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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2519834/Woman-left-fighting-life-sparking-huge-explosion-lighting-cigarette-wearing-oxygen-mask.html

It's called natural selection. Let it do its job.

 djones520 wrote:
It's called natural selection. Let it do its job.

Sad thing is people are trying to keep it from doing that...

 juraigamer wrote:

 djones520 wrote:
It's called natural selection. Let it do its job.

Sad thing is people are trying to keep it from doing that...

If by people, you mean governments and corporations, yeah

Reminds me of the time a couple dishwashers accidentally made Mustard Gas at the restaurant my brother was working at.

A couple people had to be hospitalized but everyone ended up OK thankfully.

My neighbour keeps his pool chlorine and brake fluid in the same cabinet, stacked on top of each other.


I had to show him what happens when they mix.
He was more in awe of the "awesome green flames" than of the fact that it can explode in a confined space and that smoke is toxic as all get out.

I find most people are ignorant of even basic chemistry (why else would they be so amazed by mentos and coke experiments?)

This is common knowledge/common sense not basic science. In my opinion. It doesnt take a science class to make people smarter haha.

I was at a hospital and saw someone in a room that was going to do a smudge ceromony while standing by someone in a bed that was unconcious and on oxygen. Fortunatly other people in the room stopped her...

You can smoke on oxygen, the cigarette just doesn't last as long

Reminds of a story I read earlier this year. A couple were in a motel making hash oil from marijuana, using butane as the solvent. Then one of them decides to go into the bathroom for a smoke.
Fortunately, I do not believe the people in the adjoining rooms were injured by the explosion. Equally fortunately, the smoker removed himself from the gene pool.

 chromedog wrote:
pool chlorine... brake fluid..."awesome green flames"... smoke is toxic.

I'll uh.... I'll be right back.

I knew about the smoke and flames from chemistry class.
That and a misspent youth.

I had to look it up in the library, using the dewey-decimal system - nowadays, kids have google and STILL can't be arsed to learn.

Do kids even know what this is anymore?

 d-usa wrote:
Do kids even know what this is anymore?

Honestly, I pray that libraries catch up on digital cataloging, because those things are torture.

 Eldarain wrote:
Reminds me of the time a couple dishwashers accidentally made Mustard Gas at the restaurant my brother was working at.

A couple people had to be hospitalized but everyone ended up OK thankfully.

How the feth do you accidentally make Mustard Gas in a dishwasher?

Funny thing about that article is that it's also wrong about the science... She didn't set fire to the oxygen. More accurately the oxygen helped her set fire to everything else...

 Grey Templar wrote:

 Eldarain wrote:
Reminds me of the time a couple dishwashers accidentally made Mustard Gas at the restaurant my brother was working at.

A couple people had to be hospitalized but everyone ended up OK thankfully.

How the feth do you accidentally make Mustard Gas in a dishwasher?

It involved an extremely flawed line of thinking.

If the chemicals they were told to add to the mop bucket cleaned the floor, pouring other random bottles in should clean the floor that much quicker.

chromedog wrote:I knew about the smoke and flames from chemistry class.
That and a misspent youth.

I had to look it up in the library, using the dewey-decimal system - nowadays, kids have google and STILL can't be arsed to learn.

Well I found the brake fluid. I didn't find any chlorine though.
However, in the coming days, if you see on the news a someone has gassed himself and possibly his family in some failed science experiment. That'll be me!
Keep an eye out.

Eldarain wrote:It involved an extremely flawed line of thinking.

Ah flawed lines of thinking. By far the best lines of thinking. It usually produces the best kind of results. Such as, in this instance, mustard gas!

 d-usa wrote:
Do kids even know what this is anymore?

I actually have no idea what that is...


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 d-usa wrote:
Do kids even know what this is anymore?

I actually have no idea what that is...

I don't know wether you should be sad or happy...

Edit:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_catalog

That picture is what used to be the library version of Google. You picked an author or topic and searched through those thousands of cards for books related to your search. Then you wrote down all the Dewey numbers and worked your way through the library to find each book, then you read through the books to see if they even have anything to do with what you were searching for, then you do it again and again...

It was a nightmare...

Those are the things we used to find free books before BitTorrent.

That just sounds painful

Then somebody had the bright idea to say "hey, lets just put the section description next to the DD number on the rack"

 Grey Templar wrote:
Then somebody had the bright idea to say "hey, lets just put the section description next to the DD number on the rack"

n00b level for libraries!

I seriously wonder why the Dewey Decimal system was ever considered useful.

What better system could there be than organizing every book by subject material and then alphabetically by title. Much easier to find a particular book that way than have to sort by an arbitrary number system.

 Grey Templar wrote:
Then somebody had the bright idea to say "hey, lets just put the section description next to the DD number on the rack"

You just put DD and rack in the same post and didn't get a warning.

This thread reminds me of the Black Friday weekend working at the GW store in the local mall...
And some idiot line cook at the East Side Mario's sprayed down the salamander oven, then told some front-of-house staffer to turn the thing on because they'd forgotten too...

3 fire engines, 2 buses and a whole craptone of police cruisers later show up, and we got to spend a lovely 2+ hours outside watching the sparkly lights and the mall's parking lot moving.

Our sales totals sucked that day.

 kronk wrote:

 Grey Templar wrote:
Then somebody had the bright idea to say "hey, lets just put the section description next to the DD number on the rack"

You just put DD and rack in the same post and didn't get a warning.

And with your avatar Kronk, you must be quite please ad that... you just keep on applauding

Experiment 626 wrote:
This thread reminds me of the Black Friday weekend working at the GW store in the local mall...
And some idiot line cook at the East Side Mario's sprayed down the salamander oven, then told some front-of-house staffer to turn the thing on because they'd forgotten too...

3 fire engines, 2 buses and a whole craptone of police cruisers later show up, and we got to spend a lovely 2+ hours outside watching the sparkly lights and the mall's parking lot moving.

Our sales totals sucked that day.

Hey I've been to that mall!!

and I'm Merican!!

GG

 Grey Templar wrote:
I seriously wonder why the Dewey Decimal system was ever considered useful.

What better system could there be than organizing every book by subject material and then alphabetically by title. Much easier to find a particular book that way than have to sort by an arbitrary number system.

Dewey Decimal was pretty handy for research, as you could look up a single subject and be given dozens of books that might help your research on a subject. But that's only true once you get to university level research (or possibly advanced high school), before then the teacher is giving you the name of the one book you need to read, and then making you go through the Dewey system to locate it in the library in some kind of really boring hide and seek game.