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'Tis the Season to be Noisy.



My younger son, fresh out of high school, is trying his entrepreneurial
wings by managing a fireworks stand. (Hereabouts, these are necessarily
outside the city limits, and the day time ambient is into the nineties).

He reports that boredom is the major preoccupation, so he brightened when
some youthful customers showed him the trick du jour.

He demonstrated it for me: take a coke can one third full of water,
and place in it, a lit "depth charge". [This is a waterproof black cat
style banger of 5 X 0.5 cm L X D]

The can takes off to an altitude of 2 or 3 meters. There is a little
spray of liquid too. How does this work, would you say?

Obligatory Caution:
Note, this trick is dangerous, and can be disfiguring, if one
does not "retire after lighting the touch paper".


brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net> Altus OK
Eureka!