[TheForge] Fun with thermite anyone?

[Jerry Smith]

DB,

Thank you for sharing that. Now lets talk about about
how to build nuclear triggers :)

Jerry

--- Demon Buddha <osan at netlabs.net> wrote:

> 
> 
> John Husvar wrote:
> 
> > Or you could just do as the old A.C. Williams
> plant in Ravenna, OH did once:
> > Let magnesium grinding dust accumulate and catch.
> Took out a fair portion of
> > the plant and all the employees on the grinding
> floor. Ain't thermite, but
> > the difference to the employees was negligible.
> 
> 	Ow...
> 
> 	When I was 14 or so, I was quite fascinated with
> thermit and napalm.  I 
> made my own and used to blow up/incinerate stuff
> with it.  One day a 
> small blob of burning napalm alighted upon the palm
> of my right hand. 
> Having that much pain and not being able to make the
> burning mass let go 
> of you is a study in penultimate frustration. 
> Burned a hole right to 
> the first knuckle of the index finger.  I could
> actually see the tendon. 
>   It took a long time to heal and I still have a
> slight hint of it in 
> scar.  Taught me serious respect for all of that
> stuff and gave me a 
> vivid sense of empathy for all those people in Viet
> Nam that survived 
> the burns.  I'm not sure what sort of deranged mind
> would consider such 
> things as weapons.  Huh?  Oh, right.  Never mind.
> 
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