Exploding Watermelons

[SilverFang01]

From the Guardian:
"The flying pips, shattered shells and wet shrapnel still haunt farmer Liu Mingsuo after an effort to chemically boost his fruit crop went spectacularly wrong."







































Exploding watermelons put spotlight on Chinese farming practices

[Logan Darklighter]

Paging Gallagher. We have a job for your sledge-o-matic!

[robkelk]

"What's the watermelon for?"

"I'll tell you -" "- what watermelon?"

Edit: More seriously, add this to the growing list of examples why I don't eat Chinese produce if I can help it.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Honorbridge]

Was it a Kamikaze Watermelon?  And is it bad that this is the first thing I thought of when I saw this thread?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAw2Avi6pyY
I have learned to hate Yuku with this post - trying to use their Insert Flash always puts the video at the start of the post instead of the end, and I can't figure how to move it.  Insert Hyperlink does nothing when I click OK (no link, dialog stays open).  Also can't find smilies.

[robkelk]

I remember that we turned off smilies forum-wide a year or two ago - people who expressed an opinion didn't like them. Can't help you with the other concerns, though...
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Sweno]

reminds me of the farmers who compete to grow the largest pumpkins.

If the melons take on water too fast the square/cube law bites them in the ass and they pop.
-Terry
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TF2: Spy

[Kurisu]

Ok... I'll admit it... I would be morbidly curious in seeing a REAL clip of the fruit exploding.
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DEATH is Certain. The hour, Uncertain...

[Ebony]

My response to my friend's LJ where I first saw the story.
"The Banzai Institute wishes to apologize for any damage and/or trauma incurred by the people of Jiangsu process. Our testing of pressure-resistant fruit is an ongoing process, and the occasional laboratory mistake can have cascading repercussions. We would like to thank the government and people of the People's Republic of China for helping with this experiment. Our hydraulic press should be back online shortly, and we will return to using that for our watermelon-based experiments."
Ebony the Black Dragon
http://ebony14.livejournal.com

"Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."

[Black Aeronaut]

*Snrk!* As if the Chinese government in Fenspace would actually have anything to do with the banzai institute that didn't involve shackles and bayoneted rifles.

[Rod.H]