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New Pentagon Weapon - Happy Fun Ball
2008-11-12
The Pentagon has a new secret weapon to neutralize sites containing chemical or biological weapons: rocket balls. These are hollow spheres, made of rubberized rocket fuel; when ignited, they propel themselves around at random at high speed, bouncing off the walls and breaking through doors, turning the entire building into an inferno.

The makers call them "kinetic fireball incendiaries." The Pentagon doesn't want to talk about them, but published documents show that the fireballs have undergone tests on underground bunkers...

Each fireball is a hollow spherical shell with a hole in it; when the inside is ignited, the hole acts as a rocket nozzle. The kinetic fireballs eject an extremely high-temperature exhaust which will heat up the surrounding volume to over 1,000 F within seconds. Their random ricocheting around ensures that they will fill any space they occupy, and they are capable of diffusing throughout a multiroom structure.
Posted by:Anonymoose

#5  Warning: If happy fun ball changes color or begins to glow, GET AWAY!
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2008-11-12 22:43  

#4  Now all that is left is the "sing a-long".
Posted by: newc   2008-11-12 21:43  

#3  So when do the guys on the front lines get to use these for house clearing?

"Hey! Any Jihadi's inside come out now with your hands up or we're tossing in a happy fun ball!"
Posted by: Silentbrick   2008-11-12 21:41  

#2  Applied science is so much fun!
Posted by: trailing wife   2008-11-12 21:13  

#1  Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.
Posted by: SteveS   2008-11-12 21:03  

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