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How To Turn Burning Gas Into A Lamp Without Blowing Yourself Up
If you were a coal miner in the early 1800s, the light you used was an openflame oil lamp — even though mines were sometimes filled with “fire-damp”, a volatile mixiture of air and methane gas. Explosions were inevitable and threw bodies from mine shafts like grapeshot from a cannon. Humphry Davy became a national…
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Watch A Railroad Bridge Turn Into $10 Million Flaming Dominoes
Structure fires are never a good thing, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be impressive. Last Sunday, this railroad trestle in Texas caught fire, and when authorities decided it would be too dangerous to fight, they just let it burn.
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A Guy Made The Fire Breathing Piranha Plant From Super Mario Bros
If you ever thought real life should be more like the video games we play, you’re not alone. At the very least, you definitely have an awesome friend in Caleb Kraft, senior editor at Hack a Day. He made a real homemade version of the fire-breathing piranha plant from Super Mario Bros. It’s incredible.
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Burn It Down (Then Take A Seat)
Most people who set fire to their work tend to be pretty much, uh, over it. For Kaspar Hamacher, it’s just the start of a new piece. Hamacher, a 32-year-old Belgian furniture maker, describes his process of design-by-conflagration as “sculpting with the elements”.