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It has been a very long time since I have even wanted to think about chemistry, but I seem to remember something about Potassium reacting violently with water.
Bananas have Potassium, with enough falling in powdered form surley an armada would be seriously threatened.
EU banana reglations, and the ensuing brouhaha
http://www.telegrap...02/06/29/do2902.xml
[friendlyfire, Oct 05 2004]
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sp: Don't call me surley. |
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Harry Chapin would have a field day with you. |
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Maybe you could add eggs and milk and cornflour (cornstarch) and the ships' propellors could beat a large chunk of ocean into banana custard? |
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Perhaps you could bomb a ship, or an army, with powdered banana, then add water and simply slip away unnoticed? |
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Maybe all of the reconstituted banana could attract swarms of angry chimpanzees, to fight your battles for you? |
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Maybe the smell of 3-methylbutyl acetate will overpower whole armies? |
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Maybe this idea is one of the goofiest things I've read here in a long while? |
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School must be out. Seems early. |
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We need to come up with some sort of stupid filter that kicks in during the 'add idea' process. |
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Maybe a battleship or frigate would slip on the bananas, and capsize. |
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2K(s) + 2H2O 2KOH(aq) + H2(g)
Daylight come and me wan' go home
2K(s) + 2H2O 2KOH(aq) + H2(g)
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Woik all night on a taste of bun
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Stack banana bombs till morning done
Daylight come and me wan' go home
2K(s) + 2H2O 2KOH(aq) + H2(g)
Daylight come and me wan' go home
2K(s) + 2H2O 2KOH(aq) + H2(g)
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Come, Mister Zimmy man, tally bomb banana
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Come, Mister Zimmy man, tally bomb banana
Daylight come and me wan' go home
2K(s) + 2H2O 2KOH(aq) + H2(g)
Daylight come and me wan' go home
2K(s) + 2H2O 2KOH(aq) + H2(g)
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Lose six foot, seven foot, eight foot *boom*
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Lose six foot, seven foot, eight foot *boom*
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Beautiful bunch of bomb banana
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Hide from blissmiss, black tarantula
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Lose six foot, seven foot, eight foot *boom*
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Six foot, seven foot, eight foot *boom*
Daylight come and me wan' go home
2K(s), me say 2K(s) + 2H2O 2KOH(aq) + H2(g)
Daylight come and me wan' go home
2K(s), me say 2K(s), me say 2K(s), me say 2K(s) |
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Hehehe....//Hide from blissmiss, black tarantula//. Thanks for a bleary Saturday morning laugh! |
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Read the whole thing, well done [thumb]!
Daylight here soon, and I'm off to bed,
Remember kiddies, don' eat banana,
Or you wind up dead.
Daylight here soon, and I'm off to bed,
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[Zimmy], potassium metal is not quite the same as the potassium in organic molecules in banana. |
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I like the idea of exploding bananas, but you're waaaayyy off base with this lame idea. |
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I assumed potassium metal was partially extractable from bananas. If not for the song, I should probably take the banana and go home. |
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It's the same element, but you should be able to easily debunk this idea for yourself. |
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1. Buy a banana
2. Fill a large glass with water
3. Put the banana into the water
4. Wait for it to explode.
5. Wait for it to explode.
6. Wait for it to explode.
7. Wait for it to explode.
8. Wait for it to explode.
9. Wait for it to explode.
10.Wait for it to explode. |
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BAKED? wasn't this in worms? (the game!!!) |
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What if you dipped the bananas in some kind of catalysing substance before deployment - could you turn the fruit into a deadly armament then? After all, wars have been fought over bananas, so why not with them? |
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If the Banana Republican Guard gets ahold of these, we're fucked. |
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//After all, wars have been fought over bananas...// |
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[friendlyfire], Either this chapter got left out of my history books, or you've been reading the United Fruit Company in-house publications with insufficient skepticism. Or were you referring to Willie Walker's ill-fated Nicaraguan adventures? |
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Yep. "Hand me the K-Y. You! Bend over!" |
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Not directly over them - "These bananas are mine!" "No they're not." "Fire!" - but yes, I was thinking of the coups, sneaky nation-building and underhanded whatnot linked to the UFCO. |
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Also, the not-so-long-ago almost-trade war between US and EU, when there was a lot of chest-beating over EU regulations about banana curvature (which favoured the European banana over the Latin) - see link. |
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Seems to be some confusion between organic and *inorganic* sources for elements! Besides, isn't it sodium in it's metalic form that is explosive in water? |
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Please don't go asking for a think tank job.
Oh, I heard if you smoke the banana peels you can get high is that what happened here. Word of advise, eat the innn ssside throw away the peel and try nahot to smoke it before throwing it awaay.
The amyl acetate that gives banans their smell is probably more explosive than the potasium in dried banana. Truthfully though any organic (carbon containing) powder dispersed in enough air will usually become inflamable. If the banana powder were like other flours mixed in air it would be explosive. It could be like a gasoline bomb, sort of Low Tech / high Tech. The boom would not be from potassium, that much potassium would give every body a heart attack before the explosion maybe by disrupting their electrolytes (sodium to potassium ratio disrupted) causing an arrythmia; along with the manna from heaven might be to much for them to take.
Personally I would get out a frying pan and make pan cakes out it , Woow Hoo is what Hommer Simpson would say. |
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oh no. It's as if someone at that party had a camera. |
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