posted May 13, 2000 02:30 AM            

It looks like a rock, but as you can see below it's hollow.

I make these by adding styrofoam to acetone till it forms a big blob at the bottom. Add powdered charcoal or graphite till it's black.

Take a blob and roll it around in your hands till it's no longer sticky and drop the ball into a pot of hot water. The hotter the water, the more hollow the rock. Hot tap water makes a rock with a hard, smooth surface. Boiling water makes a soft, rough rock. And, for the same size blob, the hotter the water, the bigger the rock.

I see several different uses for these. Stick dope in it, and if cops come at you, throw it. Good luck trying to find a rock in a park or field. Stick AP and glass granules in it and you have a landmine.

You could make a really big rock and hide a bomb in it in someones yard or driveway.

I'm sure you guys can think up of some other uses.

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"The knowledge that they fear is a weapon to be used against them."

posted May 14, 2000 01:31 AM            

I'll also try renting them out, make some money.

Person could put one in a fake rock beside a driveway or trail as surveillance to see when someone is coming or going and who it is. Like police driving up to get you.

Or a rock with a camera can be planted in a flower pot, with the transmitter and power pack buried in the dirt, to watch a room.

I've tried the process on smokless powder putty and that foams up too. Lights very easily. I'm thinking make a ball of AP putty, cover in BBs, then cover it all in straight smokeless putty.

Then the balls, after they've dried, can be shot out of a pipe mortar. After the short delay of the outer smokeless putty burning, the AP putty would be ignited and explode, spraying BBs everywhere.

This is just theory, since I haven't done it myself.

When I first made a styrorock, I asked my friend "Hey, check out this rock I just found!" and threw it straight at him. He flinched. Got to love it.

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"The knowledge that they fear is a weapon to be used against them."

posted May 16, 2000 06:23 AM            

When they burn they do make some black smoke, but not enough to block sight in any way.

They burn very slowly in fact, melting into a black, sticky mess.

I'd imagine someone could mix them up with nitrate and press them into pellets to dry in the sun. That might work as an incendiary pellet.

What I originally envisioned these being used for where for incendiary mines. They would be filled with GOOP (look it up in IWbook) with an igniter built in.

When the victim stepped on it, it would ignite with a white hot flame that couldn't be put out, and the GOOP is supersticky so they can't wipe it off before it fries everything up to at least their knees to a blackened crisp.

These mines are safer than explosive types since you can simply roll a weighted drum over an area without fear of getting blown up. Any mines that go off simply burn. Or set the field on fire.

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"The knowledge that they fear is a weapon to be used against them."

posted May 17, 2000 05:13 PM            

You arn't going to get an area effect if it's out side because it will disperse to fast but inside it might work.

If you have ever burned nylon then you would know that it's very noxious. Once I was trying to melt some nylon and I smoke myself out of the basment, and the smell got through the ducts and stunk up the batrooms to.

The fact is that it dosn't gurn fast enough to put out enough smoke, maybe if you added an oxidiser it would work.

Just make the stuff it's not like it's hard or anything and then see for your self.

posted June 01, 2000 03:24 PM            

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Guns dont kill people... i kill people