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From: liang@cvl.UUCP (Eli Liang)
Newsgroups: net.rec
Subject: Re: Blowing things up
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Date: Thu, 24-Jan-85 18:04:21 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 24 18:04:21 1985
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> Does anyone else on the net like to blow things up or see huge fireballs?
> I haven't been too active lately, just a little Nitrogen Tri-iodide and
> misc. small bangs/flashes.  I have been thinking of buying a small piece
> of land to blow things up on 'though.  I am especially curious about the
> effect of placing a container of liquid ignitable gas in a pile of thermite
> and igniting it.  I would probably start small with a disposable lighter and
> then move on to something like a can of starting ether...  Boy!  I bet it
> would look real keen.  How about it fellow netters?  Any suggestions (other
> then the obvious safety precautions)?
> 
> 	--Cliff [Matthews]
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Must reading for the budding pyromaniac is much touted, Handbook of Powders
and Explosives.  Marshall produced a virtual encyclopedia on the subject.
Even though it was published in 1918, these 3 volumes contain just about
all one needs to know about explosives unless one is interested in the state
of the art.  Stay away from The Anarchist's Cookbook though, I've heard it
said that one only plays with the prescriptions in there if one is tired of
living.

-eli

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- who?  me???


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