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09 Aug 2008, 7:13 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aph-3zEacuw[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oV4tnjYvQ4s[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA4szM9cYpQ[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwY7DCWRzRY[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhO3u7MIggQ[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thaP_5d8ZpQ[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmU1YU7rNZg[/youtube]



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09 Aug 2008, 7:15 pm

Hope everyone likes the videos. Please - no actual flaming...



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09 Aug 2008, 7:17 pm

fire fire fire



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09 Aug 2008, 7:21 pm

8O Pretty.



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09 Aug 2008, 7:22 pm

claire333 wrote:
8O Pretty.


Controlled fire is very pretty.



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09 Aug 2008, 7:58 pm

iamnotaparakeet wrote:
Hope everyone likes the videos. Please - no actual flaming...
You are all very stupid people. Huh? Oh, sorry :oops:.


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10 Aug 2008, 10:50 am

AnAlias wrote:
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
Hope everyone likes the videos. Please - no actual flaming...
You are all very stupid people. Huh? Oh, sorry :oops:.

You lint licker! :P

(Kidding...)



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10 Aug 2008, 11:03 am

supahneko wrote:
AnAlias wrote:
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
Hope everyone likes the videos. Please - no actual flaming...
You are all very stupid people. Huh? Oh, sorry :oops:.

You lint licker! :P

(Kidding...)


I know you guys are just joking, but even joking may eventually get out of hand if the wrong words are said by accident. I just wanted this to be about ancient and modern weapons that used fire to kill.

From one recruiter I heard that the USA has stopped using them because they have been deemed inhumane. Mexico still uses them though I heard from a Mexican soldier, but they use them to burn marijuana fields or whatnot instead of people.



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10 Aug 2008, 12:03 pm

iamnotaparakeet wrote:
From one recruiter I heard that the USA has stopped using them because they have been deemed inhumane. Mexico still uses them though I heard from a Mexican soldier, but they use them to burn marijuana fields or whatnot instead of people.

I agree, they are a nasty way to kill.



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10 Aug 2008, 12:28 pm

supahneko wrote:
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
From one recruiter I heard that the USA has stopped using them because they have been deemed inhumane. Mexico still uses them though I heard from a Mexican soldier, but they use them to burn marijuana fields or whatnot instead of people.

I agree, they are a nasty way to kill.


Yeah, a lot of guys I've met who were in Vietnam say they or their buddies still have nightmares about it.



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10 Aug 2008, 12:56 pm

Videos were fun. :)



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13 Aug 2008, 7:51 pm

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13 Aug 2008, 9:31 pm

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The name in Greek for some of the vessels used to hold Greek Fire was extremely close to the name for egg-yolk, so I thought I'd try an experiment. The picture above is a mixture of egg-yolk and olive oil. There was no separation. The emulsification was highly viscous and could just about hold salt crystals due to its viscosity. If the salt were a finer powder, then it would not settle at all.



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14 Aug 2008, 12:04 am

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14 Aug 2008, 12:43 am

Composition of Greek Fire according to Noah Webster in 1828

Greek-fire, a combustible composition, the constituents of which are supposed to be asphalt, with niter and sulphur.

ASPHALT'IC, a. Pertaining to asphalt, or containing it; bituminous.

NI'TER, n. [In Hebrew, the verb under which this word appears signifies to spring, leap, shake, and to strip or break; in Ch. to strip or to fall off; in Syriac, the same; in Sam. to keep, to watch or guard.] A salt, called also salt-peter [stone-salt,] and in the modern nomenclature of chimistry, nitrate of potash. It exists in large quantities in the earth, and is continually formed in inhabited places, on walls sheltered from rain, and in all situations where animal matters are decomposed, under stables and barns, &c. It is of great use in the arts; is the principal ingredient in gunpowder, and is useful in medicines, in preserving meat, butter, &c. It is a white substance, and has an acrid, bitterish taste.

SUL'PHUR, n. [L.] A simple combustible mineral substance, of a yellow color, brittle, insoluble in water, but fusible by heat. It is called also brimstone, that is, burn-stone, from its great combustibility. It burns with a blue flame and a peculiar suffocating odor. Sulphur native or prismatic is of two kinds, common and volcanic.

BITU'MEN, n. [L.] This name is used to denote various inflammable substances, of a strong smell, and of different consistencies, which are found in the earth. There are several varieties, most of which evidently pass into each other, proceeding from Naphtha, the most fluid, to Petroleum, a viscid fluid, Maltha, more or less cohesive, elastic bitumen or mineral caoutchouc, and Asphalt, which is sometimes too hard to be scratched by the nail.



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14 Aug 2008, 12:45 am

iamnotaparakeet wrote:
Composition of Greek Fire according to Noah Webster in 1828

Greek-fire, a combustible composition, the constituents of which are supposed to be asphalt, with niter and sulphur.

ASPHALT'IC, a. Pertaining to asphalt, or containing it; bituminous.

NI'TER, n. [In Hebrew, the verb under which this word appears signifies to spring, leap, shake, and to strip or break; in Ch. to strip or to fall off; in Syriac, the same; in Sam. to keep, to watch or guard.] A salt, called also salt-peter [stone-salt,] and in the modern nomenclature of chimistry, nitrate of potash. It exists in large quantities in the earth, and is continually formed in inhabited places, on walls sheltered from rain, and in all situations where animal matters are decomposed, under stables and barns, &c. It is of great use in the arts; is the principal ingredient in gunpowder, and is useful in medicines, in preserving meat, butter, &c. It is a white substance, and has an acrid, bitterish taste.

SUL'PHUR, n. [L.] A simple combustible mineral substance, of a yellow color, brittle, insoluble in water, but fusible by heat. It is called also brimstone, that is, burn-stone, from its great combustibility. It burns with a blue flame and a peculiar suffocating odor. Sulphur native or prismatic is of two kinds, common and volcanic.

BITU'MEN, n. [L.] This name is used to denote various inflammable substances, of a strong smell, and of different consistencies, which are found in the earth. There are several varieties, most of which evidently pass into each other, proceeding from Naphtha, the most fluid, to Petroleum, a viscid fluid, Maltha, more or less cohesive, elastic bitumen or mineral caoutchouc, and Asphalt, which is sometimes too hard to be scratched by the nail.


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