When they said "BB gun" I had my doubts. But that was a hell of a bang!
Cheesy music, though.

So much work for something so fleeting. Gotta love boredom.

Hmm. I'm not yelling "fake", but I don't think a BB gun could generate the force required.

I once did that with a box of whipper snappers, but that's only 50 combined into one. It wasn't anywhere near this big of course, but it was bigger than everyone watching expected.

The reason that the bb gun was enough to make it explode was that the compression from the sticky tape made it possible for a couple of them going off to detonate all of it. If you watch the slow motion portion you can see the top of the ball, and it was pretty clearly not destroyed. My guess would be that the top was not taped down well enough and was ejected by the chaos below.

Tags changed from "gunpowder, caps, explosoin" to "gunpowder, caps, explosion" by gold star member Fjnbk.

If you take a sphere of high purity Silly Putty and implode it within a shell of compressed caps, you can cause Silly Fission, it yields about two cups of Play-Dough and a ton of nitrous oxide.

" BOOM!!! "


"slow motion...."

LOL @ deathcow

i remember caps... aren't they banned now (in the uk) - some do gooding legislation about explosives or some such nonesense?

Was anyone else really underwhelmed and disappointed?

Interesting. Music was heinous though. At least stop it during the booms.

Knowing how sensitive they were to friction, I'd be a little concerned that somewhere in the process of wrapping 100,000 (or even just 10,000) of the buggers into a ball I might jostle something ever-so-gently and end up 8 fingers short of a full set.
Even watching them plop it down onto the fencepost at the end had me cringing.

Clearly only highly-trained pool skimmers and rodeo clowns should attempt this stunt!

Not really that impressive on video and with music in the background.

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We used to hit these with rocks on the sidewalk in front of the house when I was a kid (late 60s, early 70s). Capguns were fun, too. My Colt must have killed more German soldiers than there were real German soldiers, and it beat yelling "uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh!"

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