Step inside my exploding colon!

A colonoscopy is an unpleasant procedure that has to do with your butt. During this procedure, a flexible fiber-optic instrument inserted into the anus in order to get a look at the poop chute (a.k.a. the colon). It’s pretty dark in there, so this instrument does have a lamp on it.

And that can create problems!

First, this is your butt we’re talking about. So yeah, pretty gross.

Second, you have gas in your colon. Everyone does, that’s just how it is. That gas is usually methane—which is explosive! But what could set off the methane gas in your poop chute? Maybe the heat from the colonoscopy lamp?

So long story short, colonoscopies can cause explosions in your poop chute. It’s rare, but it's happened! And THAT’S why people who are getting a colonoscopy have to cleanse their poop chutes before their procedures. How do you cleanse? LAXATIVES. And MORE LAXATIVES. (Photo by Jason Meredith. More colon info here!)

The New Orleans Saints: The NFL's flamethrowers?

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Incoming!

Biological Weapons: The Tank That Shoots Poop!

Three years ago, a man named Aleksandr Semenov once patented a way to shoot poop from a tank.

I know. Pretty cool.

Here’s the way it works: Tank soldiers sometimes have to take poops. When they do, the poop above a big empty artillery shell. Then they add explosives to the mix and fire the shells at the enemy.

Or, as the patent says:

"The gun charged with special projectile is targeted on a safety zone or on any enemy target which is worth for catching it."

The result? The poop is out of the tank. Hurray! Also there are “additional military-psychological and military-political effects.” Translation: The enemy soldiers run screaming off the battlefield, covered in enemy grumpies. (Article via the Guardian.)

"Horseshoes should be removed to minimize dangerous flying debris.”

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has a brochure that details how to obliterate animal carcasses with explosives. You're welcome.

Why do students at the University of Chicago get "rivers of excrement"?

Michelle Rodriguez will explain. (It has to do with their exploding toilets!)

Crikey! My Melon's Exploded!

Do you find exploding watermelons gross? If not, just think of them as exploding heads. (That should do the trick.) There are a pile of melons here, and they explode individually in slo-mo.