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TIFU by making a dry ice bomb

Today I fucked up by making a dry ice bomb to satiate my 8 year old desires. When I was a kid I witnessed a magician use dry ice for the first time ever. It blew my mind. There was smoke everywhere, everything was mysterious and cool. Ever since then I’ve had a fascination but never really acted on it.

Well I received a package today with a generous amount of dry ice. Suddenly I’m 17 years younger. I smash it to pieces. Throw a piece in my pool and it bubbles. Sick.

In nursing school prerequisites the scientific method is drilled into us.

Hypothesis - water bottle + dry ice = big pop? Experiment - I do what any normal 25 year old man would do and put a couple of pieces in a Poland spring bottle. Then I put like 20% pool water in to get that shit nice and smoky. Bottle starts expanding. It feels tense but there are still wrinkles. Wrinkles disappear so I toss it on the ground. No pop. Three tosses later and I get frustrated. I pick it up and hold it.

POP

Data: This must be what a Vietnam flashback is. My ears are ringing, I’m disoriented. I stumble into the side of my house. My hands are numb with a slight sense of pain. My dogs evacuated the den and ran into their thunderstorm hiding places. So much for no man left behind. That’s when I look down and see blood. I blew an extremely small chunk of flesh from my hand. I run inside, hand over my head and patch it up.

Conclusions: Now here I sit, ears still ringing and hand tingling, angry at myself. I knew it was coming but I just took it like an idiot. The worst part is that I can no longer make fun of my patients for the stupid stuff they do since I apparently do the same stupid stuff.

Report: TL;DR I put dry ice in a bottle with water and held it until it exploded.

Edit: currently trying to figure out how to use my house’s camera system to show the video of me getting exploded on

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