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Mike, I do believe the Pun Jar has become incensed and plans a lecture for you, chapter and verse.

AmriloJim wrote:Mike, I do believe the Pun Jar has become incensed and plans a lecture for you, chapter and verse.

Will there be Tibetan monks and chanting involved?

Hansontoons wrote:

AmriloJim wrote:Mike, I do believe the Pun Jar has become incensed and plans a lecture for you, chapter and verse.

Will there be Tibetan monks and chanting involved?

No, but there will be self flagellation with a cat-o-nines...

Nun-Chucks? Looks like dangerous habits to me.
*whistles innocently*

AnotherFairportfan wrote:...or attacked it with these:

No.

Dave wrote:Next time, try a cryogenic gel of Everclear, calcium acetate, and liquid oxygen (street code-name "Thermonuclear Sterno"). It burns off cleanly.

OOOOH~



Thanks for the new recipe! I wonder if I could make that work with a room-temperature oxidizer... Perhaps KNO3?

...If I see a huge explosion coming from the south, I'll know what happened.

Thanks.

GlytchMeister wrote:

Dave wrote:Next time, try a cryogenic gel of Everclear, calcium acetate, and liquid oxygen (street code-name "Thermonuclear Sterno"). It burns off cleanly.

OOOOH~



Thanks for the new recipe! I wonder if I could make that work with a room-temperature oxidizer... Perhaps KNO3?

The calcium acetate requires the cold temperature to gel

Dammit.

A clean-burning gel would be great so useful...

Actually, from what I've read, calcium acetate will gel alcohol at room temperature... it's what's used in Sterno. The reason I specified cryogenic was so that it could use liquid oxygen as the oxidizer, and get a clean burn.

I suppose that you could make up a slurry of ethanol, KNO3 (very finely ground) and a gelling agent, and get it to burn nicely at room temperature. However, I think it would leave a residue of potassium hydroxide... not the best seasoning for cooked alien octopoid sushi. That's the advantage of LOX... no residue.

If you don't mind residue and seasoning, you could use all sorts of interesting hypergolic mixtures. Maybe the classic mix of hydrazine and butanethiol that some madman tried during the days of rocketeering... now that would be an industrial-strength barn fart generator for sure!

Oh dear... I think that other thread just leaked over here, a little...

Using pure carbon chains ought to do relatively well for you. Gasoline leaves residue because of all the additives. The worst you're going to get from a pure carbon chain (methane, butane, etc...) is some carbon left over. And hey, who doesn't like to smoke their food every so often?

I'm trying to remember the gelling agent I used with propane to make an improvised (but surprisingly clean-burning) napalm...

ShneekeyTheLost wrote:Using pure carbon chains ought to do relatively well for you. Gasoline leaves residue because of all the additives. The worst you're going to get from a pure carbon chain (methane, butane, etc...) is some carbon left over. And hey, who doesn't like to smoke their food every so often?

I'm trying to remember the gelling agent I used with propane to make an improvised (but surprisingly clean-burning) napalm...

...but propane doesn't exist at room temperature as a liquid... Maybe you're thinking of a different fuel?

lake_wrangler wrote:Oh dear... I think that other thread just leaked over here, a little...

Well, considering we have such a high concentration of mad scientist hobbyists, ex-military, and pyromaniacs, it's a wonder we don't end up making every single thread degenerate into "hmm, how else can we glass half a continent?"

GlytchMeister wrote:Well, considering we have such a high concentration of mad scientist hobbyists, ex-military, and pyromaniacs, it's a wonder we don't end up making every single thread degenerate into "hmm, how else can we glass half a continent?"

Actually, I was referring to Dave's comment:

Dave wrote:If you don't mind residue and seasoning, you could use all sorts of interesting hypergolic mixtures. Maybe the classic mix of hydrazine and butanethiol that some madman tried during the days of rocketeering... now that would be an industrial-strength barn fart generator for sure!

I even went so far as to include the barn fart thread name, in my comment...

lake_wrangler wrote:Oh dear... I think that other thread just leaked over here, a little...

Is it bad that I could be classified as all three if I weren't so damn lazy?

Police Find Meth Lab Under Walmart Parking Lot

[i]The Daily Beast[/i] wrote:Police in Amherst, N.Y., reportedly found a meth lab under the parking lot of a Walmart superstore this week. According to Det. Lt. JoAnn DiNoto said, the department “stumbled upon” the narcotics at the end of a drainage pipe, wide enough for a 6-foot-tall person to walk through, underneath the store lot.

The lab included a makeshift table with the solvents necessary to make methamphetamines.

“There was no danger to the community or Walmart shoppers or contaminating water source,” DiNoto assured.

Yup. They're like weeds. They pop up all over the damn place.

Too bad we can't just beat the living crap out of those who would set up these labs.

Alkarii wrote:Too bad we can't just beat the living crap out of those who would set up these labs.

There are better ways to do it...