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It never ceases to amaze me how retarded people can be. Take a look at this...
<a href="http://www.9news.com/acm_news.aspx?OSGN ... a7bf">Huge Link</a>

This should change your mind about using acetylene in your cannons!

i wonder what made the balloon blow up, the powder inside the balloon mix with the gas? static charge? shock/impack? dickhead with a lite cigerette?? wonder what he told the insurance company.....AAAAAAAAA a balloon totaled my car...Dhaaaaa

This is retarded... every time a gas that is not a standard propelent damages something, people are like "OMG! Look what it did! It'll blow your cannon to HADES!"

...quite simply, cars arn't pressure containers. They have large, <b>flat</b> and relitivly weak windows, pathetic <b>flat</b> sheet-metal roofs... they just arn't built to withstand pressure, because it's not required of them.

this link dosent work
scratch that i worked on the 6th try

the acetylene exploded from just that small amount of static, im in a welding class at my school and our instructor has many stories like this. he also did this but poked the ballon from afar with a hot electrode and stick

welding class thats cool, i'm building a spare tire carrier for my van as we speak, cut apart the old one, pior owner backed into something bent it all up and the door, useing 3/4" square stock weld steel, 6 bucks for 4 foot lenth, welding with a camble hausfield wire feed arc welder, hi/lo range for the heat control, dail up for the speed control, good little welder paid 200 bucks for it at a tool auction about 10 years ago, it's paid it's self off 8 times over allready!!!

I wish I had welding classes in my school. I guess that's the fault of a conservative Catholic education, you know, all brains, no getting your hands dirty.

But that is insane to see what it did to the car. DANG!

idiots+explosives= disasters and people thinking this is what's gona happen around explosives

you don't have to be an idiot just for something bad to happen... we've all made mistakes that, if just one thing went differently, we would be dead. For example, spud gunning, if you had a hybrid and there was the tiniest crack and you didn't notice it for some reason, it would slowly expand and after a few shots, the whoule gun would explode. So don't assume that people who are unfortunate are naturaly idiots. oh and dragon, this ussualy is around the lines of what happens with explosives, crap blows up, that is exactly what they are designed to do.

first of all if you were careing explisives like that you build a magazine and idiot like gas explosive in a balloon in a car = bad and they should have known not to carry that sort of thing in a static rich environment

they did that on west coast chopers in a pipe, ends wraped with duck tape