Propane tanks cooking off?

My best guess is that a propane tank was involved near the end.

It's looks like propane or natural gas tanks, and that's the safest place for them. If the tanks leak, or explode like in this video, the gas/explosion is outside the bus and goes up. If the tanks were in or under the bus and exploded, well you'd have shrapnel in your ass.

What they don't show is that the outdoor propane heater he's standing on is lit and he's chained to it.

He's not going hoo-hoo-ha-ha. He's going oooh-oooh, hot-hot!

That seems like a lot of gas...maybe someone was cleaning out an entire garage (estate sale?) and dumped ALL the cans of spray paint into a box and a liquid propane container marked "empty" (jokes on you) and all that got tossed in there?

In Russia, propane is butane.

Unfortunately, there have at least been numerous accusations that they hooked propane up to the water lines and other trickery to film Gasland, so it does not have a shining clean record of being fair and impartial.
That said, I think there is plenty of independent evidence that water contamination has occurred, and it at least appears that it increases the likelihood of earthquakes exponentially, even in areas that have no recorded activity. At best, we don't know the long term effects, and I think we should be cautious until we do since the possible consequences are so terrible and irreversable.

Sort of... (come on, some geek had to come out and say it). Legos are made from ABS plastic. The Acrylonitrile bit are usually derivatized from gases - acrylonitrile from propylene from cracked propane, and the Butadiene bit more often these days (but not always - depends on your feed stream) from ethylene made from cracked ethane . The 'S' bit, styrene, is produced from benzene (which is very, very bad juju) which indeed comes from Erl, as it is pronounced here in the deep south. Sorry, no offense intended, but what's breakfast without a bit of a science lesson?

I want a hang so badly. I would pay full price for it gladly. These are the most beautiful modern instruments I've ever heard.
That said, I've explored a number of the "propane hang" options, and they sound.... interesting. But honestly, and I'm absolutely no audio-snob or musical connoisseur, but they're not nearly an inkling as magical as the real deal.
Someone buy me a hang! Please!

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Fuse for a gas explosion?? BYOP(propane).

Mercs these days are overengineered and full of useless electronics. But they don't blow up, they don't turn into a ball of fire on their own.

It wasn't an LPG Merc, was it? So what's the freaky one-in-a-million coincidence that happened here? Did he happen to transport a couple of tanks of propane in the back?

Jeez, the shockwave...They looked pretty close-This is the best shot of the thing out there-I watched a propane rail car explode inna fire when I was 10 from about 1000 yards away-It was a clean little pop compared to this nightmare-

Back in shop class, when I was about, oh, 12, we were doing some metalworks that involved heating things up with a propane torch. Now some kids noticed a thin metal rod will heat up to a glow quite quickly and looks kinda neat if you wave it around fast. The teacher being at his desk at the time (he was a bit of a dick, to be honest), we spent a good while waving glowing hot metal bits around the propane tank.

The valve on the tank must have been faulty, because suddenly the top of the tank was on flames. You wouldn't believe how fast a room full of 12-year-olds evacuates itself when an explosion seems imminent. Some kids went out the door, others went out the window (we were in a basement with a window right at ground level) and some simply hid behind a sturdy desk far away from the flaming tank.

Our teacher wasn't quite disinterested enough not to notice the ruckus and went in to extinguish the fire. First he tried to stamp the flames out with his shoe, managing mainly to re-arrange the patterning of his soles, and then got a fire-extinguishing glove which did the job.

As I said, this teacher was something of an asshole, seeming to get his kicks from berating and belittling the kids he was teaching, but this time what followed was a very sober and concise lesson on fire safety. Everyone was left with the feeling we'd all gotten very lucky, and there was this worldess concensus that it'd really be best for all concerned if no-one said a word about what had happened, ever.