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Jonathan Grant Thompson, the man behind the popular science-focused YouTube channel King of Random has been charged with two counts of second-degree felony possession of an explosive device.
Thompson, 37, runs the King of Random YouTube channel, boasting about 200 videos and 8.9 million subscribers. His videos are of science experiments and are in the vein of science-based shows on networks such as the Discovery Channel.
Thompson has been making videos and putting them on YouTube since 2010. His videos have garnered more than 1.6 billion combined views.
According to the article the first complaint "resulted from a citizen complaint via Facebook Messenger on June 15 about Thompson exploding a dry ice bomb", and for the second:
Thompson said a friend had left him a bag of powder, which he believed to be from a deconstructed firework.
After lighting a couple of small "control fires" Thompson and Timothy Burgess, 20, of Ontario, Canada, ignited a larger pile which exploded, the police report states. According to the report, firefighters heard the explosion from the nearby fire station.
Google Maps shows there is a South Jordan fire station 0.2 miles from Thompson's home.
The explosion left Burgess with small particles of burned material embedded in his arms, charges say.
Burgess was charged with one count of second-degree felony possession of an explosive device. Court records show prosecutors have asked a judge to issue a $15,000 warrant for his arrest
Originally spotted via AvE's channel.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 19 2018, @11:52AM
Just a small nitpick, its actually about the speed of sound in the material (explosive) as opposed to the air surrounding the material. Its all about the speed of the reaction moving through the material, is that wavefront moving through the explosive material faster than sound would move through that material. Deflagrants (like rocket propellants and gunpowder) burn at a rate slower than the speed of sound of their material so aren't said to "detonate" but rather "deflagrate". I'm not sure the air surrounding an explosive provides any "constraint" and it certainly doesn't change whether an explosive deflagrates or detonates. C4 will detonate in space, underwater, in your mum's undies, wherever. Its got all the ingredients it needs contained within to detonate and expand outward a large amount of gas at high speed. Even a deflagrant like gunpowder will burn in the vacuum of space, deflagrants just burn so slowly that their energy is dissipated over a long period of time. Containing a deflagration inside a container allows pressure to build and then releases it all instantaneously when the container ruptures, resulting in a bigger boom (same amount of energy just concentrated into a smaller pulse).