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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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>If they don't survive they must be Future Darwin Award winners.
Oh that would be so cool. Finally, the Star Wars fandom community recognized by a mainstream award!
*crosses fingers*
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/beds/bu cks/herts/4575291.stm
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!
someone had to do it.
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The force was strong with that petrol.
I feel bad for these guys and their injuries, but do people NOT know that you don't light glass tubes of gasoline on fire?
How did these guys make it this far into life?
And, lastly, where's the video?
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Mess with the force, and you're bound to get burned.
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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?
Now they won't need make-up for Anakin's "Burn" scene.
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I might know what I'm talkin' about, but then again, this is Slashdot...
"Police say a third person present at the incident was questioned."
Who found the cops' lack of faith disturbing...
No doubt he was an elderly English gentleman, who had been encouraging our friends to try out their little experiment.
Reality has a liberal bias
From The Currant Bun and The BBC.
NB : Before you make any cheap cracks, the people involved are seriously injured.
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the dumb is strong in these two...
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OK, sure, I've had some fun with pyrotechnics. My father -- being a machinist -- had welding equipment, so he and I would fill balloons with mapp gas and oxygen and would shoot them with burning bolts from a home-made crossbow. Good times. Not to mention my blacksmith uncle who would, on the fourth of july, take a special anvil he'd hollowed out the bottom of and fill the hollow with gunpowder. You can imagine the fun. Again, good times.
But, come on. Fluorescent light tubes?! You would have to be some sort of catastrophically stupid person to not realize how fragile those tubes are. I mean, for christ's sake! Filling a fragile glass tube with a burning liquid and then hitting things with it! Oh my god. If you *have* to do this, and obviously, you do because it's cool and fun, at least put some thought behind the mechanics.
The only thing I can really think about all this is that, somewhere, modern culture isn't teaching people important, basic, rules about material properties.
On a side note, I previously associated this kind of behavior with my fellow Americans. We're a stupid, raucous bunch. I'm glad to open my arms to the UK, I welcome you to our stupid bosom. May you whittle your gene pool alongside us.
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Flourescent tubes will also glow if you hold them while standing under high-tension power lines.
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Use the Extinguisher Luke...
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Shouldn't that be "Hall of Flame"?
Faith: n. -- That human impulse that drives them to steal appliances when the power goes out
Q. How many Star Wars fans does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A. It depends on the number of light bulbs and the amount of gasoline on hand.
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"They filled them with fuel and washing-up liquid to act out a Jedi Knight fight scene from new movie Revenge Of The Sith. "
Gas + soap may make a crude napalm
"Lead to Darwin Awards, the path of stupidity does."
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Ah yes the famous lastwords of a redneck. But how many know the last words of his friend?
Around here "hey Yall watch this" Is usually follwed by "aww heck I can do that"
"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.
Did it look cool?
Did anyone get pictures?
"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
The other day I was talking to someone that couldn't tell me whether the end on what ended up being his ethernet cord was metal or plastic. Even after he told me he could see the wires inside [...]
Haven't ye ever heard a' transparent aluminum, laddie?
That said..
Obi-Wan: The Force is what gives a Jedi his power. It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together. Though it does not make you flame retardent , ask vader
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The problem, of course, is that they used petrol, whatever the hell that is. They should have used good ol' American gasoline.
English: If it was good enough fer Jesus, it's good enough fer you.
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I know someone who built what looks, in the dark or not right up in your face, like a real functioning lightsaber. A good many of them actually, he pulls them out at renaissance faires after hours to entertain the guilds with lightsaber duels. They're basically real swords lined with side-luminous fiberoptics, and a laser (or at least a strong, colored light source) shining into one end of the fiber. You wouldn't even need to use swords properly to make them... a transparent plastic tube (hard acrylic like they build marine exhibits ala Sea World out of) would probably work better, twist the two lines of fiberoptics down the center, and let the lens effect of the plastic tubing "fill in" the space in the middle.
The problem with the segmented plastic lightsabers you can buy is (A) they're weak as fuck and you can't fight with them, (B) you can see the segmenting and it's clearly soft plastic between!
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