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Great read, excellent projects!
Bill Gurstelle is a great maker who takes on ambitious projects and then shares them. This book follows in his great tradition of awesome books that combine great projects with storytelling. Besides being a book that gives you a roadmap for making life more interesting, it's got great projects and Bill's storytelling ability makes it a great read. Even if you want to live the dangerous life from an armchair perspective, you'll love this book! I give this book 5 stars for sheer entertainment value and for inspiring me to live life closer to the edge!
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Want to add more excitement to your life?
This daring combination of science, history, and DIY projects will show you how. Written for smart risk takers, it explores why danger is good for you and details the art of living dangerously.
Risk takers are more successful, more interesting individuals who lead more fulfilling lives. Unlike watching an action movie or playing a video game, real-life experience changes a person, and Gurstelle will help you discover the true thrill of making black powder along with dozens of other edgy activities.
All of the projects—from throwing knives, drinking absinthe, and eating fugu to cracking a bull whip, learning bartitsu, and building a flamethrower—have short learning curves, are hands-on and affordable, and demonstrate true but reasonable risk.
With a strong emphasis on safety, each potentially life-altering project includes step-by-step directions, photographs, and illustrations along with troubleshooting tips from experts in the field.
Dangerous book for Men
This book is kind of a but for men. It covers a variety of subjects like eating dangerously, making a flame thrower and making gunpowder or your own Absinthe. There is some interesting stuff in it and an important thing to realize about this book is in the title "Projects and Ruminations" It isn't just projects it also talks about various pursuits that are a bit dangerous like eating dangerously or the hottest pepper in the world.Plenty of safety warnings and a real focus of the book is on the science/art of doing things in a way that makes dangerous less risky.This book is definitely not for boys, grownups only.What I like most about the book is the variety of resources it gives you on where to get supplies for your projects. And these suppliers and sources vary widely. The author calls...
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One of the few fiction Lacrosse books
Flamethrowers Guardians of the game is one of the few fiction Lacrosse books and is one of the best fiction sports books. The whole time I was wondering what would happen next, I couldn't put it down! This is a great book for everyone, Lacrosse fans or not. Flamethrowers Guardians of the game is a great book!Eagle Ridge Jr High School
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The first team sport was given to the First Nations by the Creator. The first players called it “The Creator’s Game”. Flamethrowers, guardians of the game, were given special sticks by the Creator to teach and watch over the sport. But there was a betrayal, a Nation lost, and the Creator removed the Flamethrowers from the earth. But they left something behind… Kenny lives in a mining town located on the iron Range in Minnesota. His entire family plays hockey. Only one problem for Kenny, he hates hockey. Then fate finds Kenny in a cave where he discovers a stone box containing a special stick. Kenny seeks out a storyteller to find out the origin of the stick. Join Kenny as he searches for the story and discovers a dark side that he must face. Top to learn more
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fresh machines from the underground
I've been waiting for this book to come out, and it's cool to finally see it. Gurstelle wrote my favorite -- the authoritative book of cool and potentially perilous home projects, Backyard Ballistics."Adventures . . . ." describes projects and devices that are an order of magnitude more sophisticated (and probably more dangerous). No one is better at teasing out the details of these amazing and exotic home-built contraptions. There are the requisite tesla coils and air canons, but also stuff I'd never heard of before -- like coin shrinking machines, sky cars, and pulse jets (not to be confused with plain ol' turbine jets).Damn, the book made me realize that the world is just so full of specialists in so many odd areas. Gurstelle has covered the terrain longer than anybody. It's full of imagination, and made me start thinking bigger about my own home projects and new areas I could explore.
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The technology underground is a thriving, humming, and often literally scintillating subculture of amateur inventors and scientific envelope-pushers who dream up, design, and build machines that whoosh, rumble, fly—and occasionally hurl pumpkins across enormous distances. In the process they astonish us with what is possible when human imagination and ingenuity meet nature’s forces and materials. William Gurstelle spent two years exploring the most fascinating outposts of this world of wonders: meeting and talking to the men and women who care far more for the laws of physics than they do for mundane matters like government regulations and their own personal safety.
Adventures from the Technology Underground is Gurstelle’s lively and weirdly compelling report of his travels. In these pages we meet Frank Kosdon and others who draw the scrutiny of the FAA, ATF, and other federal agencies in their pursuit of high-power amateur rocketry, which they demonstrate to impressive—and sometimes explosive—effect at the annual LDRS gathering held in various remote and unpopulated areas (a necessary consideration since that acronym stands for Large Dangerous Rocket Ships). Here also are the underground technologists who turn up at the Burning Man festival in the Nevada high desert, including Lucy Hosking, “the engineer from Hell” and the creator of Satan’s Calliope, aka the World’s Loudest Thing, a pipe organ made from jet engines. Also at Burning Man is Austin “Dr. MegaVolt” Richard, who braves the arcing, sputtering, six-digit voltages of a giant Tesla coil in his protective metal suit. Add in a trip to see medieval-style catapults, air cannons, and supersized slingshots in action at the World Championship Punkin Chunkin competition in Sussex County, Delaware, and forays to the postapocalyptic enclaves of the flamethrower builders and the future-noir pits of the fighting robots, and you have proof positive that the age of invention is still going strong.
In the world of science and engineering, despite its buttoned-down image, there’s plenty of fun, humor, and sheer wonder to be found at the fringes. Adventures from the Technology Underground takes you there.
• Launch homemade high-power rockets.
• Catapult pumpkins the better part of a mile.
• Watch robot gladiators saw, flip, and pound one another into high-tech junk heaps.
• Dazzle the eye with electrical discharges measured in the hundreds of thousands of volts.
• Play with flamethrowers, potato guns, and other decidedly unsafe toys . . .
If this is your idea of fun, you’ll have a major good time on this wild ride through today’s Technology Underground.
From the Burning Man festival in Nevada’s high desert to the latest gathering of Large Dangerous Rocket Ship builders to Delaware’s annual Punkin Chunkin competition (a celebration of “science, radical self-expression, and beer”), you’ll meet the inspired, government-unregulated, and corporately unfettered men and women who operate at the furthest fringes of science, engineering, and wild-eyed arc welding, building the catapults, ultra-high-voltage electrical devices, incendiary artworks, fighting robots, and other machines that demonstrate what’s possible when physics meets human ingenuity.
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Things that go FOOOSH, BANG and POP in the Dark.
As a many time attendee of the burning man festival (www.burningman.com) I have seen many of the devices described in this book in person. Awe inspiring.This book goes even further than just describing the technology, the author takes you on a journey to first explain the people behind the technology (Doctor MegaVolt, who has entertained people for many years at burning man, in a wire protective suit, hooked up to an enormous tesla coil, is one of my favourite vignettes in this book). Then he explains the technology itself. How it works, what it does, how the makers built it.This is an excellent introduction of some of the coolest, weirdest technology employed to the most interesting ends. The World Championship Pumpkin Chuck event had me laughing out loud. The effort the contestants expend to launch a pumpkins is incredible. Gurstelle uses this event to explore the technology behind Centrifugal Catapults, Air Cannons (and I mean CANNONS, these bad boys...
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THE ILLUSTRATED MANUAL OF U.S. PORTABLE FLAMETHROWERS
THE ILLUSTRATED MANUAL OF U.S. PORTABLE FLAMETHROWERSCHARLES S. HOBSONSCHIFFER PUBLISHING, 2010HARDCOVER, $49.99, 114 PAGES, PHOTOGRAPHS, CD-ROM, ENDNOTES, APPENDIX, ILLUSTRATIONS, DIAGRAMS, DRAWINGS, COMPARISONSFire in all its guises has been an established weapon of war since ancient times, but when the flamethrower appeared in its modern form on the battlefields of World War I, it seemed that a new aspect of its horrors had arrived. Despite the outcries of disgust that arose on all sides, the flamethrower quickly became an established military weapon and by World War II most armies either had the flamethrower in their armories or were making active plans to place them there. These early World War II flamethrowers were very different beasts from those that came later in the war, for they were usually not much different from World War I models and in some cases, such as the improvised designs rushed out in the United Kingdom during 1940, virtually...
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The Ultimate Guide to Flamethrowers
To my knowledege, this is the ONLY book ever written that exclusively covers the topic of flamethrowers.This book is extremely in-depth, covering the history, use of, development and problems with the use of the different flame-thrower models up until being eliminated from the U.S. arsenal in 1985.The book is loaded with pictures and diagrams of various U.S. models, as well as models from other countries, such as Germany, Japan and England.My one complaint is the book contains many spelling and grammatical errors, showing it was not well "proof read" before going to print.With that said, if you love flamethrowers, you will love this book!
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and at the last 20 or so stages you’ll be earning about 24k per stage. Update again since i finally beat the game after 13 hrs… missle launcher is actually pretty good maxed out, but not specifically against bosses.
There are also depots scattered around every level that allow you to use points earned in that match (separate from game points used for upgrades) to buy items like health recharges, a flamethrower or the Hardsuit, a mech-like suit equipped with a... It’s a nice addition that gives you the freedom to try new items for a lower cost before completely buying them, so you can make sure you like that toxic grenade variant before you spend all of your points to buy it permanently. Items in the game can be purchased using either points accumulated while playing, or Zen, in-game currency purchased with real money. When purchasing items with game points or Zen, in many instances you can buy for varying lengths of time, like one day, one week or permanent. While winning matches and good performance will earn you more points to spend, even poor execution earns points, meaning that less skilled players can still upgrade for free, it will just take them longer. For instance, if a certain gun requires you to be level 22 to purchase, spending some Zen will allow you to unlock it even if you’re only a level 10. If you’re making a purchase at the depot, you’ll want to survey the area with the HRV first, as opposing players can swoop in after your purchase to kill you and steal your items. If customization isn’t your thing, you can spend Zen to buy a Hero, one of several preset characters built for different play styles. The HRV has a maximum use time and must recharge, so you have to be careful about where and when you use it. Using your HRV will be crucial to success.
If you’re buying your first firearm to learn and hone pistol target shooting skills, sure, buy a. 22. About Bill Quick I am a small-l libertarian with conservative leanings on most issues, except on many traditionally conservative social issues, where my stance would be regarded as hopelessly liberal by most social conservatives. Most Americans, buying their first gun, are doing so for personal or family/home self defense. It is an excellent entree to all sorts of pistols – large enough that if you can handle it, you won’t have many problems moving towards bigger calibers, small enough that if you want to buy a. 22 for practice, you’ll be fine with that as well. But most Americans, buying their first gun, don’t have that built in support system. Most are never going to be able to hit a moving target at ten yards with even a flamethrower. But that demographic is probably less that a couple percent of those who are actually buying their first firearms in America today. I’m suggesting you’ll learn faster, and often without imparting many bad habits you have to overcome later, if you learn your fundamentals with a. 22 handgun. Most are not going to go to the range once or twice a month, or even once or twice a year. The ideal self defense firearm for most people, then, is the. (“By the way, loud noises scare me” is not something you want to hear from a friend on the way to the range… but shooting my ol’ Buckmark, she actually did pretty well.
Caballo Diablo, an ominous looking Dodge DS 1500 crew cab pickup, has a number of features designed to strike fear into the hearts and minds of everyone who isn't riding in it. Once you get past the devilish low gloss black paint job and dark red... "People have been saying you can't turn a Jeep into a 1-ton truck, and that's what I did," Muldoon said, adding that along with including Kevlar armor and a shell casing drain in the bed, he reinforced parts of the Jeep's frame so that it can... Meet the VWerks Recon, which began life as a 4-door Rubicon, then, with the JK8 Wrangler-to-pickup conversion VWerks makes for Mopar, becomes an open topped military pickup. It's really more of a Baja truck than a rock crawler, but after Muldoon told me to drive it like I stole it in Moab last week, Caballo's 14 inches of suspension travel proved just as handy for crawling over boulders as it was for ripping through... "We designed Caballo Diablo for places where you might need to get someone out of harm's way in a hurry," said Pat Muldoon, VWerks' vice president of product development, pointing out that while they're in bad guys' company, the truck's passengers... But just in case the Hemi's brute strength isn't enough, it comes with a twin stick Atlas transfer case for slow brute strength. -based company showcased a small lineup of custom trucks at last week's Easter Jeep Safari in Moab, Utah, giving me a firsthand glimpse of their versions of fight and flight. 7-liter Hemi V8, 6-speed automatic transmission, and independent front suspension, the truck's pugnacious exterior belies its true purpose: Getting the hell outta Dodge (no pun intended). Muldoon said he had to study up to figure out the military machine gun mounts, which aren't always as simple as they look. It's also fitted with two side-mounted, gasoline-burning flamethrowers.
Previously, he's built things such as a laser-sighted wrist-mounted crossbow, and a hand-mounted flamethrower. His latest creation, the Blade Driver, is a full-size laser-sighted crossbow oh yeah, and instead of shooting arrows, it shoots spinning
By Tris McCall/The Star-Ledger Dan Bracaglia/The Star-LedgerMax Bemis turns his self-described 'flamethrower mouth' on the Starland Ballroom, November 2010. Say Anything's second album, “… Is a Real Boy,” and its first to enjoy a widespread release,
At first, the Cincy front office was willing to give the Cuban flamethrower a shot at a rotation spot. Though hampered by his often unwieldy command for much of 2011, Dusty Baker and GM Walt Jockety felt confident this would be a transformative year
