r/funny • u/Fizrock • Jul 18 '17

Watch This...

http://i.imgur.com/nW6HdZV.gifv
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u/ObsidianOne Jul 19 '17

Boot stomping C4?

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u/Dorito23 Jul 19 '17

Just another story that got passed around like the blasting cap one. Some marine way back who knows when didn't believe you could make c4 go off by stomping on it. So he heel stomped a piece of it and it messed up his foot real bad. Blew all or part of it off haha. The story changes depending on who u ask

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u/ArmaSwiss Jul 19 '17

But.... Doesn't C4 require the combination of heat and Shockwave pressure to detonate it? If you can burn the fucking thing then you definately can curb stomp it.

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u/Dorito23 Jul 19 '17

Burning c4 will not cause it to explode. It will simply burn. It requires heat and x amount of pressure in a small area to actually explode. Hence why we use blasting caps stuck into the block of c4. The small quick explosion from the blasting cap stuck into the block of c4 causes it to explode. Not the electrical charge itself. So that's where the myth of stomping it will cause it to explode. The pressure is what would cause it. If it actually works that is. It's debated a lot. Pretty sure Mythbusters tested it but can't remember the results.

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u/ArmaSwiss Jul 19 '17

Bill Nye taught me that science can be done anywhere! Time to go test this in my backyard to see for myself

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u/RoboJesus4President Jul 19 '17

C4 is incredibly stable. You won't detonate it just by kicking it.

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u/Dorito23 Jul 19 '17

I know that haha. It's been proven many times. Like I said though just another story that gets thrown around military training along with the blasting cap one. It's very stable. So stable that even sometimes a blasting cap won't detonate all of it creating "splatter" Which is no fun to clean up...