Firecrackers & Thinking Putty

Thinking Putty fan Mike Niezoda writes me:

What I plan to do is put a fire cracker in my black thinking putty and see if the silly putty contains the blast or if it will shatter because of the force. I hope to have this done soon

Hopefully when I'm done I can still enjoy my black thinking putty.

~Mike Niezgoda a loyal putty enjoyer.

Apparently this email got Mike really excited about his idea because he emailed me again less than an hour later:

I have several picture for you. I'm very sorry I couldn't produce a video, but I don't have a video camera. I'll provide you with an account of what happened.

When the fire cracker went off, the whole thing just shattered. Much of my putty was blown to such small pieces I couldn't even pick them up. The putty was blown at high speeds all over my back yard, the largest piece striking me in the side which hurt a bit but I'm fine. It didn't take me long to gather it all up because fortunately I saw where it all went. Now my silly putty has a slight smell of gun powder.  Minus the little bit of pain and the loss of almost half my black silly putty all over the back yard, it was a good test; and it was all in the name of science.

The pictures I enclosed are as follows

-One of my silly putty before the experiment
-One of the explosive I used
-Two of the explosive wrapped in the thinking putty
-Two of the silly putty and whats left of the explosive, seconds after the explosion and the collection of every thing.
- One of how much silly putty is left so you can see how much was actually blown away.
- And of course, one of me holding my favorite desk toy. (P.S sorry I'm not the prettiest person you'll ever see)

Sorry the pictures are rather big.

Sincerely a loyal putty enjoyer,
Mike Niezgoda

Cool stuff, no doubt.  Mike, some replacement Black Thinking Putty and a free t-shirt are on their way to you.  Keep up the good work.  Oh, and maybe wear some eye protection next time ;-)

Comments

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That's cool, i should try something like that for fourth of july,ha.