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Amateur Scientist Builds Thermite Grenade Cannon (gizmodo.com)
YouTube personality Colin Furze has built a homemade cannon which he's filmed launching grenades filled with thermite, "an especially nasty chemical composition made of metal power and oxide that burns as hot as 2,500 degrees Celsius." Furze once co-hosted Sky1's program Gadget Geeks, and he's since made a new career demonstrating strange science projects on YouTube. Furze's other homemade devices have included a rocket-powered go-kart and a knife that can also toast bread while it's cutting.
Actually, he's more an engineer but anyway, not my favorite video of him.
I'm was more impressed when he hydroformed a pulse jet
Elok
Reminds me of the flamethrower I made a few years back, neat stuff. I wish I had the equipment (And the free time) this guy does.
He might want to be a little safer (Flame retardant clothing, glasses, etc.) it looks like he didn't learn from his last incident:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Pronouncing what does not exist?
We had a Texan come over as a maintenance manager at our plant when the previous one left suddenly (or was told to leave suddenly depending on who's story you believe). Lovely guy, very Texan complaining loudly about not being allowed a gun rack on his massive pick-up in Australia.
One day he bursts in to the reliability office and proclaims with incredible pride: "I finally figured out why you pronounce it aluminium!!!! You actually spell it with the second 'i' !!!!".
We're of English decent. Not only do we not pronounce what does not exist, quite often we actively avoid pronouncing things that do.
Greetings to you from your colourful neighbours across the pond. :-)