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[–] 63 points 1 week ago (1 child)

Those things are pretty strong, they don't just break when falling over. Chances are the cyclist would still lose. Better replace it with a landmine, or something else that really explodes when getting hit.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    A claymore would do the trick!

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  • [–] 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Ackshully, the explosive in claymore mines is C4, so they're pretty impact resistant. They let us Marines play with them, so they've gotta handle mistreatment.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

    Your description makes it sound like they're edible as well.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago

    Just got to rig up a lever to the trigger and you might even stop the car before impact. I imagine that'd give the bike a bit of a shove too, so maybe you need one on the other side too, to balance the forces.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Ok but I don't think propane tanks are as fragile & explosive as they suppose.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Pressure relief valve needs to be sealed so it can really go boom.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago

    Realistically nothing happens. The pressure relief valve does not matter, as the track itself has to fail from the impact. Nobody is going to uniformly squeeze it to build pressure to make it rupture, where the valve would open. A fire cooking it for minutes means you are either already burned crispy or simply not near anymore. But in that case at least we get a nice explosion.

    But really nothing happens, there is nothing to crush it. A bike will just give way and the tank flies off. You need either a ton of inertia behind it or 2 vehicles pancaking you.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 week ago

    I always loved in Snowcrash the key antagonist drove around on a motorbike with a side car with a ex-soviet nuke wired to a heart beat monitor. Security companies spent their time not trying to stop him but trying to stop his numerous enemies from trying to kill him

    Sure its going to be a bit of a fizzle when the tritium decays but still gonna make one hell of a hole in the road if someone dares to hit him.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    M.A.D.D. isn't just for insane world leaders anymore!

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    What's the second D stands for? Isnt it usually just M.A.D doctrine?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    "Mutually assured destruction doctrine".

    Or maybe I conflated it with mothers against drunk driving.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 week ago

    The alahu akhbicycle.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 week ago

    Like that dude in Snow Crash who has a niclear bomb for a motocycle sidecar.

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    [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    I see your car. Do you sea-mine?

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