So some of my friends and I are gonna attempt to make an assload of Pykrete. The plan is to attempt to destroy it as quickly and efficiently as possible using things that any regular joe can come across.

So far ideas are running short, my friends are convinced the stuff is tougher than the incredible hulk, yet I am cynical... I believe there will be quick and easy ways to demolish the stuff, not just chipping away at it. So far someone thought of making some thermite, but I know nothing about that, my approach was to ruin someones Microwave, but i'm unsure.

Any tips on destroying this stuff would be most appriciated, i'll post video and photos when the attempts are made.

So then... as a pre-experiment thread, i'd love to hear suggestions on crushing this **** into tiny pieces of nothing.

Well, karate masters can break concrete, and this stuff is a little less tough than

concrete!

Fill a tub with a crap load of bullets and firecrackers mixted together. Then pour alcohol into it until its nearly full, place the assload of Pykrete into the tub, and throw a lit match in and let 'er burn!

I don't knw about your crazy country, but in England that results in death by being hit with the side of a tub.

Although I'm still going to suggest making a Pykrete block with a pipe in the middle of it, so you can put explosives in the middle of the block.

Then put it inside a hut.

Vibrations?

Well, you can always use those cheap radio controlled airplanes and fly it into the tub from a safe distance.

How does it stand up to tension? Concrete needs rebar for tensile loads, if Pykrete is similar in this respect that might be an easy way to break it.

Try making it SUPER cold and then hit it with a hammer.

I was going to say that most ceramics aren't big fans of tensile loads. At least that's my recollection of first year labs anyway. I'm not sure Spe can get tensile testing machines though.

I reckon you could happily shatter it by dropping it a decent height. Just make sure no one could possibly get squished before you do.

Fashion a vest and then go spill some blokes pint.

That's kind of cool. I had no idea a material like that existed. And the history of it is fascinating.

DID YOU KNOW that Geoffrey Pyke, whom Pykrete was named after, wanted to make an aircraft carrier out of the stuff? It's essentially sawdust and ice.

Lawl My Tank is Fight!

[/quoting SA book]

Edit: God dammit spe linked to the wikipedia article and it says the same thing.

I was thinking the same thing

Toss it off an overpass onto a busy highway.

The idea is to break it not to die.

or kill somebody else.

Well Rob, that is why I recommended the remote (shoot I wrote radio) controlled airplane to put a lit match into it at a safe distance.

Radio is correct.

This contribution is irrelevant.

Because it was actually far more retarded than your other suggestions.

Also, shoot it with a cannon. Or even better, make pykrete cannonballs and shoot them out of a cannon into stuff.

Once you've broken Pykrete, what more is there to live for?

Hot girls my friend.

Mmmm, WLM and his babes.

Boring.

Bob Dole supports spe's evildoing.

Sunlight destroys pykrete. It's true. The stuff melts.

Light doesn't melt things, heat does.

Yeah. Why not use a butane torch, or fashion a flame-thrower?

Hell, any Ace hardware store (not sure what it'd be equivalent to across the pond) should carry charcoal lighter that's gel formed. You could easily just douse it with the gel and set it ablaze. It's like legal napalm.

B&q. :p