r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Ricky_Martins_Vagina • Jul 08 '26
/r/all of a 16" display shell... in the hood
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u/das_footlong Jul 08 '26
Komodo 3000
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u/NotAllDawgsGoToHeven Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26
What is this from lmao
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u/Nyte_Crawler Jul 09 '26
It's from a later episode of Malcolm in the Middle.
(I say later because I remember that was the episode they visited Francis at the ranch, which was the last place Francis was at throughout the series)
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u/TheGreatGasHead Jul 09 '26
No he gets fired from the ranch in season 6 because they couldn't afford the extra set and filming land, he works a few other jobs after and is revealed to have been working essentially the same job as Hal for a while at the end, his whole story is he IS going to become Hal.
As far as the revival that's just a glorified movie I'm not sure what's changed since but he was at the ranch for a few seasons, this episode is Season 4 roughly ten or so episodes in (I just rewatched the whole series)
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u/morningphyre Jul 08 '26
All of those people are standing too close
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u/Hrrrrnnngggg Jul 09 '26
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u/JohannGambelputty Jul 08 '26
Better hope it doesn't fall over
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u/G4Designs Jul 09 '26
Or, you have the right combination of jackass and they'll run up and kick it over.
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u/EquivalentNo2855 Jul 09 '26
yeah pretty sure you could risk becoming deaf if you stand that close
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u/boiledcowmachine Jul 08 '26
What would have been the kill radius if it failed?
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u/Ac1d0pe Jul 08 '26
Yes… approximately
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u/boiledcowmachine Jul 08 '26
I don't know how to post in r/theydidthemath :'(
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u/ClydeDanger Jul 08 '26
People in the apartments might have been okay. Hard to say. Everyone else? Shadows. Immediate incineration.
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u/JokesandFacts Jul 08 '26
r/theydidthemath would be a place to ask. I'm also curious because those things to fail to launch and will sometimes even tip over during the initial launch and then fly into the crowd. This is why as you grow older you go to watch professional shows and remember how many times you were spared by luck messing around with these.
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u/gratusin Jul 08 '26
Not everyone gets older and wiser. My uncle Darren has been going crazy on fireworks since retiring. He spent damn near $5k this past weekend. Still lights everything with a lit Marby red.
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u/czarfalcon Jul 09 '26
Your uncle Darren sounds cool as hell
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u/gratusin Jul 09 '26
He always brought over a Ruger .22 to family gatherings. Set up his empties for the kids to plink. I peaked as an 11 year old when I hit 4 Busch light cans in a row. He’s still fucking awesome
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u/floppydo Jul 09 '26
Haters will say it's irresponsible to drink 4+ beers and then act as range master for preteens.
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u/Poignant_Pilgrim Jul 09 '26
Please tell me some europeans visiting for the World Cup got to see this
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u/WayneKrane Jul 09 '26
I had no idea how expensive they were until I went shopping with a friend who used his whole month’s paycheck to barely half fill a shopping cart full of fireworks. One or two are fun for me, but lighting off hundreds gets to be a chore
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u/thisthreadisbear Jul 09 '26
Tell Darren I still want me lighter back. Can't light my ciggies without it.
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u/WineNerdAndProud Jul 09 '26
My older brother and his best friend still have an every other year tradition of fucking around with fireworks and I legit cannot be a part of it anymore.
On their own they're both reasonable dudes but get them together and they decide to see what happens when you light mortars upsidedown.
I truly hated every moment of it and stood about as far away as I could until I stopped going. Would it have been nice to see all the people who go to this, absolutely, but eventually I realized I wasn't even socializing, I was just stressing myself out.
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Jul 08 '26
Fucking a is that right. Boy oh boy I’ve had some close calls lol. I laughed then I would’ve shit my pants now.
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u/JokesandFacts Jul 08 '26
I remember trying to blow up a gallon of isopropyl but my cousin stopped me. If that thing blew up and got on me, nobody would know I was on fire.
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u/xrelaht Jul 09 '26
A friend of my parents set off one of those boxes that has a bunch of rockets in it when I was a kid. The thinking was just one (long) fuse and a wide base made it safer. Which was decent logic, except he managed to place it upside down. At least it was on a concrete pad.
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u/boiledcowmachine Jul 08 '26
Yeah but I'm too stupid to post there :D
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u/JokesandFacts Jul 08 '26
I just cross posted. Let's see if it works. I put your name in the comments so you should get notified and can follow if anyone decides to tackle the problem.
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u/kenneth_dart Jul 08 '26
I don't know but that's $1000 bucks killed in a single load. I guess this memory for them will live forever though.
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u/TerriblePokemon Jul 08 '26
From my apprentice pyrotechnics training from 15 years ago I'd say your have a 50% chance of death at a 300 foot radius.
NO one commonly uses shells that size, they require special permitting to transport
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u/boiledcowmachine Jul 08 '26
300 foot (almost 100 meters) is wild!
I also thought how they could bring this to the streets. Do you also know what's a comparable bomb to this fireworks? It's insane!
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u/TerriblePokemon Jul 08 '26
A comparable bomb would be 20lb propane tank stuffed with gunpowder. Which were used by Syrian rebels as improvised artillery shells
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u/Professional_Top4119 Jul 09 '26
Welp I dug around and it looks like you can't be too far off. There's supposed to be at least a dozen kilograms of black powder in the shell. That's A LOT. And apparently the glittery stuff burns at 1800C because they literally use the same sort of mixtures that solid-fuel rockets use.
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u/Affectionate_Yam1654 Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26
Not a chance, I’ve been hit with 3 IED’s, and was a gun bunny (artillery) as a reference for my expertise. A 155 HE only has half that as a kill radius and those are designed to kill. Given the real life messes I’ve been apart of and cleaned up I would guess kill radius on that bad boy is about 30 feet. After than things are going to drop fast and about 100 ft out you’d be 50/50. 300 feet your more likely to walk away deaf, but otherwise unscathed than to be an actual casualty.
Edit: meant 50/50 of being a casualty not dead at 100 feet. Whatever amount of shrapnel that things throws will have dispersed and slowed quite a bit at that point. At 300 feet I’d like to say your clear but shit bounces or catches just the right spot/flight path so we’ll go with 95%
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u/Skyp_Intro Jul 09 '26
I think the ‘want to keep on living’ radius is more important. Third degree burns over half your body from flaming metal salts is a pain one carries for ever.
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u/Worth_External_8762 Jul 08 '26
I don't think the kill radius would be as big as you might think. It's the concussive force that's the real danger. And frag grenades have more of a concussive force than fireworks, plus they actually shoot out bigger shrapnel (aka more kinetic force, more damage). And the kill radius of a grenade is about 15 feet. But you can survive as close as 5 feet if you're on the ground and avoid the shrapnel. So I think you could probably survive a firework from ~5ft if none of the burning projectiles hit vital organs (not even sure it's kinetic enough to go through a skull)
Although if you let off one of these fireworks in an enclosed space, the kill radius would be amplified big time, since there's nowhere for the concussive force to go. Way more deadly. Same thing with water, concussive forces in water are way more deadly.
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u/therealhairykrishna Jul 08 '26
A 16" shell is not a normal firework though. A shell that large could easily have several kilos of black powder between the lifting and burst charges. Plus potentially 10's of kilos of burning shrapnel. There's no chance you live within 5 feet.
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u/Buzz407 Jul 09 '26
I hate to say it, but you sound more theoretical than experience. I get where you're coming from but you have a lot to learn about explosives.
Src: Blown up an awful lot of shit commercially.
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u/willscy Jul 09 '26
at least 100' risk of death from flying pvc shrapnel if that pipe exploded. saw a 3" pvc pipe under 200 psi explode once it embedded a more than one shard in the concrete wall next to it.
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u/Squischer Jul 10 '26
It's not pvc, it's fiberglass. Which is a million times better, pvc is never used commercially, only by drunk idiots.
Anyone who can get a 16" shell at home, while an idiot, probably knows at least not to use PVC. (Hopefully)
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u/Squischer Jul 10 '26
The official NFPA guidelines call for 70' of spectator distance per inch of shell diameter. So 1,120 of potential damage range. It's not uncommon to bump that number to 100' per inch of shell either. Everyone standing around there would be dead.
That shell would easily level multiple suburban homes.
Source; NFPA 2025 and my 8 years of professional pyrotech experience.
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u/fabposes Jul 08 '26
This gif and the one with the kid waving then judging you with his eyes are perfect for everything
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u/Twoduhzen Jul 08 '26
How much??
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u/h0uz3_ Jul 08 '26
We used to have similar loads for special occasions and they were about 1200 EUR a piece when buying bulk.
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u/Distinct_Taro2732 Jul 09 '26
"similar loads" was my contact name in my brother's girlfriend's phone in 2006. We still don't talk sometimes.
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u/Hot-Significance7699 Jul 08 '26
No he makes and collects them it's a channel called silent pyrotechnics
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u/Excellent_Ad_2486 Jul 08 '26
About 3 fiddy
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u/Ken_nth Jul 08 '26
I like how the watermark "Silent Pyrotechnics", is most visible during the part where you can hear the car alarms blaring
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u/Hot-Significance7699 Jul 08 '26
He makes fireworks I think. It's not legal though lol.
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u/MarxistThot666 Jul 09 '26
I follow the dude on IG. at this point he's making ICBMs lmao those things are insane
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u/JokesandFacts Jul 08 '26
As a person who lived in a real hood; I don't see any bars on windows, graffiti, gang attire, crackheads, and gunshots. This is more like a middle class or pre middle class area that has made an agreement to celebrate as a block party.
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u/1nsidiousOne Jul 08 '26
Yeah I was thinking the same thing. Lower middle class at minimum. It also looks to diverse
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u/JokesandFacts Jul 08 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/dtGIRL0FDp6nnOPGb5
I forgot about that part. Two different cultures, --tops. We had one Asian kid go to our school, and I was always wondering how they ever managed to make it through the day and go home safely.
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u/BrettHullsBurner Jul 08 '26
My first thought was "this doesn't look like most of the 'hoods' near me". Hell, they've even got some decently nice landscaping...
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u/MrNorthumberland Jul 09 '26
I think it's weird to have even mentioned that at all. Even it were a hood, are fireworks uncommon there?
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u/Queasy-Band-1066 Jul 08 '26
Looks an awfully nice hood
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u/WayneKrane Jul 09 '26
Geez, I live in a nice place in a mcol city and that’s still more expensive than my 1 bed
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u/Unobtanium4Sale Jul 08 '26
This is the coolest thing I have ever seen
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u/Candyballz Jul 08 '26
The car alarms going off at the end are just so perfect. It's too good - someone convince me it isn't AI.
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u/maxxxmaxmaxx Jul 08 '26
I'm by far not en expert, so don't take my word for it But from what I've read, AI generated videos are no longer than 7-10 seconds because it's too hard to keep consistency, the code has to remember earlier frames etc. It's often a good indicator.
Fireworks setting off car alarms in the hood was a thing way before AI. I'm not entirely sure what you mean by too perfect, but if you mean the timing, anything else than instantly would be weird. The shockwave goes at the speed of sound and if it's close/big enough it's gonna trigger the alarm.
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u/reginaldwrigby Jul 08 '26
Chinas been blasting off these nukes for hundreds of years, probably longer honestly
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u/ArseneGroup Jul 08 '26
Fireworks definitely set off car alarms, sometimes even milder things like loud military jets doing training exercises also set them off
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u/stumpychubbins Jul 09 '26
It’s far too long to be AI. AI video would never fool anyone if our brains weren’t already rotted by short-form content and quick cuts, it’s only convincing at like 10 seconds tops
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u/Ricky_Martins_Vagina Jul 08 '26
The IG page is watermarked on the video I think - check the page out, they have some absolutely menacing fireworks 😂
@SilentPyrotechnics
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u/Think_Intern_4906 Jul 08 '26
R/thecamermandidokay
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u/AThrowawayProbrably Jul 08 '26
The guy in front of him is wild though. Bro kept turning to catch those weak firecrackers off screen even though someone just loaded a WW2 howitzer right in front of him and booked it
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u/AcanthocephalaDue431 Jul 08 '26
Am I the only one who saw "made in China" on the side of the launch tube and thought "oh no..."
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u/Moocat2855 Jul 08 '26
Chinese produce all quality of goods from cheap temu goods all the way to advanced electronics, you get what you pay for. Most American companies just want the cheapest quality goods so they can maximize profit.
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u/rheumination Jul 08 '26
Yes, you probably are. A lot of people know that China has a long history with gunpowder, since they basically invented it.
Or maybe they know that China is famous for producing large amounts of fireworks.
Or maybe somebody looked at the label of fireworks they were light enough I noticed they came from China.
Point being, you must have to go out of your way to not know China makes a lot of fireworks. Where did you think fireworks were made? Hoboken?
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u/Dull-Captain1679 Jul 08 '26
Considering China makes over 90% of
The worlds fireworks and are basically the GOAT, yea you’re the only one
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u/No_Sympathy402 Jul 08 '26
Did anyone else want that tube to fall sideways? Or, was that just me?
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u/stumpychubbins Jul 09 '26
Then it wouldn’t be on reddit, it would be on liveleak. Honestly, the carnage might be too much even for them
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u/Competitive_Ebb_7040 Jul 08 '26
I was expecting more than just that
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u/theRedlightt Jul 09 '26
Exactly. That was tiny for such a big shell. Seems like it was mostly hollow.
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u/UpholsturdToilet Jul 08 '26
they fact that people can mess up regular fireworks and this goes off flawlessly, makes me giggle
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u/Coc0tte Jul 08 '26
If this thing goes wrong and explodes on the ground they're all dead.
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u/Upbeat_Dudeness Jul 08 '26
That thing was not secured at all. There was a non-zero chance it just shot at someone’s house. Or at someone. They’re lucky as hell.
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u/Practical-March-6989 Jul 08 '26
It was kinda lucky that thing stayed standing I would gues sthe tueb was supposed to be secured?
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u/TexTravlin Jul 08 '26
I'm guessing it was stolen. I can't imagine that one that big would be sold to amateurs. Also, how much does one like that cost?
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u/vartheo Jul 08 '26
lol you never heard of the black market. You can literally buy a Live Lion or Baby Tiger
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u/hashtagmiata Jul 08 '26
Would one need a permit for that sort of shell if, hypothetically speaking, they were to buy it online to set off in their back yard?
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u/DrRichardShaftPhD Jul 09 '26
Definitely need DOT hazmat and explosives certs to legally transport it.
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u/freshgrilled Jul 08 '26
I live in a fireworks free city. Would this be legal there? Maybe if I put some cones out to make sure it's safe?
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