He Won't Do That Again

[Kenny_ms]

Post Traumatic Stress disorder...just remembered

 

[Deborah13]

I think all we have enough common sense to know where we'd be without some sort of regulation/rules.


I won't even get into this one with you or anyone.

There are so many aspects and ways of looking at it, we'd both come off being right as often as being wrong.

But are you saying we should have no regulations, surely you aren't

On what's used for gun powder being different than dynamite, is one explosion less than the other?

It would take a lot of black powder to equal the explosive strength of a stick of dynamite, but I don't know how much. Probably one of our members in the science fields knows.
My husband reloads, so he uses black powder, in very small amounts at a time. He can't get around dynamite, he has an allergic reaction.

 

[Jethro Bodine]

It seems the only things some people want to regulate are the things They don't use.

Yeah, horses.
Let's outlaw horses!

 

[Jethro Bodine]

I was looking at the picture in the article and some of those things look 3 times the size of an m-80 or more.

How many of those would it take to make an official stick of dynamite?

I grew up being told an M40 was 1/4 stick of dynamite...or was it the M80 that was 1/4 of a stick of dynamite? I forgets.

 

[Deborah13]

Yeah, horses.
Let's outlaw horses!

Grrrrrrrrr.................
I did think of that though. I can just see someone trying to say children riding horses is a form of child abuse.
So we must ban all junior rodeos and 4-H horse clubs.

My seven yr old granddaughter recently broke her arm riding her bike. It's in a cast, but she is still riding her new barrel horse. She says she has to be ready for rodeo, don't cha' know?

 

[Kenny_ms]

My husband reloads, so he uses black powder, in very small amounts at a time. He can't get around dynamite, he has an allergic reaction.

He can't get around dynamite, he has an allergic reaction.

Yep don't want any gun/ammo regulation, not me anyway. Allergic to dynamite? well at least it's not a Nitro Glycerine allergy, that could be fatal.

Not a whole lot to do with the subject but I think if I were him, I'd keep a pretty good stash of GP around, just in case the Gov decides to make some bad decisions, that or the major ingredients.

 

[KevinK]

Yep don't want any gun/ammo regulation, not me anyway. Allergic to dynamite? well at least it's not a Nitro Glycerine allergy, that could be fatal.

How do you mean? Dynamite is nitro glycerine (embedded in an adsorbent material).

 

[jasonc]

PTSD?

Not really.triggers can remain but the illness can be gone

 

[Kenny_ms]

How do you mean? Dynamite is nitro glycerine (embedded in an adsorbent material).

That being the case, your question is moot..

Interesting.

I guess it's just more fun to think of it in it's more volatile liquid form....the movies seem to like that anyway.

 

[KevinK]

I grew up being told an M40 was 1/4 stick of dynamite...or was it the M80 that was 1/4 of a stick of dynamite? I forgets.

Oh no, not that urban myth again! I've heard that one, too, many times also in my youth. The myth is that M80s are one-quarter of a stick of dynamite. That myth is based on bad math, comparing the relative amounts of explosive material in both devices. The problem is, they're not the same kind of explosive, not even the same class. The powder in an M80 firecracker is a low explosive, while that in dynamite is nitroglycerin-based high explosive.

This myth has been repeated so many times and very few people even questioned it. Like many myths, it transformed itself into a "fact" based on sheer repetition.

 

[KevinK]

That being the case, your question is moot..

Interesting.

I guess it's just more fun to think of it in it's more volatile liquid form....the movies seem to like that anyway.

What question is moot? What do you mean?

 

[Kenny_ms]

Kevin, why isn't Nitro G called dynamite and vice versa?

 

[Kenny_ms]

Oh no, not that urban myth again! I've heard that one, too, many times also in my youth. The myth is that M80s are one-quarter of a stick of dynamite. That myth is based on bad math, comparing the relative amounts of explosive material in both devices. The problem is, they're not the same kind of explosive, not even the same class. The powder in an M80 firecracker is a low explosive, while that in dynamite is nitroglycerin-based high explosive.

This myth has been repeated so many times and very few people even questioned it. Like many myths, it transformed itself into a "fact" based on sheer repetition.

I think the myth may also have stuck because well meaning, lying parents, were trying to make their kids more careful or not touch the stuff at all.

Like the proverbial "You'll shoot your eye out" we hear so much around Christmas time.

 

[Deborah13]

I think the myth may also have stuck because well meaning, lying parents, were trying to make their kids more careful or not touch the stuff at all.

Like the proverbial "You'll shoot your eye out" we hear so much around Christmas time.

Luckily for Ralphie, he wore glasses. I'd be much more worried about my husband if he took a liking to Leg lamps.

 

[AirDancer]

Luckily for Ralphie, he wore glasses. I'd be much more worried about my husband if he took a liking to Leg lamps.

My son received one of those leg lamps for Christmas one year from his wife. Each year since, it's been placed in the living room window so it can be seen from the street. He's had quite a few people ring his doorbell, with offers to buy that lamp. Amazing.

 

[Kenny_ms]

That was me knocking on the door of the leg lamp owner.

 

[KevinK]

Kevin, why isn't Nitro G called dynamite and vice versa?

Well, because they're not. As I said, nitro glycerine is an unstable chemical compound often used as a high explosive. Someone figured out (that someone was Alfred Nobel, incidentally, the Peace Prize guy) you could stabilize the substance by adsorbing it into an inert material such as diatomaceous earth. It is then called "dynamite". One is based on the other, but they're not the same thing.

More info https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamite

 

[Kenny_ms]

One is based on the other, but they're not the same thing.

Then your question was not moot.

Hate me yet?

 

[Deborah13]

My son received one of those leg lamps for Christmas one year from his wife. Each year since, it's been placed in the living room window so it can be seen from the street. He's had quite a few people ring his doorbell, with offers to buy that lamp. Amazing.

That is the best laugh I've had in awhile.

 

[AirDancer]

That is the best laugh I've had in awhile.