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Dave Bunting
12/18/08

In reply to Lighters Will Blend, But Also Ultimately Pwn "Will It Blend" Blender
You can't film in slo-mo, you can only film in real time. You can present in slo-mo.

Just sayin'.
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GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
12/18/08

@Dave Bunting: The Grimace can.
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Purple Dave
12/19/08

@Dave Bunting:
Presenting slo-mo footage that doesn't look like you're watching a stack of flip-cards requires a high-speed camera which is specifically designed to film footage that will look slo-mo when run at a normal FPS. Therefore, you _can_ film in slo-mo. Sort of.
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PeterSimpson
12/18/08

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I'm having some trouble understanding how the fuel got under the blender in the first place. The lighter(s) are in the blender, covered with a lid (which doesn't even blow off, as I would have expected, once the fireball reached the level of the lid). Those lids seal pretty well, as does the base assembly. So how does the fuel get to the level of the motor?

I'm suspicious of something added to make the video more dramatic. Like some fuel gas blown into the base, maybe?
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GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
12/18/08

@PeterSimpson: I agree. I can understand that the blender motor cools by taking air from under the base and funneling it past the motor and out the base. The only way this would not be Bravo Sierra is that butane is more dense than air. So if they blended it with the little cover on the lid off or replaced with a mesh screen, as it blended, the butane would fill the jug, and flow over the sides, and then get sucked into the motor. It would then get a spark from the motor spinning, and might result in what we see.
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ceilingFANBOY
12/18/08

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This ranks right up there with trying to kill the ants in your vacuum cleaner with natural gas.
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Knirfie
12/18/08

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This looks more like 100 lighters and a few bottles of lighter fluid.

I've experienced often enough what happens when a lighter breaks or melts (in a fire). And the "explosion" is much smaller and gone within a fraction of a second.
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nutbastard
12/18/08

@Knirfie:

yeah but a regular lighter 'explosion' is just the release of the pressurized propane - even if you shoot a lighter, it tends to just release the gas, no ignite.

I modify my lighters in a way that allows me to put a thick wire loop on them, so they hang with my keys, and every time i'm filing the requisite grooves into the side i always think, i should probably be wearing safety goggles.
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nutbastard
12/18/08

@nutbastard: Don't blame me i voted for Ron Paul edition:

apologies all around, it's too fucking early to read every single little word in all y'alls comments to avoid redundancies / idiocy.

to the coffee with me.
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bboysca
12/18/08

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So...what WON'T blend?
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Purple Dave
12/19/08

@bboysca:
Mostly stuff that's too big to fit in the blender, or made of material that's harder than the blender blades. Like a depleted-uranium-clad tank.
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