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To: yesthatjallen

When I was in middle/high school, we would take thin plastic garbage bags, fill them with natural gas from the chemistry lab, tie them shut, attach a long paper streamer which we would light with a lighter as we released them outside. They would float up and them go ‘poof’ in a big fireball.

I would not be surprised that this is just some college prank.


6 posted on 10/02/2023 1:04:24 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Magnum44
Same prank was played at Georgia Tech in the 70s.

When they got in between the tall buildings south of campus, there was impressive reverberation!

27 posted on 10/02/2023 1:46:50 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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To: Magnum44

No no way. This looks like a natural gas explosion


44 posted on 10/02/2023 3:32:51 PM PDT by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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