Question
mcdo...@holmes.ipfw.indiana.edu
I would like to know if anyone knows about exploding light blubs if they
are ghost related or not my sister had a light blub explode in her bedroom
a couple of days ago when she was getting ready for school. If anyone
knows about this subject please email me back. Thanks!:)
Lee Taylor
It's rare but not necessarily ghost related.
The filament inside the bulb is glowing basically because it's trying to
burn in a vacuum. With no air there's no combustion. However, if you
crack the glass or base just slightly and let air inside, the tungsten
will flash into vapor when heated (on). Sometimes this is violent
enough to shatter the glass.
In fact, there's an incendiary/assassination trick using this tungsten
reaction and about 2 ounces of gasoline.
--
Lee Taylor
Independence Hall http://www.tgka.com/
In support of Liberty, Freedom, and Independence through self reliance
and education.
JFranco952
>The filament inside the bulb is glowing basically because it's trying to
>burn in a vacuum. With no air there's no combustion. However, if you
>crack the glass or base just slightly and let air inside, the tungsten
>will flash into vapor when heated (on). Sometimes this is violent
>enough to shatter the glass.
>
>In fact, there's an incendiary/assassination trick using this tungsten
>reaction and about 2 ounces of gasoline.
Now that you have basically explained how to accomplish extremly dangerous
"incendiary/assassination trick", did you even give any thought as to how many
coconuts that read this newsgroup may actually try to duplicate this injuring
themselves or possibly others?
Issac
Lee's analysis is most astute.
I wanted to add only that it would require an incredibly subtle crack or
break to facilitate the implosion as Lee described it without causing the
bulb to implode immediately, I think.
Oh, and the old assassin's trick works much better with fast black powder
than gasoline. Gas is surprisingly difficult to ignite, particularly with
electrical means. ;-)
Regards,
Issac
Director, SPIRIT
http://www.ghosthunter.org
Anonymous
Maybe we can get a few new ghost that way.
Jamie
Rene
nob...@REPLAY.COM (Anonymous) wrote:
>> Now that you have basically explained how to accomplish extremly dangerous
>> "incendiary/assassination trick", did you even give any thought as to how many
>> coconuts that read this newsgroup may actually try to duplicate this injuring
>> themselves or possibly others?
>>
>Maybe we can get a few new ghost that way.
>Jamie
LOL! Oh, so now we're recruiting?? :D
Rene
Lee Taylor
JFranco952 wrote:
>
> >The filament inside the bulb is glowing basically because it's trying to
> >burn in a vacuum. With no air there's no combustion. However, if you
> >crack the glass or base just slightly and let air inside, the tungsten
> >will flash into vapor when heated (on). Sometimes this is violent
> >enough to shatter the glass.
> >
> >In fact, there's an incendiary/assassination trick using this tungsten
> >reaction and about 2 ounces of gasoline.
>
> "incendiary/assassination trick", did you even give any thought as to how many
> coconuts that read this newsgroup may actually try to duplicate this injuring
> themselves or possibly others?
Those who are likely to use that trick would already know it. I learned
it clear back in grade school. By the time the US Army got around to
telling me about it, I think everyone with me in basic training already
knew far worse. When you were in high school, didn't you know a kid who
got in trouble making explosives in the chem lab?
ELABETH
>JFranco952 wrote:
>>
>> >The filament inside the bulb is glowing basically because it's trying to
>> >burn in a vacuum. With no air there's no combustion. However, if you
>> >crack the glass or base just slightly and let air inside, the tungsten
>> >will flash into vapor when heated (on). Sometimes this is violent
>> >enough to shatter the glass.
>> >
>> >In fact, there's an incendiary/assassination trick using this tungsten
>> >reaction and about 2 ounces of gasoline.
>>
>> Now that you have basically explained how to accomplish extremly dangerous
>> "incendiary/assassination trick", did you even give any thought as to how
>many
>> coconuts that read this newsgroup may actually try to duplicate this
>injuring
>> themselves or possibly others?
then Lee Taylor wrote::::::
>
>Those who are likely to use that trick would already know it. I learned
>it clear back in grade school. By the time the US Army got around to
>telling me about it, I think everyone with me in basic training already
>knew far worse. When you were in high school, didn't you know a kid who
>got in trouble making explosives in the chem lab?
>
>--
He's right about that one.. I learned that in the seventh grade. This was also
around the time i learned to make pipe bombs..but then again, I AM from
Northwest Arkansas and we have more than our share or survivalist
anti-government types.
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"OK, everybody in this room who's telekenetic,
raise my hand"
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Troy Hooks
JFranco952 <jfran...@aol.com> wrote in article
dangerous
> "incendiary/assassination trick", did you even give any thought as to how
many
> coconuts that read this newsgroup may actually try to duplicate this
injuring
> themselves or possibly others?
>
Well, it's not like it's hard to find or think of. It was in the movie "The
Longest Yard", for instance.
Way Of The Ray
In article <01bd0284$97b370e0$239dc2d0@default>, capta...@pagesz.net
says...
youth, I learned to make explosives, from reading Tom Robbin's novel:
"Still Life With Woodpecker". An excellent book, from the author of,
"Even Cheerleaders Get The Blues". Still Life..., was hardly a
survivalist's manual, more a work of quirky fiction.
Any ways, in my bomb making period, one of the explosives, I concocted
was a aluminum reefer bomb. I made it in my ice cream-cooler bucket,
and tried to set it off in my garage. A big cloud of lung-scarring,
aluminum hydroxide promulgated forth from that bucket; and I ran out of
that garage so fast, Carl Lewis wouldn't have caught me.
Ray
Way Of The Ray
In article <MPG.ef388eba...@nntp.netcruiser>, way...@ix.netcom.com
says...
> In article <01bd0284$97b370e0$239dc2d0@default>, capta...@pagesz.net
> says...
> > JFranco952 <jfran...@aol.com> wrote in article
> > > Now that you have basically explained how to accomplish extremly
> > dangerous
> > > "incendiary/assassination trick", did you even give any thought as to how
> > many
> > > coconuts that read this newsgroup may actually try to duplicate this
> > injuring
> > > themselves or possibly others?
> > >
> >
> > Well, it's not like it's hard to find or think of. It was in the movie "The
> > Longest Yard", for instance.
> >
> >
> Exactly........... Bomb making knowledge is everywhere! During my early
> youth, I learned to make explosives, from reading Tom Robbin's novel:
> "Still Life With Woodpecker". An excellent book, from the author of,
> "Even Cheerleaders Get The Blues". Still Life..., was hardly a
> survivalist's manual, more a work of quirky fiction.
Correcting myself, it should be Cowgirls, not cheerleaders!
LITTLEPJoo
Ray wrote:>> Any ways, in my bomb making period, one of the explosives, I
concocted
>> was a aluminum reefer bomb. I made it in my ice cream-cooler bucket,
>> and tried to set it off in my garage. A big cloud of lung-scarring,
>> aluminum hydroxide promulgated forth from that bucket; and I ran out of
that garage so fast, Carl Lewis wouldn't have caught me.
>> Ray
He He This is OT but last year we made some really fun "bombs" out of plastic
coke bottles for the fourth of july. We live in the country and didn't disturb
anyone but the whole family turned into pyromaniacs. It was pretty fun. :)
LITTLE PJ
J & J
"Windsong" <fish...@hotcom.net> wrote:
>Are you kidding? By the time I got to lab classes the lab was cleaned out,
>everything already stolen. In NYC if it's not nailed, screwed or glued down
>it's GONE!
>--
> Carol, .... fishhead at hotcom.net
Haha, I've always liked that saying, but around here we say '...nailed
down, or red hot...'
Julia
>***Never stand between a dog and the hydrant***
>~*~*~* }<(((ö> ~*~*~* }<(((Ô> ~*~*~* SNIP *~*~*
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*
>>>>
>>>it clear back in grade school. By the time the US Army got around to
>>>telling me about it, I think everyone with me in basic training already
>>>knew far worse. When you were in high school, didn't you know a kid who
>>>got in trouble making explosives in the chem lab?
>>>
>>>--
--This wasn't in the brochure,"-Billy Crystal
--anon-...@anon.twwells.com
--ICQ# 3547125
JFranco952
On Sat Dec 6th, Lee Taylor wrote>Those who are likely to use that trick would
already know it. I learned
>telling me about it, I think everyone with me in basic training already
>knew far worse. When you were in high school, didn't you know a kid who
>got in trouble making explosives in the chem lab?
No. actually I didn't. Maybe I led a sheltered life,but still, it is of my
opinion that some things should remain unknown for the general public or kids.
Specialy thing of this nature that might put some sort of idea into their heads
to try this feat, ijuring themselves or others. If at some time when you were
in grade school no one told you about this, you may not have tried this as a
kid...whether you did or not. Learning something as an adult, when you know
better is another thing.
James Franco
utarefsoN
I saw it too in another movie called "The Soldier".
Lee Taylor
Censorship??? Hell no!!!
If someone's mind is so weak or non-thinking that they'll try something
specifically noted as lethal, without understanding what's involved,
maybe they deserve to kill themselves with it.
Ever read Darwin's "Origin ..."? In this context, the general idea is
that those who are to stupid to live don't get to reproduce. It's a
harsh lesson, but quite effective for improving the species in general.
PKSYS
I think that this may be more lightbulb related than ghostly.