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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.
Why oh why didn't they just use Glow Sticks? Here is a nice article on how they work. Crack them, cut them open, and dump into some sort of clear plastic tubing and seal. From what I understand, Glow Sticks are nontoxic and come in nifty colors! I guess the force just isn't that strong with them. :)
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The bitch of it is that in my high school electronics class, when we covered Tesla Coils and Van de Graff Generators, our teacher showed us how to have a light saber fight by holding a flourescent tube in one hand and the center tap of a Tesla Coil in the other. Sure, you've gotta be careful not to break the thin glass tube, but at least the results aren't quite so nasty if you do. Probably looks more convincing as well.
And if you work it right, it also gives you the ability to do the ever popular Jedi trick of throwing someone across the room with the open palm of your hand.
High voltage beats high temperature any day of the week.
Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm sure one of the chucky movies got banned as a pair of kids we're dangerously copying it - they killed someone by tieing him to a railway line iirc. Does this mean they're going to ban star wars movies?
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. - Douglas Adams
Flourescent tubes will also glow if you hold them while standing under high-tension power lines.
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I had a friend, who at the age of 16, decided to build his own flame thrower. Unfortunately for him, it worked. It worked SO well he burned about 80% of his body.
He was one of those guys who was incredibly intelligent with absolutely NO common sense. Or maybe better put as, smart enough to be dangerous.
If someone says he and his monkey have nothing to hide, they almost certainly do.
Nobody forced them to go to Iraq to install said repeater- he or she went because they were offered a boat load of money to do so- or because they are insane. Somehow these people are able to put a price on their own life- something I do not understand.
When I went to see the movie, a guy in the audience brought his Master Replica lightsaber. I had never seen one of these before. In a dark theater, the glow was convincing and impressive.
This would be a realistic and safe alternative to playing with gas.
(Whenever he would hold up the lightsaber the crowd would fall silent, waiting to hear the ignition sound - each time followed by a round of applause.)
Nonsense - Hemel is already famous for its 'oh my god! oh my god! we're all going to die!' 'magic roundabout'.
But then I live in Milton Keynes - spiritual home of the roundabout - and we're secretly jealous.
Mike.
"Star Wars" is a good sign for Western society....We support democracy.
Star Wars != support democracy, you dweeb. What, did you attend the George W. Bush school of political science? Where democracy = feel good, with no actual considerations for what defines a democratic society?
The whole point of the saga is that democratic institutions are weak, and we need princely heros (who have the blood of Anakin coursing through their veins) to protect us from despotism. Queen, Princess, Knight...those are the heroes. Who voted for Luke Skywalker? Who exercises civilian control over the Jedi?
The Star Wars story *might* correspond to a desire for a constitutional monarchy, respectful of basic human rights, but with a quasi-religious independent military. No democracy there, bub.
Let's make a list here: Fire, Gasoline, Flying glass
You forgot the best one: soap.
They mixed the gasoline with soap. The resulting mixture is a sticky, highly flammable sludge often called poor man's napalm. I'm guessing they did it so they could coat the insides of the tubes with a mixture that would stay in place while being swung around. Obviously, gasoline alone would tend to slosh and pour out.
But when the "saber" shattered, and the stuff splashed on them, it stuck to them, just like napalm does. Gasoline alone would have been much less dangerous since except where it soaked into clothes it would have mostly slid off the people and onto the ground. What little actually did stick would have burned away fairly quickly. This stuff, on the other hand, can stick to skin, hair and clothes in thick globs and continue burning for a very long time. Worse, it's very hard to smother effectively. If you drop to the ground to smother it, the lack of oxygen will stop combustion, but the mixture will probably retain enough heat to reignite as soon as you roll over. It also retains enough heat to continue burning you for quite a while if you wrap up in a blanket or something.
Very, very nasty stuff to be playing with. It's no surprise that these two may not survive.
Real napalm, by the way, is also a mixture of gasoline plus other stuff to stabilize it and slow the rate at which it burns.
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No.
You believe that they are there because of lies. Some of them, presumably, are there because they believe those statements to be true. Some are even there because even though they believe the statements to be of questionable validity, they feel that Iraqis can benefit from reconstruction despite that.
Finally, whether Bush "lied" or not is academic only. The fact now is that the people in that country need help of some sort.
Did Bush lie? I am not certain, and I doubt anyone save himself and a few of his closest advisors will ever have enough of the story to be able to say with a reasonable certainty if there were lies or statements that those individuals believed to be true at the time they were spoken.
Certainly you believe that Bush lied, but that doesn't make it so.
I am NOT saying he is perfect or that he never colored the truth. I am merely saying that the world is much more complicated that you want to paint it with your "lied and lied an lied and lied" comment.
"We don't know what we are doing, but we are doing it very carefully,..." Wherry, R.J. Personnel Psychology (1995)
Just remember however that the lies that we went in for were not told by George Bush. George Bush recieved poor/misleading intelligence. Sadaam Hussein lied and claimed both to his own people/government/army that there were still weapons and that they were sufficient to stop the US. Those were the lies that brought the US into Iraq. If Sadaam Hussein had not lied, and had complied with the cease fire(NOT peace) agreement. the US would not have needed to CONTINUE the war.
Food not Bombs is a nice platitude but it breaks down when you notice that the Bombees are usually well fed
So if there were WMDs you'd be OK with the invasion and subsequent liberation?
If your answer is yes, then your talk of nobility means squat, since there is nothing noble in letting people continue to live in an oppressive regime had we known there were no weapons. In other words, you come from a selfish and shortsighted point of view where WMDs to you mean the difference between doing the right thing or turning a blind eye to brutality and oppression.
If you answer no, then your argument that Bush lied is meaningless since either way you'd be against the war. Again, there is no nobility in that.
There is nothing noble about fighting for lies.
You seem to confuse objectives with reasons. Our reason for action at the time was in part, the mistaken view that Saddam has weapons. Our objective now is a free and democratic Iraq, and there is plenty of nobility in that. We are there, and rebuilding. That my friend is nobility, but I seriously doubt that someone so hung up on hate for the president will be able to see past the hate.