Cutting Steel With Flaming Bacon Weapons 73
Ed Pegg writes "Theo Gray demonstrates the Bacon Lance, a flaming meatsword that can cut through steel. Yes, with some ordinary bacon, and some pure oxygen, it's possible to cut through security doors. Form the article, 'I recently committed myself to the goal, before the weekend was out, of creating a device entirely from bacon and using it to cut a steel pan in half. My initial attempts were failures, but I knew success was within reach when I was able to ignite and melt the pan using seven beef sticks and a cucumber.' This comes out right after his profusely illustrated book of science experiments, Mad Science."
Reminds me... (Score:4, Interesting)
Theodore Gray (Score:5, Informative)
Is also known as the guy who made a periodic table table [theodoregray.com] (for which he was awarded an Ig Nobel Prize).
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Depending, of course - but on what, I can't say.
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Why does she have to be hot? You can't see all that well in a broom closet anyway...
You want to come out of the closet to cheers, not jeers ;-)
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Careful.. if you ever actually come out of the closet, she might turn out to be a man!
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There's even a 3D periodic table jigsaw [sciencemall-usa.com].
I don't know (Score:2, Interesting)
Is it me or does that picture look like a melted 'pleasure device' on fire?
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Is it me or does that picture look like a melted 'pleasure device' on fire?
Or as the amazing FZ [zappa.com] would say, a "lonely person device".
Um... (Score:5, Funny)
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I just had this thought that this is one "Tool" that Islam will not use to "build" with...
Prosciutto is not bacon (Score:3, Insightful)
It's ham. But I still have to wonder if the expensive imported varieties make a better thermal lance than the cheap, domestic product
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OP:
TFA:
Re:Prosciutto is not bacon (Score:4, Informative)
And TFA is wrong.
Prosciutto is an expensive salt cured ham. You do not need to cook it. Even if it came from the same part of the pig and was otherwise identical to bacon(which it isn't) the salt curing would be more than enough to make it different. It's chemically different than regular(or even canadian) bacon and at the least contains a whole heck of a lot of salt which regular bacon does not.
Re:Prosciutto is not bacon (Score:4, Funny)
I've made bacon and I know the truth, you can't handle the truth.
Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls need to be guarded by men with flaming bacon lances.
Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lieutenant Weinberg? That ain't kosher.
I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago and curse the Marines; you have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know: that Santiago's death, while tragic, probably saved your bacon, and that my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives.
You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that wall; you need me on that wall. We use words like honor, code, prosciutto. We use them as the backbone of a life trying to defend something. You use them as a punchline.
I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under a blanket of the very bacon I provide and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said "thank you," and went on your way.
Otherwise, I suggest that you pick up a bacon lance and stand a post. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you are entitled to.
n who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very bacon I provide and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said "thank you," and went on your way.
Otherwise, I suggest that you pick up a bacon lance and stand a post. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you are entitled to.
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That's what I get for over-proofreading and copying and pasting too many times.
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This is why fat chicks are hot (Score:1)
Well, the potential's always there...
Bacon AK-47 (Score:1)
Meatsword? Really? (Score:4, Funny)
Dear Ed,
However many times you considered and reconsidered using the world "meatsword" in your summary, double it next time. Unless it was fewer than three, in which case, double that.
This guideline clearly doesn't apply if you're writing slash fiction. (Which, I might add, might be a fine way for you to channel this sort of thing in the future.)
Other than that, I think you should follow this guideline.
Thanks,
Peter
new meaning to bringing home the bacon (Score:2)
this adds new meaning to the old adage "bringing home the bacon"...in this case...a tool for cutting/welding steel
That is more real for the Jedis (Score:1)
I never buy light.
i gotta say it (Score:2, Funny)
yea go ahead and mod me down, i deserve it.
but it was worth it.
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You don't get it - the bacon itself is the fuel for the lance.
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Nope. Oxygen does not burn, it can't generate heat by itself and you can't cut steel with pure oxygen.
Bacon provides hydrocarbons which burn in the pure oxygen.
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Actually you can cut steel with pure oxygen - its called a cutting torch. With a cutting torch the flame is only there to get the metal up to the ignition point, after which the metal itself burns in the stream of oxygen. Once you get a cutting torch going and a cut started, you can actually turn off the actylene and continue with just the oxygen jet going.
In the first video when you see the sparks flying, thats the metal buring in the oxygen rich flow.
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Parent is correct. I had an oxy-propane torch for cutting and the torch handle has two mixing valves and then a trigger lever. You adjust the mixing valves to get a nice hot flame and then start to heat the metal. once it gets to the point where it begins to get yellow hot and starts to melt you squeeze the lever and out come a stream of oxygen. Then you start seeing sparks fly! At that point the flame isn't doing any cutting, the oxygen is.
The "bacon" lance is a thermal lance that is made of meat. A real thermal lance is easy to make.You take a 1/2 piece of steel pipe, pack it full of thin steel rods and just connect a valve to one end that is hooked to an oxygen tank. You light it with a cutting torch and it works like the torch, only it does not have its own gaseous fuel source but instead burns the steel. They can punch holes through concrete and slice steel I beams like a hot knife through butter. As the lance burns it gets shorter, that is why some are upward of eight to ten feet long. If you ever get to see a bridge or overpass demolished you will see thermal lances used to cut the beams and anchors.
The best story in a while (Score:1)
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You mean your friend bought diamonds to have his meat cut...er polished.
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You mean your friend bought diamonds to have his meat cut...er polished.
The meaning entirely depends on how kinky his friend is :-p
"entirely from bacon" (Score:1)
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Meatsword? (Score:2)
It's actually more of a meatclaymore, but let's not get bogged down in the details.
Hokey religions and ancient weapons... (Score:5, Funny)
Ahh, the bacon laser sword. The chosen weapon of the Cheddar Monks.
An elegant weapon, from a more civilized age.
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A mod point, a mod point..a 2 year old cheddar for a mod point!
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Ahh, the bacon laser sword. The chosen weapon of the Cheddar Monks.
An elegant weapon, from a more civilized age.
Hmn. Wouldn't it being the weapon of Cheddar monks make it from a more 'cultivated' age?
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Oblig (Score:3, Funny)
In Soviet Russia, bacon fry pan!
Kindom of Loathing (Score:2, Informative)
Sounds like a weapon right out of that game. And if not, I can imagine them adding it in after this.
This book is hot (Score:1)
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Prevent heart attacks.
Not Kosher! (Score:2)
(can't believe I'm the first to say it)
Real Meat for Rocket Motors (Score:5, Informative)
Mythbusters confirmed (episodes 51 and 64) a story about using salami http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_(season_4)#Salami_Rocket [wikipedia.org] as fuel in a hybrid rocket motor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_rocket [wikipedia.org] , with nitrous oxide as an oxidizer. Their contention was that it was or could have been done in the US civil war. It was done in fact by an amateur rocketer. Oxidizing hydrocarbons produces energy, whether it's kerosene/LOX (a common combination since the V2) or lipids/Nox.
Not exactly what I was expecting to wake up to. (Score:1)
*Makes coffee*
*Check Slashdot, reads about steel-cutting bacon swords*
I see. Apparently I did not, in fact, adequately complete the first step in my regular morning routine. That is, waking up.
Sorry, but *yawn*. (Score:2)
In some class during my first year at the university, the professor used to cut through metal with a cigar (that had been dipped in liquid oxygen).
Way cooler, since it also involved cryogenic liquids.