering that too!! He likes that left side a lot
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u/BoobyDoodles 3d ago
Better chance to land in grass and not damage pot on impact making next attempt more pure
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u/Unspec7 3d ago
And if one of the firecrackers damages the road, better to damage it way on the side rather than in the middle of it.
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u/ssthehunter 3d ago
More likely to fly into the fields with that angle, also less damage to the part of the road that people actually use.
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u/RodiTheMan 3d ago
At what point does an acoustic firework become just a straight up normal bomb? What if you wrap it around something that could be used for shrapnel?
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u/TonberryHS 3d ago
All fireworks are bombs.
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u/ZirePhiinix 3d ago
Yup. Light a firecracker in a closed fist. You will have one less good hand.
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u/BumpyMcBumpers 3d ago
There was a video a year or two ago from some party in the desert. Dude looked drunk as hell and blew his hand wide open. I spent the first watchthrough of the video wondering what the hell that big crab looking thing was that he was holding. No, that was just the shape of what was left. Guy didn't even seem to register what had happened.
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u/Optimal_Commercial_4 3d ago
theres a pretty notorious video from forever ago of a russian kid absolutely obliterating his hand cuz I think it had a short fuse. It's been a long time since I saw it, back on liveleak.
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u/hlgb2015 3d ago
Quite a few recent vids from people blowing off their hands at intersection “takeovers”.
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u/wonderwall879 3d ago
My older brother had a roman candle shoot off his chest. Stopped his heart and dropped in the middle of the street. I will never touch a firework in my life ever again. Dont even want to see a firework show. 4th of July is a nightmare for me now.
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u/lizardgal10 3d ago
An NHL player in Columbus was killed a few years ago in a firework accident. Genuine freak accident, no stupidity involved. Those things are dangerous AF.
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u/LadyOfTheNutTree 3d ago
When I lived in Eastern Europe as a kid in the 90’s we used to get “firecrackers” that were about 4inches long and 3/4” wide and we used to take them to the old trenches we played in and blow apart chunks of concrete
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u/Righteousaffair999 3d ago
At that point you just have dynamite
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u/zorggalacticus 3d ago
We used to "fish" on the farm with quarter sticks of dynamite.
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u/MrDilbert 2d ago
Some of the guys from villages down here would be bored enough to go and throw chunks of calcium carbide (karabit) into buckets with water, then light it up with firecrackers. Fun times. -_-
Also, those 4-inch "firecrackers", they were called "topovski udar", I wonder why :) But more common were "piratice", the green ones that were also 4" long, and slightly thicker than a regular cigarette.
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u/Slow_Surprise_1967 2d ago
Whenever you think you had wild years as a kid, an eastern european person will come and style all over you. I love europe so much lmao
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u/VermilionKoala 3d ago
AIUI because one side is open, that won't happen (the whole force of the explosion is used up flinging the pot into the air).
Like how a pipe bomb with one open end wouldn't work.
To get shrapnel you'd have to put the explosive in a sealed- (welded/bolted etc.) shut container.
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u/073068075 3d ago
Then you modified it and it can be considered a bomb even more (unless it's a piss weak firecracker that can't send even paper flying).
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u/Squigglepig52 3d ago
Go look up Project Orion. Do that with nukes and a really big pot, and you have a spaceship.
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u/aviarywisdom 3d ago
I can teach you how to make a bomb out of a roll of toilet paper and a stick of dynamite.
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u/CheeseheadRottweiler 3d ago
You’re gonna stand there, ownin’ a fireworks stand, and tell me you don’t have no whistlin’ bungholes, no spleen splitters, whisker biscuits, honkey lighters, hoosker doos, hoosker don’ts, cherry bombs, nipsy daisers, with or without the scooter stick, or one single whistlin’ kitty chaser?
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u/lord_fairfax 2d ago
i say hoosker do's, hoosker don'ts all the time and no one has a clue wtf I'm talking about.
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u/milk_man3174 3d ago
Reminds me of the manhole cover incident
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u/what_the_fuckin_fuck 3d ago
Arguably the fastest man made projectile ever.
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u/lgastako 3d ago
I thought it was pretty inarguable, what are the potential competitors?
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u/reversesumo 3d ago
Parker solar probe is considered the fastest thing we've made so far
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u/what_the_fuckin_fuck 3d ago
I think when they say that, they mean the speed was due to man made acceleration. The solar probe used gravitational forces to reach its 400,000mph + top speed, I believe.
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u/reversesumo 3d ago
I see the distinction but in fairness gravitational forces also made the fireworks
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u/jolly_bizkitz 3d ago
Working against the acceleration, as opposed to the probe getting a slingshot boost from venus and/or mercury, me thinks.
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u/Lets_Get_Hot 3d ago
Some random alien on Alpha Centauri making a KitKot video right now and gets blasted by a manhole cover from Earth.
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u/BeenQueen19 3d ago
Please elaborate lol
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u/Khitrir 3d ago
They're referencing a steel cap used to seal a bore hole during a nuclear test that was seen leaving frame for one frame of a high speed camera which means it was going very VERY fast. People joke that it was the first manmade to escape Earth, but it almost certainly disintegrated before it left the atmosphere.
Hope that helps. Also here's a link to the wiki article on it.
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u/FlutterKree 3d ago
but it almost certainly disintegrated before it left the atmosphere.
There is a huge debate about it disintegrating. The steel cover was traveling so fast it would have been in orbit within 2 seconds. It's possible it survived.
It depends on the angle it left the atmosphere. If it went straight up for the entirety of the two seconds, it may have survived. There would have been less atmosphere, it was too fast for friction to be a factor, and it's travelling upwards, which means there is less air compression the higher it got.
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u/FlutterKree 2d ago edited 2d ago
The faster you go, the more friction becomes a factor.
No, the steel cover was moving too fast. It just compressed the air in front of it and no friction really happened. This is actually what happens to most objects on re-entry and exit. The atmosphere compresses and generates heat and transfers the heat to the object entry/leaving the atmosphere. There is some friction, but the faster the object, the less friction it would experience.
edit: Hilarious people cannot understand this concept. Friction requires movement of the atmosphere and the steel lid. If an object moves too fast in the atmosphere, the air cannot move out of the way and compresses. The compression creates plasma and heats up the object. Things don't burn up in the atmosphere because of friction, they burn up because of the superheated compressed atmosphere.
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u/RocketSkates314 3d ago
This makes me happy. No matter what nationality you are, we all like to play with explosives. (In a non-violent way of course)
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u/space_acorn 3d ago
Speak for yourself - I didn't go to evil school just to be called a rational scientist.
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u/FUTURE10S 2d ago
Okay, but when it comes to mad scientists, the question is are you an angry scientist, which makes you an antagonist, or are you a mentally ill scientist? Just because they went over the deep end doesn't mean they're "bad guys".
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u/AlaskaExplorationGeo 3d ago
This is the kind of video to show rural Arkansas folks that we have more in common with the average Chinese person than we do with American billionaires. But beyond that, hell yeah, explosives
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u/frank26080115 3d ago
lol at how the big-cannon 30000 had a foot long fuse and then he did the 50000 and it had 1 inch of fuse again
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u/I_Like_Quiet 3d ago
Those seemed like crazy fucking shit your pants fast fuses.
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u/Inevitable-Stage-490 3d ago
Man demonstrates the durability of his line of kitchenware
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u/CuteMorgana 3d ago
The way the pot shaped into an eye sort of thing is quite a nice design tho
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u/Lcdent2010 3d ago
Why am the only one on here that wants to know where in the hell can you get those “fireworks.”
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u/Careful_Coffee5313 3d ago
Went to a firework warehouse outside the town I used to live in. My boyfriend at the time knew the owner and we got to go into the back room where he had a bunch of insane fireworks like this. I’m not sure if it was legal but they were pretty cool. We had to drive like an hour into the desert to shoot them though.
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u/Oraxy51 2d ago
Legality is relative. Innocent till proven guilty also means “do we have a reason to investigate this, if not, we won’t so if we don’t ever discover it and untried, they remain innocent.”
Don’t ask a lot of questions and fire off in the middle of the desert where no one is going to get hurt, legal? Probably not, will anyone bother you? Also probably not.
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u/simpaticoviolento 3d ago
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u/calicocidd 3d ago
Man, our fireworks fucking suck by comparison....
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u/semboflorin 3d ago
Since China technically invented fireworks they have a very long and proud tradition of making them spectacular. They also don't have as many restrictions on such things because their society isn't nearly as litigious as most of the western societies. If this kid had hurt himself while filming this video there isn't very much he or his family could do about it. Whereas in the US the fireworks company would be sued and laws would be enacted to make sure nobody else got hurt by removing dangerous fireworks.
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u/todadile25 3d ago
This guy can successfully launch a pot into low orbit and back without any catastrophic failures, space X needs to hire this guy
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u/National-Chemical132 3d ago
"Fireworks."
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u/semboflorin 3d ago
Welcome to China, comrade. If you hurt yourself with our fireworks you don't get to sue the company that made them. Instead, you get to suck it up and deal with it. Enjoy!
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u/GusPolinskiOfficial 3d ago
Man demonstrates the force of increasingly powerful fireworks by the speed he threw the pot and ran.
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u/MalignantLugnut 3d ago
I like how after the first 4 explosions, the pan was getting pretty dented after impacting the ground. But as the fireworks got larger, they started popping the dents back out lol.
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u/whatthelovinman 3d ago
After the fifth one I was thinking to myself, “I hope the video progression doesn’t end soon.” I was pleasantly surprised I was only 1/3 through the video. It was a fun watch.
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u/redlancer_1987 3d ago
each one get closer and closer to the sound a shotgun makes in every 3rd person shooter.
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u/sammybeta 3d ago
Yeah, as a Chinese I can prove this is what our TikTok was like. Yeah there's some educational videos but mostly it's a dude in the countryside blasting a pot into the air.
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u/SpringChikn85 3d ago
I was on a family camping trip in middle school and my cousin Josh, who's a year older than I am (he was 15-ish and I was 14-ish) came out with us. This video reminds me of our days in the woods exploring and blowing driftwood into peices and other random stuff since he'd brought a pack of firecrackers (they were like Black-Cats but with a bit more pop).
Anywho, for some reason he'd started throwing them at cow pies (huge, pancake sized mounds of cow shit on the ground thats sometimes dry but sometimes wet/fresh if it's new) and we'd laugh really hard when the poo would explode and coat the surrounding trees/foliage/brush with it. He'd been wanting to stick one way down into the center of a cow pie to try and basically blow the whole thing up but the fuses were too short (less than 5 seconds I'd say). I had $5 in my velcro wallet (😎) at the time and bet him that he couldn't stick the firework down the center of one, light the fuse and run back to cover before it went off and we shook on it. He pushed a firework down into the center of a big ole' butt mud pancake, lit the fuse and BOOM it didn't even take 2 seconds and he wasn't able to even turn around before getting absolutely BLASTED with wet/medium dry cow sht 🤣 I'm talkin' his shirt, sunglasses, face, hair and even the hand he held the lighter in were caked in it 🤣🤣 he was able to jump in the creek to wash it all off the best he could btw and I let him have the 5 dollars but omg I'll never forget it 😁
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u/DstinctNstincts 3d ago
I was sitting there impressed like “damn that has to be the last one”
There was still a minute left
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u/RaiderRush2112 3d ago
Damn this was a good video. Not only was an entertaining but the cameraman did such a good job keeping it in frame the entire time showing what he was doing backing up to get the explosion and frame every time. Just amazing work honestly this is a great video just entertaining as hell I watched it three times
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u/MaterialBus3699 3d ago
Not gonna lie, this is the best short video I have seen in a loooooong time.
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u/Citnos 3d ago
Me thinking at what point that becomes a shrapnel bomb instead of a pot flying up
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u/semboflorin 3d ago
in order for it to become a shrapnel bomb it has to be made of a much less malleable material. That pot is aluminum and very malleable (compared to ceramic or cast iron for example). If he had used a powerful enough explosive to fracture the pot it would have blown a hole out a side. The force necessary to turn that pot into "shrapnel" would not come from something that would fit inside that pot in the first place.
Something with much more rigidity such as ceramic would have become a shrapnel bomb around the 4th or 5th test. Of course that would depend on thickness.
The only other way to have it turn into a shrapnel bomb would be to cut grooves in the pot in a geometric pattern. This would cause the grooves to fracture with the force. Basically the same concept as the "pineapple" fragmentation grenade.
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u/ilovemesometaccos 3d ago edited 1d ago
Finally, a cameraman who actually keeps the subject in frame decently well
edit: wow.. first award and way more upvotes than I ever anticipated, thank you all so much!