>> ^RedSky:

Wait a minute, you have 3 LITRE bottles of soda in the US? That's outrageous!


Yes, but it's usually only the generic stuff, like "Red Pop" and "Orange Fizz". My personal favorite is Faygo's "Moon Mist".

I can't say I've ever seen a 3 liter of Pepsi or Coca-Cola....

Your video, Can a dry-ice bomb blow up a cinderblock?, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

Anything that helps in your bold push to silver diamond. I think the ruby is kinda ugly, myself.

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thanks for the promote!

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*promote

thanks for the promote!

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*promote

This video has been declared a duplicate; transferring votes to the original video and killing this dupe - dupeof declared by MarineGunrock.

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try again without the quotes. thanks

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*dupeof="http://www.videosift.com/video/Dry-Ice-Idiots"

I updated the tags original as well. No wonder the dupe checker missed it.

*dupeof="http://www.videosift.com/video/Dry-Ice-Idiots"

I updated the tags original as well. No wonder the dupe checker missed it.

>> ^gwiz665:
And for those who don't know, sublimation is a phase transition that skips a step. Here from solid to gas, instead of liquid.

Right. It's nature's perpetual bachelor. Always looking to skip marriage and get straight to the fuckin'. Only under intense pressure will it conform and go into liquid phase.

I have a block of this stuff a friend from HP gave me. It crumbles very easily, and playing with it means you always end up with a little less than you started with. It's cool to shine a laser through it and see the path. I did the blowtorch thing, too, and it works. It also floats on the 'smoke' jut above dry ice if there's enough dry ice in a container like an ice chest.

It's unfortunate that there are people who suffer from this affliction, they put doctors in a difficult position because I'm sure no doctor wants to cut off a perfectly healthy limb, but some of the past cases of this have gone so far as to sit in garbage cans full of dry ice in order to force the amputation, so I suppose it's probably least harmful to just perform the amputations before the person risks death to force the issue.

I wonder though, when you see pictures of people who have radical body modifications(piercings, tattoos, plastic surgery, etc.), does that person also suffer from a similar disorder, just on a different scale?

@ peggedpea: I completely agree with you about gastric bypass. I hate that it has become such a popular "treatment" for obesity. The ridiculous part is that if the surgery wasn't performed, but the patient was put on the same nutritional regimen the same weight loss would be seen. That's why I think they should require a person to follow the post-surgery diet plan for 6 months prior to performing the surgery so that people would realize it's the alteration of their lifestyle that is the source of the weight loss, not the dangerous and permanently debilitating medical procedure.

My father in law is morbidly obese, and seeking to undergo gastric bypass, but I cannot convince him that it is needlessly risky, and that if he'd just eat healthier/smaller meals, he'd lose the weight. But he'd rather endanger his life, than to voluntarily change his lifestyle. I'm more saddened by this because he's not even 40 yet.

I put 'dry ice' in the tags hoping that is what I am seeing. If anyone knows how to duplicate this exactly, please let me know.

That looks like a smaller dry ice bomb inside a 40 gallon garbage can filled with water.

"I hope we can understand, my friends, that life is not 24 and Jack Bauer..."

Scott Horton and Andrew Sullivan comment...

"The moral clarity and vision of McCain’s answer was perfectly balanced by the bankruptcy of Romney’s. In the end, the former Massachusetts governor ducks by saying that he would turn to his ultimate guru for guidance: Cofer Black, the Vice Chair of Blackwater USA. Mr. Black is known for his bravado, including a pledge to the White House that he would send them Osama bin Laden’s head in a box packed with dry ice. But of course it was Mr. Black who failed in efforts to catch bin Laden and other al Qaeda leaders as they disappeared into the caves and ravines of Tora Bora. He moved from that high accomplishment to Blackwater, which is now engulfed in a series of scandals reflecting questionable management practices. Moreover, CIA officers complain that Black’s move to Blackwater entailed the privatization of vital national security relationships for personal profit, another hallmark of abuse in the Bush Administration.

McCain is turning for guidance to American military tradition and ethics. Romey on the other hand draws on Hollywood cartoons and adventurists. It’s quite a difference. And at the moment, it looks like the Republican base will take Chuck Norris over George Washington and Dwight Eisenhower any day.

Among the other candidates in the Republican field, Huckabee is clearly in the process of transforming his position on the torture question. He’s drawing closer to John McCain’s view with each passing debate. I’ll go out on a limb and say we’ll soon see three Republican candidates taking a clear-cut anti-torture position: John McCain, Ron Paul and Mike Huckabee. Not coincidentally, the first two are the Republican candidates who consistently draw the most support from the active-duty military. Huckabee is clearly intent on pitching more effectively to the same community."

- Scott Horton

"It's a defining issue and this was a defining moment. Romney's pathetic and despicable inability to say that he opposes waterboarding and that waterboarding is torture disqualifies him from the presidency, in my view. If we are going to recover from the profound moral disgrace of the Bush-Cheney torture regime, McCain and Paul are the only Republican candidates who should be considered for the job. I just wish McCain had taken on Giuliani as well. But God bless him. And God bless him for insisting that those who refuse to disown torture should actively support withdrawal from the Geneva Conventions. It's the only honest position to take. I saw the man defeated by Cheney and Addington in 2006 come back to fight again. God bless him."

- Andrew Sullivan

The funny thing about dry ice bombs is that they have a wonderful ability to injure only those who dearly deserve it.