10 thoughts on “how to blow up a frozen lake”

1. Wow. Quite spectacular, but am glad there were no fish in the lake.

2. That is a great video. I will have to share it with my chemistry class. It is one thing to see a simple sodium example in class and quite another to see a video like this. I hope I can spur it to a short discussion on the dangers of disposing chemicals willy nilly. Of course, this wasn’t willy nilly- they checked the lake for fish first.

3. Wow. Cool.

   My tenth-grade chem teacher took us all outside, where he filled a five-gallon plastic pickle bucket with water. He then cautiously unwrapped a chunk of sodium about twelve inches long and four across.

   He proceeded to try and cut off a chunk, but his rubber gloves made handling difficult. The knife was dull, and instead of cutting, it stuck into the lump and pulled it from his hand.

   There was a second in which he stared with horror as the lump arced gracefully into the bucket, then a short bark of “augh!” as he and we vacated, slightly ahead of the bang.

   The explosion blew out a first-floor classroom window and caused mass distraction throughout the school.

   As a mate of mine said in the smoking area (remember when schools had those?):

   “Wow. Cool.”

4. Do you have any videos of meth labs blowing up? That would be way cool too.

5. ok, i give up. what does the video have to do with squid (one of the labels you attached to this entry)?

6. Well, what do you think the Squid thought of this? It is an attack on their watery realm! Y’hanthlei was attacked in just such a manner, but lived to see another day.

   Alas, no video of meth labs blowing up. But check YouTube: those morons videotape EVERYTHING!

7. The Most Honourable the Marchioness of Witchhampton

   My Lady Marchioness

   This is very troubling – have Gallons of Sodium peroxide been circulating for the last 60 years just above Antarctica, creating the hole in the Ozone Layer

   Is your Grace able to reassure us that no Tree Octopus suffered in the making of or as a consequence of this Film

   Your Grace’s obedient servant etc

   G E

8. Absolutely no Tree Octopus suffered during the production of this video. The hole in the ozone layer is caused by the hydrogen gasses resulting from political speeches, both in the UK and the US.

   I love this video; nobody gets blown up. The only possible victim is unicellular, anaerobic bacteria for whom nobody could cheer. How rare are the opportunities to roar approval at victories unsullied by moral stricture.

9. Typical. Slip in that subtle line that “nobody could cheer” for bacteria. Thus do the evil opponents of lifefromial bacterial individuals (the preferred term nowadays, thanks) demonize them. Armed with this caricature they are allowed to perpetrate their slaughter unopposed.

   Remember–“First they came for the anaerobics, and I stayed silent, because I was not anaerobic …”

10. I should have known you were on the side of the germs.

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