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   When mercury thiocyanate decomposes, it ahhhhhhh, kill it with fire. Wait, no

23 Jun 2012 01:08 PM   |   10903 clicks   |   LiveLeak
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some_beer_drinker    [TotalFark]  
coooooooool

23 Jun 2012 04:06 AM
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CPT Ethanolic    [TotalFark]  
Gonna have to see about buying me some of this!

23 Jun 2012 06:23 AM
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markie_farkie    [TotalFark]  
Looks like one of the ingredients in those fireworks snake pellets.

I think there are STILL black marks on the driveway from 10 years ago.

23 Jun 2012 10:24 AM
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Lord Jubjub    [TotalFark]  
CPT Ethanolic: Gonna have to see about buying me some of this!

Every aspect of that demonstration is capable of killing you, including the snake itself. Be VERY careful.

markie_farkie: Looks like one of the ingredients in those fireworks snake pellets.

I think there are STILL black marks on the driveway from 10 years ago.


The Pharaoh's Serpent was the original snake. They started using safer ingredients after kids were eating the snake and dying.

23 Jun 2012 12:10 PM
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calbert     
Lord Jubjub: The Pharaoh's Serpent was the original snake. They started using safer ingredients after kids were eating the snake and dying.

true, but the deaths were only among first-born males.

23 Jun 2012 12:40 PM
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PacManDreaming    [TotalFark]  
markie_farkie: Looks like one of the ingredients in those fireworks snake pellets.

I think there are STILL black marks on the driveway from 10 years ago.


Yeah, when I saw the video, I was quite underwhelmed...especially after lighting up numerous Pharaoh's Serpents from 30+ years ago. Those were usually the last things we set off after we ran out of all the fun(translation: dangerous) fireworks.

23 Jun 2012 12:53 PM
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xanadian    [TotalFark]  
I wonder what the final chemical composition of the snake is... couldn't find it in Wikipedia...

Lord Jubjub: markie_farkie: Looks like one of the ingredients in those fireworks snake pellets.

I think there are STILL black marks on the driveway from 10 years ago.

The Pharaoh's Serpent was the original snake. They started using safer ingredients after kids were eating the snake and dying.


Ah, it's just Darwin doing his job.

23 Jun 2012 01:00 PM
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indarwinsshadow     
www.hrgiger.com

Approves.

23 Jun 2012 01:32 PM
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Saberus Terras     
Tetsuo!

23 Jun 2012 01:47 PM
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amo    [TotalFark]  
calbert: Lord Jubjub: The Pharaoh's Serpent was the original snake. They started using safer ingredients after kids were eating the snake and dying.

true, but the deaths were only among first-born males.


*slow clap*

Well done, my friend.

23 Jun 2012 02:07 PM
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scalpod     
xanadian: I wonder what the final chemical composition of the snake is... couldn't find it in Wikipedia...

Lord Jubjub: markie_farkie: Looks like one of the ingredients in those fireworks snake pellets.

I think there are STILL black marks on the driveway from 10 years ago.

The Pharaoh's Serpent was the original snake. They started using safer ingredients after kids were eating the snake and dying.

Ah, it's just Darwin doing his job.


Chemistry behind The Pharaoh's Serpent.

23 Jun 2012 02:34 PM
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studebaker hoch    [TotalFark]  
Snake burns on the sidewalk were as much a part of childhood in the US as lite-brite pegs getting lost in the shag carpet.

23 Jun 2012 02:48 PM
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InfrasonicTom    [TotalFark]  
Skip the first 1:20 unless you get a tingle in your naughty bits watching someone spoon out some powder.

23 Jun 2012 02:54 PM
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mooseyfate     
Reminded me of Poison Ivy's little vine-pods she'd always throw at people on Batman TAS.

23 Jun 2012 02:58 PM
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stiletto_the_wise     
Did we really need to see 1:20 of scooping¿

23 Jun 2012 03:10 PM
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TheMega     
stiletto_the_wise: Did we really need to see 1:20 of scooping¿

Apparently so... apparently so... apparently so... apparently so... apparently so... apparently so... apparently so... apparently so... apparently so... and so on and so forth.

/scoop

23 Jun 2012 03:34 PM
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Sylvia_Bandersnatch     
No one will be seated during the gripping minute-long Spooning The Stuff Into The Terrarium scene. I think the live coda of "Free Bird" was shorter than this.

Joking aside, that is one freakish reaction all right. Even the noise is creepy.

23 Jun 2012 03:46 PM
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Sylvia_Bandersnatch     
calbert: Lord Jubjub: The Pharaoh's Serpent was the original snake. They started using safer ingredients after kids were eating the snake and dying.

true, but the deaths were only among first-born males.


I don't take a religious view. I like to think of it was natural selection.

23 Jun 2012 03:47 PM
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StoPPeRmobile     
markie_farkie: Looks like one of the ingredients in those fireworks snake pellets.

I think there are STILL black marks on the driveway from 10 years ago.


Came to say, snakes and sparklers are the good stuff.

23 Jun 2012 04:08 PM
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maxheck     
That was... Lovecraftian... :)

I was talking with a friend about a book they had in my junior high... No way in heck they'd publish that nowadays. It was called "Science Magic" and had all sorts of stuff involving toxic stuff like mercury or highly reactive stuff like 80% hydrogen peroxide. You know... The fun stuff!

Anyway, one of the recipes was for ash snakes. Older farkers will know what I'm talking about. Little asprin-sized tablets that made twisty ash trails. Except this book didn't fark around, they described making cones the size of your fist to make ash friggin' anacondas.

Really wish I could find a copy of that book.

23 Jun 2012 04:30 PM
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Gonad the Ballbarian     
Oceanside, CA

23 Jun 2012 04:39 PM
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Stile4aly     
So that's how Prometheus ended.

23 Jun 2012 04:42 PM
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BumpInTheNight     
AKKKIIIIIIIIIRRRAA!

23 Jun 2012 05:04 PM
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Devolving_Spud     
More proof that "science" is of the Devil!!!!11!!11!!!!666!

23 Jun 2012 05:09 PM
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Dear Jerk     
One more thing that would be cheaper and safer would be to cook a bar of Ivory soap in a microwave.

23 Jun 2012 05:10 PM
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Dialectic     
It's alive!

23 Jun 2012 05:33 PM
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Dakai     
markie_farkie: Looks like one of the ingredients in those fireworks snake pellets.

I think there are STILL black marks on the driveway from 10 years ago.


Came to say this

23 Jun 2012 05:53 PM
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Nuclear Monk     
I had one of those removed from my spine last year. I don't recommend it.

23 Jun 2012 05:55 PM
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ultraholland     
those poor, little cacti

23 Jun 2012 06:37 PM
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StoPPeRmobile     
Sylvia_Bandersnatch: No one will be seated during the gripping minute-long Spooning The Stuff Into The Terrarium scene. I think the live coda of "Free Bird" was shorter than this.

Joking aside, that is one freakish reaction all right. Even the noise is creepy.


THAT is why I am the SHAMAN!!!!!!

Bow to me.

23 Jun 2012 06:56 PM
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Mister Peejay    [TotalFark]  
calbert: Lord Jubjub: The Pharaoh's Serpent was the original snake. They started using safer ingredients after kids were eating the snake and dying.

true, but the deaths were only among first-born males.


Beautiful.

23 Jun 2012 07:12 PM
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GonzoNihilist     
lh6.ggpht.com

23 Jun 2012 08:19 PM
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mooseyfate     
Dear Jerk: One more thing that would be cheaper and safer would be to cook a bar of Ivory soap in a microwave.

.......you know, I need a new microwave anyways...

/off to buy a bar of ivory soap and a new microwave!

23 Jun 2012 08:48 PM
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Paris1127    [TotalFark]  
Awesome... Another great experiment is dehydrating sugar with concentrated sulfuric acid.

23 Jun 2012 09:09 PM
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zerkalo     
calbert: Lord Jubjub: The Pharaoh's Serpent was the original snake. They started using safer ingredients after kids were eating the snake and dying.

true, but the deaths were only among first-born males.


I just did a white wine spit take

23 Jun 2012 09:11 PM
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LeroyB     
It looks like a series of tubes.

... just like the Inter-web

23 Jun 2012 09:11 PM
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Tyrone Slothrop     
calbert: Lord Jubjub: The Pharaoh's Serpent was the original snake. They started using safer ingredients after kids were eating the snake and dying.

true, but the deaths were only among first-born males.


And it didn't affect Jews at all.

23 Jun 2012 09:12 PM
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zerkalo     
studebaker hoch: Snake burns on the sidewalk were as much a part of childhood in the US as lite-brite pegs getting lost in the shag carpet.

And stepping on 20-sided dice in one's bare feet

23 Jun 2012 09:13 PM
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PacManDreaming    [TotalFark]  
zerkalo: And stepping on 20-sided dice in one's bare feet

Meh, those four-sided dice made better caltrops.

23 Jun 2012 09:39 PM
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Sylvia_Bandersnatch     
PacManDreaming: zerkalo: And stepping on 20-sided dice in one's bare feet

Meh, those four-sided dice made better caltrops.


The 4-siders are the most painful, to be sure. But the 20's are big enough to take you down. My brother had a 30-sider; we called it the 'golf ball'.

23 Jun 2012 10:48 PM
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DutchDynamite     
imagine lighting up 100 kg of that stuff

23 Jun 2012 11:35 PM
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Dear Jerk     
DutchDynamite
imagine lighting up 100 kg of that stuff

Spooning out that much would be like watching an Andy Warhol film.

24 Jun 2012 12:33 AM
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Ghastly    [TotalFark]  
Saberus Terras: Tetsuo!

KANEDAAAAA!

24 Jun 2012 01:14 AM
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The All-Powerful Atheismo     
Ghastly: Saberus Terras: Tetsuo!

KANEDAAAAA!


TETSUOOO!

24 Jun 2012 02:15 AM
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maxheck     
The All-Powerful Atheismo:

Ghastly: Saberus Terras: Tetsuo!

KANEDAAAAA!

TETSUOOO!


Aaaaaand the laser sputters out.

Why the fark you'd call someone's attention to the fact that you're about to zap them, I'll never know. Me, I'd just shoot the SOB.

24 Jun 2012 02:21 AM
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Paris1127    [TotalFark]  
I see your Mercury(II) thiocyanate decomposing and raise you Ammonium dichromate and Mercury(II) thiocyanate decomposing together...

24 Jun 2012 04:11 AM
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Monkeyfark Ridiculous     
Paris1127: I see your Mercury(II) thiocyanate decomposing and raise you Ammonium dichromate and Mercury(II) thiocyanate decomposing together...

Nice.

24 Jun 2012 06:16 AM
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tetsoushima     
Saberus Terras: Tetsuo!

www.freewebs.com

May I help you?

24 Jun 2012 09:53 AM
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Saberus Terras     
tetsoushima: Saberus Terras: Tetsuo!

[www.freewebs.com image 639x368]

May I help you?


O_O


...please don't kill me.

24 Jun 2012 11:34 AM
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Elvis Da King     
studebaker hoch: Snake burns on the sidewalk were as much a part of childhood in the US as lite-brite pegs getting lost in the shag carpet.

The minute I read that, my foot started aching.

24 Jun 2012 11:49 AM
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