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Serious use for Silly String
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Very cool!Quote:
American troops use the stuff to detect trip wires around bombs.
Before entering a building, troops squirt the plastic goo, which can shoot strands about 10 to 12 feet, across the room. If it falls to the ground, no trip wires. If it hangs in the air, they know they have a problem. The wires are otherwise nearly invisible.
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Smart. [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img]
That's freaki awesome, who would ever think silly string could save lives? [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img]
Blasphemy!
Silly string should serve no other purpose than staining walls, harrassing your mother and/or pets, or setting children ablaze at birthday parties. I had no idea that such war atrocities had been going on. [img]graemlins/thumbs_down.gif[/img]
Now, if they got a cat to chase the silly string stream into a bomb-laced area, that would be perfectly acceptable.
Drau can confirm an odd encounter I had with silly string in College.
I was visiting his school for a weekend and we were partying with some girls at his school. I had the long, curly 80's rock hair going on....
As most of you know... silly string dries a few inches from the can in the air. This one girl put a can up to the back of my head, pressed the button and VSSSSHHHHHHH.... I feel this wet goo running down my scalp.
A few seconds later... I basically have a styrofoam helmet on the back of my head... with all my hair sticking out through it. [img]frown.gif[/img]
I had to sit for an hour or so while this girl broke each chunk of foam and pulled it the length of my hair until the whole thing was gone.
See what I mean? If she had only had a lighter handy or some lit birthday candles you wouldn't have had to sit still so long.
Baimun, I assume she gave you guilt sex afterwards? [img]wink.gif[/img]
I'm surprised he remembers anything from that night...
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Is that the same night that I woke up face down on a hardwood floor... saw that one girl from your school and said "I know you... I slept with you..." and it turned out that she was then married to your ex-roomate?Quote:
Originally posted by Drau:
I'm surprised he remembers anything from that night...
Yeah, that was an uncomfortable morning. [img]wink.gif[/img]
No wonder the spiderman shooters are out of stock [img]tongue.gif[/img]
hmmmm.....wonder what other every day kind of things they use for stuff like that. interesting
Could probably make a flamethrower out of the stuff.
Like extra-thick napalm. [img]biggrin.gif[/img]