h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Okay, maybe I should specify: how do I make the kind that you can just throw on the ground to produce a great cloud of smoke that I can use to cover my escape?

Well, maybe not 'cover' my escape so much as put emphasis on the fact that I left in a fashion more dramatic and unusual than I normally do.

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Dammit, I want to know what that last post said!

Stupid moderation

Well, that's assuming that the previous post did, in fact, detail how to make ninja smoke bombs. It could've been something else entirely. Of course, we may never know....

*Joins the group of people scratching their heads and wondering what post 2 said*

Is making smoke bombs wholly illegal? Surely not with a pyrotechnics license?

B

The best way to make realy big smoke bombs is, you get a realy big.....NAAA I better not


manda

Okay, because h2g2 is to be used as an information source, I'll attempt to get an answer to my question by giving others info on how to make a ninja smoke bomb that is not the dramatic "gives-off-a-huge-cloud-of-smoke-when-thrown-on-the-ground" type. This is, I believe, called a "newspaper bomb." I don't know if it's really a ninja thing, especially when you consider that 1) I know it, and 2) ninja had developed their own smoke bombs a long time before newspapers were commonly used, but I'll post it anyway. BTW, this is just something that I've heard about and not tried for myself, so I'm not recommending that anyone do it and then blame me if it, for instance, blows up in your face. I don't think it will, but I'm just saying that, for safety's sake, please look into amonium nitrate and what makes it ignite.

Step 1-Obtain Amonium Nitrate. This is a pretty common substance, so it shouldn't be that hard to find at, for instance, a chemical dealer.

Step 2-Fill a bowl with enough water to completely cover a single non-folding sheet of newspaper. Mix in the Amonium Nitrate while stirring until the water is completely saturated with it and won't dissolve any more.

Step 3-Take the single non-folding sheet of newspaper and fold it into a square. It doesn't really matter how, just as long as it winds up small enough to fit in the bowl. Submerge it completely in the AN/Water solution, and make sure it is thoroughly soaked. BE SURE TO USE TONGS SO THAT YOU DON'T GET THE SOLUTION ON YOUR SKIN. I don't know what it'll do to skin, I'm not enough of a chemist to tell you that, but it's always better to not risk it.

Step 4-After it has been soaked, use the tongs or wooden spoon and find a warm, dry place for it to hang. A clothesline that isn't currently being used for clothes, for instance. Just make sure it isn't too humid out. It should take a few hours to dry, so you can use this time to soak up even more sheets of newspaper until the solution is all gone. In the end you should have a dry sheet of newspaper covered with some weird white substance.

Step 5-You now have the smoke bomb. It can be easily concealed in, for instance, a newspaper. The best method for preparing it, according to the people who've told me this, is to wrap up the sheet (or sheets) into a tight tube and tie it securely with flammable string. Just light one end, drop it (it'll catch pretty quickly, so I'm told), and watch the surprising amount of smoke that it produces!

Again, I have no idea if this even works, so please, be careful.

Anyway, now that I've told you how to make the boring, stealthy version, would a lurker out there who actually knows how to make the more interesting ninja smoke bomb tell us?

Thanks.

I am poster #2

I found a pirated version of Steal This Book online, and I cut and pasted, and mentioned it was taken from Steal this Book. Mods did not like the copyright stuff. So search around the internet and maybe some bad man has been bad and typed up Steal This Book (which was wrong) and there should be a recipe for a smoke bomb in there. Which I've never tried BTW

you put a cigarette in his mouth, light it and then throw a hand grenade at him

Or you could put the grenade in your mouth, and try to smoke a grenade...

Sorry to butt in on your conversation, but if
Researcher "202067"
would go back to there own page and then click on the "EDIT PAGE" button and then write a little something about your self, as this will activate your page and then a ACE can come and welcome you there properly
Sorry for interrupting your conversation

Manda