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(Relatively) Safe Fireballs in your Living Room

students.cs.byu.edu — Make impressive fireballs with ordinary candle wax. -- After some testing in our living room, and later in the great outdoors, my roommate has put up a great tutorial on creating large fireballs with wax, water, and a do-it-yourself container.

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  • NtHammer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23a solitary killer, the firetruck stalks its prey. The firetruck can consume 8 times its body weight, the ambulances will have to weight their turn
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22Well, relatively irresponsible.
  • sithmat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17Can't wait for the first "House Burnt Down by DIY Fireballs" story to hit the front page. You;d have to be an idiot to try this out.
  • noseeme, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15They're drinking beer in Brigham Young University!!!

    Oh, false alarm, it's ROOT beer. :)
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+18Having the word safe in that title at all is pretty irresponsible.
  • BugMeNot2, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14Fireballs? In your living room? Safe?

    Uh....
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Ah, but high alcohol content = cool blue flame.

    Doesn't sound so bad now, eh?
  • DarkDays, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12I'd rather not..
  • tidu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Those are more like fire pillars than balls. Balls can be propelled from your hand to burn enemies.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8...burn down my apartment and get sued by my neighbors for arson
  • bradchoate, on 04/11/2008, -0/+6Wholly unnatural. Fireballs should be daring, not safe.
  • ronin688, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7I see dead people......
  • spectre_25gt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Oh, and please have your friends tape it for us and upload it to youtube.
  • igutekunst, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Here's what happens if you make it a bit bigger!
    http://flickr.com/photos/isaacg/37274143/
  • Stonekeeper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Superb! Now I need to dig out that article on the paperclip trebuchet and I'm away!
  • Twango, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"Safe" here would mean that -- when the room caught on fire, there'd be somebody awake to warn everyone to get out -- I guess.
  • SmithEsquire, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4he doesn't live in that apartment anymore
    (he lived there while on his mission)

    but that pretty much sums up BYU's student body:
    nerdy guys and fat chicks.
    i'd know.

    +
  • noseeme, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7Yeah, but it's BYU, the official University of Mormonism.
    They're SOBER fat chicks!
  • NanoStuff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I charred my ceiling doing this a while back. Not intentionally, I simply intended to put out a closely packed array of wicks with water, the fire became too extreme to blow it out.

    Boy was I surprised :)
  • unbeatablpab, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4yea, i guess you're right ^^. lol blue-flaming .>
  • AltonMan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"My curious side beat out my safety-minded side, and I dropped a bit of water into the boiling paraffin. The reaction was a puff of fire. As my companion and I experimented and developed the technique, we were able to make a ball of fire fly up four or five feet in the air, nearly to the ceiling of the apartment!"

    I hope his landlord doesn't read digg
  • Xinareiaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3No beer, they are LDS
  • stevelucky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3actually, that's henry weidhardt root beer. totally serious. you can read it on the label. i've had it. it's really good.
  • stevelucky, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4i can see that you've never been to BYU. there's more hot chicks there than i've seen at any other school.
  • mushoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I find it hilarious.
    This one in particular.
    http://students.cs.byu.edu/~amcnabb/paraffin/img/wardmenu2.jpeg
    It would lend some credibility to the claims that Ronald Reagan was in fact the devil. The missionaries are clearly worshiping his image while performing pyromasses/glamour shots.
  • Otto, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3From the article:
    "In August 2006, I was helping make a photo directory for my church congregation. I didn't want my picture to be a boring mug shot, so I decided to try to get my picture taken in front of a ball of fire."

    What sort of freaky church does this guy go to?
  • alej744, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2...and not Metacafe because you know how the Linux fanbois get about their little Flash -9 problems.
  • Chaos12, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2It doesn't exactly explain how to make the 2nd device, but this will be fun to try.
  • hipstershaun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Gasoline, propane, C4...
  • hipstershaun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This pic was taken years after his mission. All you've got is regular church members worshiping Ronald.
  • Rayor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What are they relatively safe to?
  • hipstershaun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The pics show only root beer.
  • 0siris, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2he got some pretty decent looking chicks to go on a fireball making experiment. I guess beers a great motivator.
  • Mimorox, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3hehe, I came accross this same discovery in a slightly different way. =)

    At some boring school party, they had set out all these candles in these glass vases. As me and my freinds got bored, we started dropping various toothpicks into them to keep ourselves amused. Of course, one of the supervisiors saw the flame, grabbed a glass of water, and threw it in. The result: The entire glass vase exploded, sending shards all over. The tablecloth fused to the table, and the candle was neigh unusable. Needless to say, we continued this scientific experiment on serveral other candles. xD
  • hipstershaun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Being at BYU this guy goes to a congregation comprised entirely of college students. (The Bishop,head of the congregation, being one of maybe three exceptions to that.) I don't care what religion you are, throw a few hundred college kids together and at least one will do something like this.

    The quoted statement also shows that he is trying to be different. So this sort of thing is abnormal for his church.
  • smohan123, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3DISCLAIMER: Digg, its users, or affiliates cannot be liable for any stupid antics performed while intoxicated and/or high and attempting foolhardy practices such as said "livingroom fireballs"!

    You do so at your OWN RISK!

    (Please go ahead and ***** up terribly if you do it, though) :)
  • stevelucky, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3really!? i used to live in provo, and i saw more hot chicks there than any other city i've ever lived in (i'm not form utah).
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2*****, that doesn't even have caffiene, does it? I lose.
  • hipstershaun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I don't know about you, but I've never gotten intoxicated from root beer.
  • porkstacker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow, it makes me feel safe knowing that kids these days are still doing stupid unsafe ***** indoors. Keeps the firemen and E.R. doctors in business.
  • Cyberdactyl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Proof the dude's nutty- - -

    second paragraph: "Spit-shining shoes is surprisingly addictive. . ."

    I spent 4 years spit shining shoes in the Navy because I was a Quartermaster on the bridge of an Admiral's CGN Cruiser, and believe me, I know of no one who was ever "addicted" to shining their shoes.
  • hipstershaun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"this is the stupidest and most unsafe thing I have every seen!"

    New to digg?
  • Lexomatic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Bugger, I wish I had the internet back when I was at uni. This sort of thing would have added a bit of colour to our Friday night irresponsibilities. Ah, the stupidity of young men - good times.
  • barakatx2, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2i didnt know there was ever a time when fire is a safe thing
  • acea, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I've just burned my house down. Perhaps i shouldn't have used that metal dustbin and big old chunk of frozen liquid oxygen....

    Seriously though - if you like this sort of thing then Ka-***** Boom! should entertain:

    http://www.totse.com/en/bad_ideas/*****/index.html
  • tehblacksheep23, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0well well well, a fellow totsean! im not quite sure how long youve been on totse, but just as a reminder, nothing in the text files works. well maybe a couple of the newer ones, but everything else is either outdated or absolute ***** that WILL get you killed.
  • lazerdave, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@Otto,

    LDS. They are almost as loony as Moonies or Scientologists.
  • JacNet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Sounds like some fun for pyromaniacs alike. =P
  • SailorBob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0DAMN!
  • SadPanda, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I can hear ambulance sirens...
    As stupid as the idea is...it's tempting to try.
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