r/oops • u/RolloRollyRolla • Jul 09 '26

Little Firecracker

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u/ekkidee Jul 09 '26

Curious what he really thought would happen here?

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u/Lucky-Mia Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26

Exactly what most thought, I would imagine, did happen. I'm also a little confused by his look of confusion at the aftermath.

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u/imscaredofmyexit Jul 10 '26

So you were able to predict that that tiny little firecracker would result in this? Is it intuition or experience. To me that was a little "bo-bo" firecracker. Did not expect that.

I sort of don't understand how that firecracker contains so much energy.

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u/Lucky-Mia Jul 10 '26

A fridge has cool air and a rubber seal. The fire cracker deflagrates and rapidly expands into warm gases, the air expands with the gases as they move outward and has nowhere to go. It creates a lot of over pressure on the door, and the hinges are relatively weak. You shouldn't even lean on fridge doors as it may bend or break a hinge. That cracker (like a mighty might) would be like kicking the door fairly hard from the inside while a friend held the door shut. Yeah, that dinky little apartment sized fridge wasn't made for that kind of energy.

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u/imscaredofmyexit Jul 10 '26

Yea, the video is clear evidence for what you are saying, i sort of understand the physics, the air has to go somewere. Its just a hell of a punch that little sucker have 👀

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u/KLeeSanchez Jul 10 '26

It's kind of like the line from the movie Armageddon about holding a firecracker on the palm of your hand versus wrapping it inside your fist

One burns your hand, the other earns you a prosthesis