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 âsafeâ 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. Iâve been through enough safety inductions to know better, but itâs 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. Itâs 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 youâre 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, itâs 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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Iâm no explosionologist but Iâm pretty sure to oxi-dize you need oxy-gen So really just send some air up there and weâre in business.
Things regular people donât realize are dangers (a non-exhaustive list):
- Dust (will catch fire or explode)
- Oxidizers that arenât gas (theyâll still oxidize a fire)
- Static discharge between a liquid and its pipe/container (itâll spark and start a fire even if thereâs no âairâ involved)
- âEmptyâ 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 (itâs shocking how often itâs done with natural fucking gas instead of something inert)
- Composting at scale (see âenclosed spacesâ above)
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Even a small heap can catch fire if itâs really cooking with decomposition. Ours did one time when I was a kid.
We donât need Balloons, we just need to bring the Moon to the Oxy-genâŚ
-72 Hours Remain-
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Wait! Hold onâŚ
This news is just coming in but apparently Moon =/= Dust.
It really was cheese all along:
So did mine, but only in his second garage, which was built after the first. As to why it was only in his second garage, well, funny story actuallyâŚ
One that always surprised me, is how many people donât store their compressors with the drain valve open. Or even drain out their compressors when theyâre done using them. That water builds up, rusts the tank, and now youâve got a pressure vessel with a weak side, which gets very exciting very quickly. You ever seen steel tear and roll inside out like a balloon popping?
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If itâs not on Netflix, Prime, or Crunchyroll Iâm heading to the high seas, ARRRRR!
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15 characters of same.
Thirded for me except for the Crunchyroll part, because I stopped my crunchy sub for different reasons that wouldnât change if I pirated whatever instead. Itâd just be wasting drive space on stuff I wasnât going to get the time to watch anyway.
I actually also subscribe to Filmstruck.com for the old school high brow movies. Might not renew it, though.
I check these places in order.
- Netflix
- Amazon (prime video, purchase, rent)
- Crunchyroll (anime only)
- Youtube
- The blab (sports only)
- The high seas
Right now the only things other than live sports that Poseidon has had to provide are The Good Place and Westworld.