Did anyone just watch Mythbusters?  What was the thing about the disposable lighters causing an explosion?
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They did experiments where they were trying to see how much heat it takes for a fire to ignite from a disposable lighter.  If you concentrated a blow torch near the lighter, it exploded.  The lighter exploded after 400 degrees in a toaster oven.  For the final test, they stuck 500 lighters in a car, then put a heating element in the car to represent the car sitting on a hot day.  The car exploded.
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YEARS ago I saw a video shot in a lab..   They a kinda of box about 5 feet square and it was all wrapped in cellophane.  Not sure what gas was in the box but it exploded.   A ball about 4 inches floated out of the explosion and out of the room.  The whole thing lasted maybe 3 seconds.\n\nThey said it was ball lighting..
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Saw the demo on TV the other day - pretty cool! I wouldn't recommend trying it that way -- not that you'd explode (I think, I hope) but you might feel very uncomfortable if the gas gets trapped!  (you kook! LOL!)
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do you mean spontaneous combustion? I think thats just a myth.
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i love the show! did you see it on Monday? when the alarm went on and the handle broke i thought they were goners. luckily Michael was the 2ND to last  ;>
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someone invented an alternative to petrol,  the companys  bought his idea out to keep it secrte,  lightbulb was invented  that  never  burnt out, once again, same scernario,  beef is unhealthy?   lol   dont be silly, {says  those in power} put it this way, ive been veggy 20 years!!
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Kari Byron mentioned they tried the free-energy myth in one show, but i don't remember seeing that one. i need to be on that show when they revisit that myth, it will be great fun for me to confirm it for them!
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The explanations of fire in most standard reference works, not to put too fine a point on it, suck. The Encyclopaedia Britannica, for example, takes the following ineffectual stab: "rapid burning of combustible material with the evolution of heat and usually accompanied by flame." No wonder people have lost faith in science. Time to let a professional show how it's done. We'll start by reviewing the defects of the EB definition.\n\n(1) Rapid burning. OK, fire burns rapidly. Slow combustion, also known as oxidation, includes such nonfiery processes as rusting and digestion. However, to say that fire involves burning is to embark on a circular definition: What is fire? When something burns. What is burning? When something is on fire. We need to address the matter in more basic terms.\n\n(2) Combustible materials. Redundant. If a material is capable of rapid burning, by definition it's combustible. Also, "materials" is needlessly vague. One specific material, oxygen, is always involved.\n\n(3) Evolution of heat. I don't know what this is supposed to mean either.\n\n(4) Usually accompanied by flame. "Usually accompanied by" my arse. Flame is the quintessential pyrolytic phenomenon, not a mere by-product.\n\nNow for a proper definition, devised by myself: "Fire is the rapid combination of oxygen with fuel in the presence of heat, typically characterized by flame, a body of incandescent gas that contains and sustains the reaction and emits light and heat." Let's go through this bit by bit:\n\n(1) Rapid combination of oxygen with fuel in the presence of heat. Oxygen, fuel, and heat are the essential ingredients of fire. \n\n(2) Typically characterized by flame. The pup qualifier "typically" allows me to sidestep the issue of apparently nonflaming fires, like you get with burning charcoal. I suspect charcoal fires do create flame--you just can't see it due to the lack of impurities or incompletely burned fuel in the plume. (You can't see a fuel fire at an Indy or CART race either, because the cars run on clean-burning methanol.) But that's a matter we can leave for another day.\n\n(3) Body of incandescent gas. Flame defined. Most encyclopedia and dictionary definitions blow past this entirely, allowing persons such as yourself to imagine that fire is "pure energy" or similar nonsense. We say "body" because the gas has a characteristic structure and composition. We say "incandescent" because (a) it sounds scientific, (b) it means "luminous with intense heat," precisely what we are attempting to convey, and (c) if the Teeming Millions are going to learn one vocabulary word today, by God "incandescent" should be it.\n\n(4) Contains and sustains the reaction. Flame isn't just the result of fire; it is the fire. What's more, without the flame's heat the fire would go out.\n\n(5) Emits light and heat. Duh. However, we mustn't overlook the obvious.  \n\n>>>why do things that are put in it come out totally destroyed?\n\nOf course most things that go into fire aren’t totally destroyed. Most metals, glass, ceramic and so forth all emerge unscathed from fire. Even wood and paper aren’t totally destroyed, they leave an ash and charcoal residue as well as fine particles that we can see as soot and smoke.\n\nFire will ‘destroy’ anything organic that can be completely oxidised at the temperature that it burns at, but that is simply because the oxidation process converts the organic material to carbon dioxide,  and water. IOW the material isn’t destroyed it is just converted to gas and that gas blows away.\n\n>>>>>what fuel does it need from say, paper,\n\nThe paper IS the fuel the fire needs. The fire converts the paper into gases and ash. Or more accurately fire is the process of converting paper into gases and ash.
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Have you ever seen Myth Busters?\n\nAdam took a long pipe and put a conveyer belt running through it, attatched a huge magnet the top, put the hay on the conveyer belt a little bit at a time and it work great! He kicked Jamie's butt!
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nope, just an urban legend. Same as people with pickup trucks driving with the tailgate down to reduce wind resistance (that one was actually proven to take more gas by the guys on Mythbusters)
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People and animals that died were afterwards covered with coal dust from the eruption. The sediments were extremely fine-grained and they preserved even small details of the people who died there, thus creating natural casts (negatives).\nIn the 1860s, researchers were able to fill the casts with plaster to create molds(positives). Once the casts were broken, these molds were seen to be extremely detailed reproductions of those bodies. \nBrrr I get goosebumps just from thinking about it :-S
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The scientific explanation is that it doesn't happen. They're still arguing over it.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_human_combustion
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When the FBI pumps in gallons of extremely flammable substances in order to drive out the occupants, and then the building catches fire, there should be some questions raised.  From everything I've seen, the FBI just made a lots of mistakes and did things in a very poor manner.  This resulted in the compound turning into a cluster f&#%.
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false, but the rumor probably started I believe one of Edison's bulbs is still burning in Menlo park (his lab).\n\nIt's never been turned off, which helps it last longer.
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You see cigarettes lying around suspiciously..then yeah..they started it!!~\n\nLOL!!!\n\nUnless ofcourse it was the mail man/woman or the bills that was burnt..then you know who caused the fire..LOL!!!\nyou know what i mean!~\n\n^_^
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What's the flashing headlights one?!?!  I do that to motorists when they don't have their lights on.  Does that mean I'm a freak?!?!  Anyways.. I had fun researching this topic!\n\nURBAN LEGENDS THAT ARE NOT TRUE...\n*Woman calls police because a fast food outlet won't make a cheeseburger the way she wants it.\n*Chewing gum takes seven years to pass through the human digestive system. \n*Hair grows back darker or thicker after it has been shaved. \n*A minister in Disney's The Little Mermaid sports an erection during a wedding.\n*The size of a man's nose, hands, or feet is a reliable indicator of the size of his penis. \n*A Romanian couple named their son 'Yahoo' as a sign of gratitude for their having met over the Internet.\n*A Tootsie Pop wrapper with a picture of an Indian shooting an arrow at a star on it can be redeemed with Tootsie Roll Industries for a free bag of candy.\n*Rice thrown at weddings is dangerous to birds.\n*Possums hang by their tails in trees.\n*The daddy longlegs spider is the "world's most poisonous animal."\n*Human handling of baby birds will cause their mothers to reject them. \n*Multiplying your dog's age by seven will produce its equivalent in human years.\n*A frog placed in water that is brought to a boil through gradual temperature increase will make no attempt to escape.\n*During the December 2004 tsunami, elephants who had broken free from their handlers rescued 42 people.\n*Dr Pepper soda is made with prune juice. \n*Brain-damaged LSD user believes himself to be glass of orange juice. \n*Someone who has taken LSD more than seven times is declared legally insane.\n*Woman dies after visiting too many tanning parlors in one day. \n*Cher had a pair of ribs surgically removed to achieve an ultra-small waist.\n*Young boy dies from eating Pop Rocks candy with soda pop. \n\nURBAN LEGENDS THAT ARE TRUE...\n\n*The design of the California state flag was the result of a mistake. \n*When the Titanic hit an iceberg in the north Atlantic, the silent version of the film The Poseidon Adventure was being screened aboard ship. \n*The Chinese are raising St. Bernard dogs for food.\n*Two men each lose an arm in a grisly tug-of-war contest.
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You can use air compression if you can't find fireworks.  Rig something to blow its top and throw some top cover into the air.  Sound effects will add to it.  The container could contain smoke that you've trapped in it to release.