Monday, March 16, 2009
Pyrotechnics Explained
Geeksaresexy.net: "I’ve found a blog that can easily suck up a pyrotechnic geek’s (or anyone’s) day. Sure, it’s attached to a commercial company, but that doesn’t make it any less interesting. Confessions of a Fireworks Man has stories from the business, fireworks history, and loads of instructions for projects that you should not try at home."
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The fact that sites like this exist somewhat scares me. As a guy I like to watch explosions, and controlled explosions are some of the coolest since their less of a chance of horribly burning yourself. Now, the fact that there is a site out there that details how to make things that go BOOM is not something that sits completely well with me. I've had enough professionally made fire works go wrong while using them, I'm not sure I want to see what happens when the home grown ones don't work as they're supposed to.
This sounds like it would be really cool, but in the proper hands. Like Charley said, this idea really scares me. The blog will allow anyone to access the information necessary to create explosions. I don't want some little 7 year old kid to be able to make the pretty things that light up the sky in his bedroom, and then see everything go BOOM. If there are professionals in this field because of the danger it poses, I'm baffled as to why we would let the masses of public access that.
Why provide the information if you do not intend for people to use it. The fact that the lead-line for this article says that it provides instructions on what should not be done at home is ridiculous. This, found by the wrong people could end in major damage to things or major injury to people.
If anyone wanted to make a dangerous explosive there are plenty of ways to find that out. This has a caution attached to it, and as such the author has done what he can. This is a common problem with free-ware. The author should not be criticized for sharing his experiences. Just because his job is dangerous he shouldn't be allowed to blog about it?
I think that site like this should be made somehow(don't ask me how) so that only ppl who should look at them do, but this is really dangerous. There are a unch of ppl out there that may even use this to do damage instead of only for recreation.
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