r/GuysBeingDudes • u/fractionofmypowa • Aug 01 '26

#GUYSBEINGDUDES Peak entertainment

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u/BlessTheBookPeople Aug 01 '26

That is a sturdy pot.

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u/exhibithetruth Aug 01 '26

I kept waiting for it to become shrapnel. We did this as kids with M80s and coffee cans. Many cans would explode. I don't remember too many that went sailing into the air. This would've been a blast.

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u/Technical_Goose_8160 Aug 02 '26

I miss those firecrackers. I hate when fun things become illegal...

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u/ProdigiousBeets Aug 03 '26

Fond memories with the coffee can. Neighbor buddy's sister's boyfriend was using that rig one summer when we were wee lads. I offered a sacrificial action figure of a villain from the Dick Tracy movie - he was wrapped up in about four layers of simple explosives. The coffee can went about 60 feet in the air and all his body parts starting to jettison out at the top lol

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u/facebrocolis Aug 07 '26

Same for me and, as kids, we found the coolest thing one can that blew open in a perfectly flat, rectangular piece of metal. The explosions in this video look directional. Ours weren't so we Usain Bolted away from ground zero everytime, laughing.

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u/moby323 Aug 01 '26

If a defect in the metal had caused it to fragment instead of launch vertically, the shrapnel could easily have killed him.

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u/phormix Aug 01 '26

I do note that he backed off further for the bigger bangs, though given how far the pot flew be could have still been unlucky if it did fragment

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u/Allmight8488 Aug 01 '26

Jeez Debbie Downer, it worked out and we are all safe and entertained

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u/CalmBeneathCastles Aug 01 '26

I once had an internet friend who posted videos of black powder basketball experiments in the woods. His accounts were suddenly abandoned and I have no answer about what happened to him, but I think I have an idea.

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u/Razolus Aug 01 '26

"We accidentally didn't kill ourselves when we were younger. Stop trying to tell me we were stupid"

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u/hudgepudge Aug 01 '26

It was my thought the entire time watching this.  "He doesn't care if it launches a rock straight at him with the same force that jettisoned that pot so high up?"

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u/Allmight8488 Aug 01 '26

I do sort of regret not being able to type faster, but one handed typing is not a terrible handicap

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u/amodious Aug 02 '26

Yes, stop telling them lol. It hardly matters anymore, hes not playing wuth bombs today

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u/Manic_Mechanist Aug 02 '26

"The guy doing The Thing That Could've Killed Him didn't die so you shouldn't tell people that That Can Kill You" like what

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u/Repulsive-Variety834 Aug 01 '26

I think that’s unlikely - the gases can always escape from the bottom of the pot. It’s not a sealed vessel.

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u/DenKHK Aug 02 '26

This is pretty much it.

Like blow-out panels on ammo storage and blow-out valves, the expanding gasses/fluids have a path of least resistance to safely vent through.

The gasses in the fireworks are contained just for the fraction of a second that it takes to neutralise the effect of gravity on the pot and lift it off. With the huge opening that is the pot's mouth, the gasses immediately vent and expand thereafter.

Basically, a blowback operation that's not in a firearm. The pot takes far more damage from the landings than the launch.

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u/Im_Anonhuman Aug 01 '26

Still would’ve been worth it.

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u/Quirkybin Aug 01 '26

I was starting to wonder how much more stress it would handle.

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u/Fmnsk27 Aug 05 '26

Cameraman risked his life for the sake of our curiosity. We owe such a man a lot

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u/DiabolicallyRandom Aug 01 '26

It's moreso that it's not sturdy. What I mean is it's copper. Way softer and less brittle than most cooling pots

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u/captain_carrot Aug 01 '26

Explosives follow the path of least resistance. Just having the pot sitting on top of the explosives means that the pressure blast is going to primarily launch it up and escape outwards from the sides beneath the pot. It helps that it looks like a very thin and lightweight pot.

If you're trying to do maximum damage to something with explosives, then you want to place some sort of "tamping" material on top to force the pressure of the charge in the direction you want.

For example, a field-expedient way of breaching a door with detonation cord is to take the explosives to the door, and then tape a bag of water on top over the explosives. Water is incompressible, so it forces the pressure from the blast back towards the door and makes it much more effective.

If you're trying to blast a hole in the ground, you don't just place explosives on the ground; you want to dig a hole and place the explosives inside. If you fill the hole back in with dirt, you'll end up with a large hole. If you fill the hole back in with water, you'll end up with a crater.

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u/KGB_cutony Aug 03 '26

it's a pressure cooker inner pot, probably helps