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I read yesterday of soldiers who, in their uncanny ability to learn new ways to not die, have started using silly string as a way to detect tripwires when entering a building. By spraying the stuff across a room, they see it dangle off of tripwires (which are otherwise nearly impossible to detect).
Problems:
A)
The military does not provide Silly String, or any other competitive compressed foam string product, as a standard equipment. So soldiers must find it on their own.
B) Silly String is an aerosol product, that therefore cannot be shipped by well-meaning civilians to their soldiers.
Solution:
A hand-pump device (link two) that creates a pressurized environment from which to expel string foam product. It's aerosol free and therefore mailable to wherever. It's also not as dangerous to leave in the heat or fall on, because it is less likely to cause shrapnel wounds should it break.
Silly String Saves Lives
http://www.theglobe...ernational/America/
[shapu, Dec 08 2006]
Hand-pump spray bottles
http://www.sks-bott...om/340c/fin110.html
[shapu, Dec 08 2006]
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Yeah, wouldn't it be nice. Most of the silly string that I've seen is puffed-up by the volatile propelling gas, and somehow hardened by the rapid expansion of said gas. I don't see that an air-powered silly string is going to work without some major changes that aren't described in this idea. But I'm not fishboning, as the goal is worthy. |
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May I suggest that a roll of dental floss would be easy to throw across a room, and the floss would be light enough to avoid setting off a tripwire (probably). It would also allow for hooking the floss to a longer string, and tugging the tripwire from a safe distance. |
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What happens if you cut the tripwire instead of tugging on it? |
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Pulling = infinitely more satisfying. |
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Depends on how the trip-wire is set up. Some are rigged that if the wire is cut, the sudden lack of tension triggers the booby-trap just as if it was tugged. |
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You want to be careful when deliberately (sp?) tripping IED's (improvised explosive devices). Because of the unpredictable nature of IED's, of booby-traps in general, you have no way of knowing what a safe distance is. |
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This is a supply chain problem. The
product is already invented. Sort the
supply chain out. |
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If the message gets out, this is something that need not be sent to them through mail, if the troops remember to bring the stuff with them when they go there. You can have almost anything in checked luggage on commercial flights, and on military flights, on military aircraft, they don't even search the troops. |
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