Never, NEVER use a glass container unless you're intending to seriously injure someone. While not "safe", the thin plastic of a soda bottle has a lot less mass, will not likely shatter into slivers, and the flying bits will decelerate a lot quicker than glass will.
Hollow out the fruit of choice (google and youtube searches will reveal many video clips of people blowing up watermelons) and make a hole just big enough to completely encase the bottle.
AFTER having hollowed out the fruit, place a bunch of chunks of dry ice in the bottle, add water.
Cap the bottle, and QUICKLY put the fruit over the bottle and move away. Don't go near the thing until it goes *FOOM*.
The amount of time it takes to go off will be related to the amount of dry ice that's submerged in liquid and how much of the bottle is "empty" (or full of air). But it's generally really difficult to predict. The one we used to blow up a watermelon last year took about 15 minutes to go off.
NOTE: Technically, making a dry ice bomb counts as making a bomb and could get you either a felony or misdemeanor conviction. In some states, however, the definitions and laws are worded such that combustion is required to be defined as a bomb, making a loophole.
They can also explode very quickly, 10-15 seconds. Depends much on the plastic container, thickness, structural ridges etc. I continue to gather data on this with my physics class. Boom = good schooling!
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Date: 2008-11-02 05:27 am (UTC)*smirk*
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Date: 2008-11-02 09:43 pm (UTC)Corset. Blade. Cleavage. My higher mental processes sort of ground to a halt much past that... :>
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Date: 2008-11-02 04:13 pm (UTC)Other comments on photos from the party:
Priss from "Blade Runner" was cool.
Someone should have brought dry ice to the party, and used that, water, and a soda bottle to blow up a pumpkin.
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Date: 2008-11-02 05:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-02 06:45 pm (UTC)Never, NEVER use a glass container unless you're intending to seriously injure someone. While not "safe", the thin plastic of a soda bottle has a lot less mass, will not likely shatter into slivers, and the flying bits will decelerate a lot quicker than glass will.
Hollow out the fruit of choice (google and youtube searches will reveal many video clips of people blowing up watermelons) and make a hole just big enough to completely encase the bottle.
AFTER having hollowed out the fruit, place a bunch of chunks of dry ice in the bottle, add water.
Cap the bottle, and QUICKLY put the fruit over the bottle and move away. Don't go near the thing until it goes *FOOM*.
The amount of time it takes to go off will be related to the amount of dry ice that's submerged in liquid and how much of the bottle is "empty" (or full of air). But it's generally really difficult to predict. The one we used to blow up a watermelon last year took about 15 minutes to go off.
NOTE: Technically, making a dry ice bomb counts as making a bomb and could get you either a felony or misdemeanor conviction. In some states, however, the definitions and laws are worded such that combustion is required to be defined as a bomb, making a loophole.
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Date: 2008-11-02 11:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-03 05:32 am (UTC)I was very hot. James thought I was hot, too. He is a keeper.
Pris is the person to whom this journal belongs. :)
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Date: 2008-11-03 05:34 am (UTC)Also, that lens cap did not in fact belong to James.
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