MetaFilter posts tagged with explosions

Explosions at Boston Marathon Finish Line

knile — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:12:38 -0800

"At the finish line of the Boston Marathon, two explosions have left multiple people injured." via ParadisePost. CBS Boston has a live video feed up of the finish line.

ba boom

special-k — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 14:10:01 -0800

Dumt & Farligt blow things up again. In slow motion HD. Previously

"Oh? Is it a dud?" Least favorite words when working with explosives.

quin — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 09:16:16 -0800

Slow Motion Video of Fireworks Exploding Inside Buckets Full of Paint [slyt] [via]

\mm/

klangklangston — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 17:45:59 -0800

Metal band Red Fang gets $5000 to make a video.

Happy ID4 day!

Artw — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 09:58:05 -0800

"We lc ome to Ea rt h!"

July 4 is coming up!

twoleftfeet — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 23:38:08 -0800

What happens when a fireworks factory catches on fire? This happened recently in Russia, but it's happened before in Germany and England and the Netherlands and Thailand and Dubai and Denmark. Generally fireworks factories take precautions to prevent this kind of thing. The Zambelli fireworks factory tour explains some of these precautions. American Fireworks, in Hudson, Ohio, has another tour. They even make fireworks in China! If you can't trust other people to make your fireworks, you can always make your own.

That blowed up real good

Horace Rumpole — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:48:49 -0800

Six minutes of glorious stupidity captured in super slo-mo HD, courtesy of the Danish TV show Dumt & Farligt. (via Kottke)

Meowcraft

atomicmedia — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 11:14:38 -0800

Minecraft, cats and explosions...what more do you need?

"You kind of expect it to be quite so... WOW!!"

quin — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:48:02 -0800

Chemical Reactions. Four minutes of the best moments of stuff burning, breaking, freezing, exploding, melting, and generally reacting in interesting ways. For those looking for more context, these are the highlights: 0.00 Sulfur Barking Dog 0.02 Hydrogen 0.03 Apollo Lunar Lift-Off Chemistry 0.06 Pete's Coloured Flames 0.11 Magnesium 0.12 Cake Blowing Up 0.17 White Phosphorus 0.20 Helium Balloon cooled with Liquid Nitrogen 0.24 Liquid Oxygen 0.27 Cokes Cans in Acid and Base 0.35 Cheeseburger in HCl 0.36 Aqua Regia dissolves gold 0.39 Fluorine and cotton wool 0.40 Smashing Liquid Nitrogen Pumpkin 0.49 Phosphorus 0.50 Caesium (first go) [previously] 0.57 Magnesium in CO2 1.01 Krakatoa Tubes 1.05 Pumpkin Thermite 1.09 Pete's Coloured Flames again 1.25 Sulphuric Acid and Sugar 1.29 Fluorine and Steel Wool 1.35 Fluorine and Charcoal 1.37 Fluorine and Cotton Wool 1.39 Hydrochloric Acid 1.30 Carbon Dioxide under a coin 1.49 Musket Firing 1.59 Silver Flashes 2.01 More Fluorine 2.06 Potassium 2.13 Hypergolic Reaction 2.16 Chlorine 2.21 Carbon Dioxide 2.30 Gun Cotton 2.35 Creme Eggs [previously] 2.46 Caesium 2.49 Sulfur 2.53 Iron/Thermite 3.11 Crystal Garden 3.16 Silver Cylinder 3.20 Coke cans in Acid 3.26 Crystal garden 3.30 Fire Water 3.33 Hydrogen The full list can be found here. [via]

Things go BOOM!

EvaDestruction — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:33:08 -0800

Devastating Explosions, at the Touch of a Button

LET'S BLOW SOME SHIT UP

fearfulsymmetry — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 04:41:49 -0800

The Formula for Complete and Utter BAYHEM or, How Michael Bay has Made Billions in Box Offices Worldwide. SLInfographic (the last graph is particularly depressing)

“Did... did that tree just blow up?” Rainbow Dash asked, confused.

JHarris — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:05:17 -0800

It was a beautiful day in Ponyville. The sun was shining; the birds were singing. Ponies big and small cantered throughout the town, whickering and neighing merrily as they went about their business.
Suddenly, there was a huge explosion!
“Oh my god, that was a huge explosion!” yelled Twilight Sparkle, staring in shock and horror at the massive fireball rising from the center of town. Hundreds of ponies ran screaming from the burning wreckage of the Town Hall. Some were covered in soot, and limped as they streamed past her, desperate to escape the burning hell behind them.
“Yo Twi’, you see dat shiz?” said Spike, her jive-talking baby dragon sidekick. He stood on her back, one claw wrapped in her mane while the other casually removed a set of shutter-style plastic sunglasses. You know, like the ones Kanye West is always wearing.
Michael Bay presents My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. (It's fanfiction, but readable without knowledge of the show or fondness for pastel-colored horses.) Equestria Daily post on the story, although it's a bit inside baseball. There is a part 2, which really requires knowledge of the show unfortunately. BTW, if you read part two and are given to wonder what "shipping" is, well, I think you really don't want to know what shipping is. Posted because, well, what the hell.

Exploding...

shakespeherian — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 17:05:43 -0800

The Michael Bayifier. Turn any picture into a Michael Bay picture.

Light Grenades

WinnipegDragon — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 08:20:01 -0800

Photographer/Filmmaker Freddie Wong and friends blow the crap (YoutTube) out of each other with light painting. The making of and more from Freddie at his blog. via David Hobby at Strobist.

DECAPITATED HORSE C-C-C-C-COMBOOOOOO

mightygodking — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 16:48:25 -0800

Flash Friday: remember Miami Shark? That awesome game where you played a shark and the shark totally destroyed everything in its path? The makers of that fine game have now given us Sydney Shark, and marsupials, parachutists, aliens, and a windsurfer looking suspiciously like John Kerry will never be the same again.

Atomic Tests

Wolfdog — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 07:20:09 -0800

Atomic Test Archive. Histories of atomic testing by country, with video and photographic archives. The Information Films page is interesting: One can envision 50's dad smugly admiring his tidy yard through freshly vapourised retinas. Also: the one-hour declassified Ivy Mike film at the internet archive.

With a Boom and a Bang and a Oops

Xurando — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 15:37:40 -0800

Controlled avalanche explosions: Right way and wrong way.

"The list of people who were blown up or poisoned while trying to do so is impressive"

scrump — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:16:55 -0800

There are many exciting chemicals. These are the ones that Derek Lowe won't work with. Derek Lowe authors the "In The Pipeline" blog on Corante, and writes primarily about the pharmaceutical industry. However, the subset of entries marked "Things I Won't Work With" delves entertainingly into the realm of substances like dioxygen difluoride (tl;dr: it explodes. A lot.)

Paging sharksmatter...?

Decimask — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:53:25 -0800

You are a shark. You swim off the coast of Florida. You dive in and out of the water to smash boats, and you can pull jumbo jets out of the sky WITH YOUR TEETH. You are Miami Shark. Via Rockpapershotgun. Yes, it is as awesome as it sounds.

If you found a dead whale, how would you dispose of the body?

Salamandrous — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:56:42 -0800

When whales die: Yesterday, a 20-30 foot whale washed up a shore in New Jersey. Officials are going to deal with it by cutting it up into small parts and burying it. In previous incidents, officials tried to explode it into bits that were meant to fall in the ocean and get eaten by seagulls, but that didn't work out [YT] so well, especially for nearby spectators. Even if you want to let it decompose naturally, you have to be careful for spontaneous explosions due to gassy buildup. Especially when transporting it in busy city streets. Oops. When whales die in the ocean, on the other hand, their bodies eventually fall to the sea floor and can start mini ecosystems, where female pink glowstick-like sea worms that harbor the male pink glowstick sea worms inside their bodies live, eat whale bones, and propagate. (Previously on Metafilter: Taiwan explosion)

Best. Babysitter. Ever.

1f2frfbf — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:40:37 -0800

Andrew W.K. (yt): Musician (yt), Motivational speaker (nyt) and now, kids show host (auto-playing video). via

This site has everything!

boo_radley — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:37:40 -0800

Explosions and boobs. (NSWF)

Wait... No Pirate Vs. Ninja?!

Bageena — Tue, 05 May 2009 03:09:13 -0800

Haven't you always secretly wondered what would happen if a ninja accidentally stumbled into, say, Bill and Ted's time traveling Phone Booth and ended up somewhere around 7th century BC, only to come face-to-face with a feisty Spartan? Have you not pondered what would happen if you locked up an Apache with a Gladiator inside some sort of 21st century battle dome? Are you frustrated because you feel like there's nobody doing proper scientific studies to see what would happen when you pit two historically violent warriors that could have never actually met in real life? Worry no more people - I present to you Spike TV's newest offering - Deadliest Warrior! The show basically goes like this; you take two crazy fighters who, previous to the show, have only been pitted against one another in heated debates between young men in line for the midnight showing of the newest X-Men movie (or really awesome drunk people). The show's 'Host, Simulation Consultant, and Blogger', Max Geiger brings in experts representing each warrior. The experts bring in weapons that are historically accurate which are then tested on a variety of dummies that are stuffed with SCIENCE! The data from said SCIENCE! all goes into a computer simulation based on an unreleased commercial game engine by these guys. Not just the SCIENCE!, which is actually pretty cool (ballistics gel, pig carcasses, high speed photography), but also, as Max aptly put it: "The simulation's inputs include real world scientific data gathered by one of my co-hosts, Geoff Desmoulin, who is getting his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering. Our number crunching is balanced out by Dr. Armand Dorian, an ER doctor who keeps our work firmly grounded in the actual trauma our tests cause." The reviews are in! Variety seems to feel it might be possibly the stupidest show ever, appealing only to the lowest common denominator! Newsarama was a little nicer, pointing out that there are some people on the show trying to make it as scientific as it can possibly be, while also having a great time. Either way, do you care? Don't you want to watch a Viking fight a Samurai? Or a Pirate against a Knight? You can apparently only watch the latest episode on the website, here. Also, looking forward on the Wikipedia, it does look like the show might slip-slide from whatever tenuous grasp they have on ideas for fights as they start doing shows about William Wallace versus Shaka Zulu or finally, the IRA versus the Taliban. I have only one thought. How could they have NOT had a Pirate versus Ninja episode? FAIL!

Atomic explosions causing evolutionary changes? I'm in.

schyler523 — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:25:26 -0800

Can't wait till Friday Flash Fun: Atomic Kaos 2 Orbits is a puzzle-ish game where you are trying to remove all the atoms from the playing field through a chain of explosions.

Events That Touched Our Ancestors' Lives

netbros — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 07:36:19 -0800

GenDisasters is a genealogy site, compiling information on the historic disasters, events, and tragic accidents of Canada and the U.S. that our ancestors endured, as well as, information about their life and death. Search is quite extensive and navigation is broken down by disaster type, including earthquakes, hurricanes, mining explosions, and dozens of other categories. You can also choose by state within the USA, for example Arizona, or province within Canada, i.e. New Brunswick. Finally, you may also browse a timeline that begins as early as 1755 and includes information as current as the Swan's Island fire in July of this year. Members are encouraged to report and add information to the ever-growing database.