Super!

[pasithea]

I think this will make paka slick with his own fluids. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2oEP3RWppA&feature=player_embedded

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[paka.livejournal.com]

That is pretty cool. Pyro was one of the few characters in X-Men United whose point of view made any sense.

[paradox-puree.livejournal.com]

that's hawt.

Makes me keep wishing I had the time to learn microcontrollers and mechanical things like that.

Alas, I have other priorities.

[ff00ff.livejournal.com]

Urge to fight crime with 3rd degree burns rising ...

Prometheus, the god of the sea ... uh... right?

[ff00ff.livejournal.com]

The US military stopped using flame throwers voluntarily, there being no international convention against them, because the holder of such a weapon would invariably suffer from one of two kinds of illness. First, the oxygen deprivation and unconsumed gas fumes would eventually make the operator of a flame thrower violently physically ill, likely not before causing him minor to moderate irreparable brain damage. Second, one who successfully deployed such a weapon in combat would see human horror that would trigger complete mental collapse within weeks at most, or on the spot, since it's fairly universally recognized that watching someone burn to death--causing someone to burn to death--is pretty much one of the most horrifying things a person could ever see. The post traumatic stress induced by merely killing someone relatively cleanly with a gun, alive one minute, then dead the next, is gentle compared to incapacitating them with pain and watching them flail and roll and scream and die over a course of minutes as happens with fire. If someone is able to stand using that sort of weapon they probably shouldn't have it in the first place.


That said, In my sci-fi war fantasies I'll totally be using a palm mounted flame thrower for close quarters combat instead of something conventional like a knife or bayonet. Fuckin' awesome.

Re: Prometheus, the god of the sea ... uh... right?

[prickvixen.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, interesting and useful details.

Re: Prometheus, the god of the sea ... uh... right?

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

I dunno... I've encountered people who relish putting a lobster in boiling water and people who enjoy feeding live animals to snakes and the like. I think people's ability to cope with watching another entity suffer is higher than we generally give them credit for.

Re: Prometheus, the god of the sea ... uh... right?

[ff00ff.livejournal.com]

Arthropods don't count in any way. Cruelty to those chitinous bastards must be written in to us on a genetic level because frankly I'm thinking about taking a jackhammer to a horseshoe crab at this very moment.

But yeah, I always got mildly ill when seeing the feeder mice cage at the pet store :(. I mean, go ahead and eat the vermin out in the wold, snakes, its what you were made to do, and lord knows they breed too fast without predators to keep them eaten. But for a person to keep a snake and import mice to pamper it with is sort of a horse of a different color. That's not the kind of nature appreciation I'd like to appreciate on a regular basis.

Re: Prometheus, the god of the sea ... uh... right?

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

*sad snakey eyes*

[silverbrand.livejournal.com]

Having had a subscription to Make magazine since it's inception, I have seen this guy doing stuff since v1 of that thing. The LEDs on the sprayer are new.