What would be the fastest and easiest way to clog a respirator? Blowing activated charcoal at someone?
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@feld corn starch should work. Maybe better and cheaper than activated carbon.
@SrRochardBunson oooh especially because moisture would really gum it up
So if we got leaf blowers that can blow large amounts of corn starch or flour into the masks of undesirables, they'd be forced to take off the masks to breathe
A then you can hit them with chili powder, cinnamon, etc....
So if we got leaf blowers that can blow large amounts of corn starch or flour into the masks of undesirables, they'd be forced to take off the masks to breathe
A then you can hit them with chili powder, cinnamon, etc....
@SrRochardBunson flour is a little dangerous though because you can cause the air to combust. Wonder if corn starch may have the same risk (or is this a feature??)
@feld @SrRochardBunson
Mythbusters covered this years ago, any kind of aerosolized carbohydrate can make a big fireball (they used coffee creamer to test the myth). Not recommended to try at home.
https://youtu.be/yRw4ZRqmxOc
Ahh yeah, if you're trying to, right? Not accidental? I remember how hard it was for then to catch aerosolized gas vapor.
@SrRochardBunson @feld
If you look up "grain elevator explosion", there're a few news reports per year of one blowing up randomly. So it's frequent enough that they put a lot of work into mitigating the risk factors.
https://knobelsdorffenterprises.com/grain-elevator-explosions-what-are-they-and-how-to-prevent-them/
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@MisterMadge @SrRochardBunson oh yeah that's true. I'm from farmland, USA and have heard of it happening locally. But they're still pretty enclosed airspaces