Marvel’s Spider-Man is on its way to rival Bethesda levels of hilarious glitches.
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Uh oh.
It is October, my power has returned. 
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The year of out Lord 2018 in a single article:
TL;DR:
Straight white male border patrol agent starts wildfire with a gun at gender reveal party.
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Yeah, Tannerite combined with colour powder doesn’t sound like a gender reveal party to me, it sounds like a fuel-air bomb.
If it’s chalk it would probably be ok but tannerite alone is freaking stupid to use in dry conditions.
Right?
I think most people underestimate the dangers of powder and dust.
Sugar dust explosion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg7mLSG-Yws
Iron dust fires
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZHpeBubb_M
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I looked up a couple of different brands - most of the ones I found use cornstarch and food colouring. Cornstarch is so easily ignited when scattered that people often use it for “safe” fire-breathing, and it also scatters smoldering particles fucking EVERYWHERE. In the 1980s, a custard factory in England was almost leveled from a cornflour explosion(and fun fact, when the firefighters arrived and turned their hoses on it, it resulted in custard running down the streets), and in 2015, the worst mass injury event in the history of Taiwan was caused by a cornstarch-based colour powder used in a stage act causing an explosion.
They absolutely do. I’ve been through enough safety inductions to know better, but it’s absolutely astounding what can undergo some extremely exciting changes when exposed to an ignition source - like, aluminum dust from some industrial processes is incredibly hazardous. It’s a common issue that needs to be dealt with in woodworking shops, too, fine sawdust goes up with an admirable enthusiasm.
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I think we had a previous era where the average person doing this kind of thing had the experience to just know about these kinds of dangers due to daily life, apprenticeships, etc… When everyone knows someone who works in a factory, odds are at least one of your friends will tell you what you’re about to do is stupid.
In the current era trained professionals know it, but no one else does. To the average person with minimal science education and no industrial experience, it’s hard to blame them for not knowing about non-apparent dangers like dust.
My grandpa had a massive sawdust mitigation system rigged up in his garage.
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Man, if dust is so explosive, we should blow up the freaking Moon. 
Gotta get some rust up there to oxidize it though.
Smash Mars into the Moon
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God that sounds like a cheap sci-fi novel, the bad guys destroy Mars by accelerating the moon into it.
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I’m no explosionologist but I’m pretty sure to oxi-dize you need oxy-gen So really just send some air up there and we’re in business.
Things regular people don’t realize are dangers (a non-exhaustive list):
- Dust (will catch fire or explode)
- Oxidizers that aren’t gas (they’ll still oxidize a fire)
- Static discharge between a liquid and its pipe/container (it’ll spark and start a fire even if there’s no “air” involved)
- “Empty” tanks (vapors are more dangerous than the liquids themselves and will explode/catch fire all on their own)
- Pressure vessels (they just fucking explode with zero warning killing everyone)
- Enclosed spaces (de-oxygenated environments make people pass out before they feel anything)
- Blowing out pipes (it’s shocking how often it’s done with natural fucking gas instead of something inert)
- Composting at scale (see “enclosed spaces” above)
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Even a small heap can catch fire if it’s really cooking with decomposition. Ours did one time when I was a kid.
We don’t need Balloons, we just need to bring the Moon to the Oxy-gen…
-72 Hours Remain-
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