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Walking On Warheads is an elevated pathway that takes
the form of hundreds of pieces of possibly live bombs,
shells, and other large calibre munitions all facing
upwards so that pedestrians can walk across their impact
initiating fuse points.
To construct Walking On Warheads you need to group
together a large array of various types of munitions, with
their warheads initially all facing vertically downwards.
This takes the form of an extended oblong. The next
stage in the process is to box in the exterior so that clear
resin can be carefully poured around the entire array,
filling all of the spaces between the munitions.
Once this has dried, the entire array is rotated 180
degrees so that the points/fuses of the various munitions
are now facing vertically upwards, butted absolutely
level with the top surface of the resin. This means that
regardless of size, all of the top points will be equalised
and on the same plane.
Walking On Warheads is now ready for anyone who dares
to walk across its totally flat upper surface.
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This will give [8th] an erection. |
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More of an assembly, actually. |
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<orders extraordinary quantities of water-clear polyester resin/> |
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Free pogo sticks provided at the beginning! |
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If the munitions are set in reasonably high-modulus resin,
and if the tips are smaller than the size of you shoe's heel,
why would this involve any degree of danger? |
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"No High Heels Allowed"... |
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Call me boring, but "all facing vertically downwards" is there a way to point downwards that's not vertical? |
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+1 for me being a smartarse |
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//is there a way to point downwards that's not
vertical?// There is - as in "all pointing downwards
at a variety of non-90 degree angles" |
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Just in time for the North Korean summit between
the crazed leader of a third-world country and Kim
Jung Un. |
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For the extra-foolhardy, I'm picturing squash courts. |
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Tourists are invited to visit Gasa city where this already
exists. The only caveat is that women must wear modest old
fashioned clothes and cover their hair in the new Shiite style. |
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Hmm... does this resin expand, or release heat, or otherwise threaten
to tickle the enclosed munitions as it hardens? |
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So basically, an enormous claymore mine? |
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No, Claymores are fairly directional. This would give a more isotropic distribution of projecjtiles. |
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It gets warm, certainly, but not a problem if it's cast in thin layers. |
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In the mind it's a great artistic piece. I'm just just wondering how it would look in reality with varying depths of munitions and the packing thereof. If packed tightly, the angle to see down between the weapons would be minimal. Back lighting may be needed to resolve casing detail. |
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Or could this be a scale model of molecular explosives . Designing each individual molecular explosive resolve, in packing molecules. The ultimate in pyrotechnic engineering. |
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So, you'd step on, say, a giant model of one molecule of
trinitrotoluene? I don't think that would convey quite the same
frisson. |
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I was thinking about one trinitrotoluene frisson with respect to it's surrounding neighbours' frissons. Engineering orientation, spacing, other molecules maybe even photon density in the space. An ability to design complex patterned shockwaves, not just the shape. |
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Ignition of all the different munitions of the walkway would be quite random. Not exactly a designed fireworks send off for a traverser. |
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