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Old 01-16-2008, 02:27 PM   #1576
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Update:

Punchline first: I didn't die, since there's no internet in hell. Sorry guys.

Now for the more useful observations. It *is* hot. It's a freakin ball of fire, people. I have a tiny first degree burn on my left thumb where I held it first and longest. It does burn just like in the video with a candle-like flame about six inches in length. It needs to be smothered to go out. Or dropped in the snow. They both work. It can be tossed or juggled easily. It is very distracting to watch the flame part and not be focused on the ball; that's how I dropped it (and lost it) in the snow last night. It's very easy to light but now you have two burning things in your two hands, whatcha gonna do? That's how I (barely) hurt my thumb.

If you keep moving, and don't get distracted, they're quite easy to handle. For more tender hands it could be painful, perhaps even a small second degree burn. For tougher hands, higher pain and heat tolerance, they're not much of a problem. There is the counterintuitive problem of how to get away from the heat. Your first instinct is to drop it. And that will work, but unless you're standing in a snowbank, now the fire is on the floor. The graceful and dramatic way to get away from the heat is to smother it in your fist. It definitely feels weird to clench a fireball in your fist in self defense, but once it's out, the ball is barely warm. It is not singed at all, not smoking, not hot, easy to handle.

I had the most trouble lighting it and then managing to close and put away the lighter quickly and smoothly while I was ... getting burned on my other hand. Well... that's what practice is for.

It was fun, easy, dramatic and only slightly dangerous. Recommended for fully tamed and domesticated pyros.
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Old 01-17-2008, 06:46 PM   #1577
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Amazing ant colony.
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Old 01-17-2008, 07:29 PM   #1578
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Couldn't they just have bunged a camera down there and left the poor critters alone?
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Old 01-18-2008, 09:08 AM   #1579
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Great balls of fire. SFW but don't let your kids see this.
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/102949...ke_fire_balls/
The London Borough of Bexley has classified that link as pornography. Huh. Given V's reaction I spose it is in a way
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Old 01-18-2008, 09:32 AM   #1580
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The ants are interesting and I loved the contrast at the end, but did you notice at 0:46 the narrator refers to them as "aliens"? Huh?
It's not so big, though. In Japan there is a species of ant whose colonies allow their nest to connect to the nests of other colonies of the same species. Huge interconnected supernests develop. IIRC correctly sizes of more than 100 square kilometers are found!
And having been in some apparently endless underground shopping malls here, I'm left wondering...
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Old 01-18-2008, 09:54 AM   #1581
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Alien Ant Farm?
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Old 01-20-2008, 04:35 PM   #1582
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Christ, Drax.... ads for a TV show or movie, whatever the fuck it is.
Yep. I follow my inner voice.
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Old 01-20-2008, 04:37 PM   #1583
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Old 01-20-2008, 04:38 PM   #1584
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Old 01-20-2008, 04:45 PM   #1585
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Couldn't they just have bunged a camera down there and left the poor critters alone?
Agreed. Still, very informative.
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Old 01-20-2008, 07:12 PM   #1587
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Old 01-20-2008, 07:46 PM   #1588
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Old 01-21-2008, 09:54 PM   #1589
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Ever wonder what Lumberjim would look like with a mustache?
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Old 01-21-2008, 10:02 PM   #1590
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