Explosion Fest

Recently, I was looking at a couple of heavy metal festivals. The events feature bands, some new, some old school. They all have their own sound and fans who like it, from the intricate to the simplistic and brutal. If you think about it, an explosion could be considered at one end of the metal spectrum, with someone like Opeth at the other end... anyway I digress. My point is that explosions are fun. It's no fun when people die, but that's not necessary. So, let's create an explosion festival.

Find a desert, or big open field*, then put together your explosion line up. Bring in the appropriate experts to set everything off, add some lighting, possibly some ominous music... done.

"Hey dude, what you here for?"

"Well, everybody's gonna want to watch the 10 tonnes of Ammonium Perchlorate, it's headlining for a reason, but I'm old school, I'm gonna be front and center for the nitroglycerine on sunday morning.... just has a nice "crack!" you know?"

"I'm not a crack kind of guy, I'm stoked for the "whumph!!" you get from fuel-air"

"conflagration guy eh? when's fuel air on?" "sunday, just before hydrogen"

"I'll be at the beer tent for that, I hate pop... especially squeaky"

"Yeah, well, there's a garbage can of thermite on the other stage"

"pah, thermite, in the day? waste if you ask me"

"too right, bring your hat?"

"10 tonnes of ammonium nitrate buried at 50ft down? I'm not having a pound of soil down my shirt... not again, got two hats"

and so on.

*If I were a farmer, i'd be OK with someone using one of my fallow fields considering the amounts of free fixed nitrogen that's likely to be thrown about.