Wonderful series of posts on horror reagents

wow wow wow

"What's not mentioned in the story is that once the upper valve to the stomach freezes, there is only one way for the gas to work itself of out the digestive tract." Kids, do not swallow liquid nitrogen.

"The layer of ice and snow covering everything in the lab tipped me off to the fact that the last helium vent must have plugged up."

some data points on the sensitivity and synthesis of various mixtures, as pertains to the plane scare

GIANT LASERS

I am 300 micropatrons away from panda steak

amazing wwii-era project to disseminate incendiary bomblets by strapping them to bats

military is up to something weird and loud

guns in space!

Russian article on how and why some methylated cyclohexane + chlorine mixtures explode when chilled to around 10K