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Home Made Star Wars Movie Injury
SaleNowOn writes "Rather than use expensive cgi techniques to make the light sabres glow for their home movie. This couple instead used fluorescent tubes filled with petrol.
Which they then set alight.
If they don't survive they must be Future Darwin Award winners. It makes me proud to be British." And me embarassed to be a Star Wars geek.
If anything they would be descendants not ancestors. Remember that "Star Wars" happened a "Long Time Ago, In a Galaxy Far Far Away...."?
I'm very responsible, when ever something goes wrong they always say I'm responsible.
More seriously, Tritum + Phosphor would do nicely without posing much of a health risk. The only catch is that Tritium cost $$$ for very small quantities. For something the size of a lightsaber, it's likely that the cost of the Tritium would be too high.
The original poster had the best idea. Filling clear plastic tubes with a phosphorescent solution would have given them all the effect they wanted, but without the inherent danger. Of course, Adobe After Effects would have been even cheaper and safer, but these guys were obviously amatuers.
Javascript + Nintendo DSi = DSiCade
"People who do stupid things with hazardous materials often die." --Jim Davidson on alt.folklore.urban
I can feel for the pain that these people are going to feel for the rest of their lives. But they brought that upon themselves by their epic, incredible (as in un-fucking-believable) stupidity. Because of their industrial-strength stupidity, these two are probably be on the public dole for the rest of their painful lives. The ONLY thing these two bring to the rich tapestry of the grand history of Mankind is someone to point laugh at as an example of how to not be so goddamned fucking stupid. If John Fucking Donne himself had heard about these fuckwits, he would have rightfully mocked them himself.
"It may be that your whole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others" -- unattributed
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Your campus or facility has a site license. I've never heard of the medical exams, but the license is real and you will have to take certification courses in order to use the material as well as use appropriate safety devices.
If your institution DOESN'T follow these procedures (and is in the US...), let us all know so we can call your RSO and your state health department and get you shutdown for making the rest of us look bad.