Ka Boom2 - for Greg Don't Do This At Home Kids! Don't You Adults Try It Either!

I think, given this video, that KSTP made a reasonably accurate use of the words highly explosive in referencing black powder in a pipe bomb.  Because a picture is worth a thousand words, and these moving pictures are worth even more, I will let them refute Greg Camp's assessment, and support Democommie's explanation.

This is just a sampling of the videos available on youtube of black powder bomb explosions.  It appears to be a popular activity, and there can be absolutely no question whatsoever, after viewing these videos, that under the right conditions - and there appear to be many different versions of that - black powder is explosive; it does go Ka-Boom very convincingly.  (Be sure to scroll down to the end.)

Consider this a public service to educate the educator.

You just have to love youtube and the 'interwebs'.  Hope you all enjoyed the Mikeb blog video of stupid guys getting their rocks off doing stupid things - HIGHLY EXPLOSIVE things -  with black powder. 

I'll be looking forward to the explanations of why these videos do not show black powder EXPLOSIONS, by the usual definitions of the term.

For those of you not familiar with the usual definitions of the word explosion, in addition to the video definitions of the term, I am pleased to provide the definition from dictionary.com for clarification:

ex·plo·sion

 [ik-sploh-zhuhn]  

noun

1.

an act or instance of exploding;  a violent expansion or bursting with noise, as of gunpowder or a boiler ( opposed to implosion).

2.

the noise itself: The loud explosion woke them.

3.

a violent outburst, as of laughter or anger.

4.

a sudden, rapid, or great increase: a population explosion.

5.

the burning of the mixture of fuel and air in an internal-combustion engine.

and the word explode, also from dictionary.com:

ex·plode

 [ik-splohd]  verb, -plod·ed, -plod·ing.

verb (used without object)

1.

to expand with force and noise because of rapid chemical change or decomposition, as gunpowder or nitroglycerine ( opposed to implode).

2.

to burst, fly into pieces, or break up violently with a loud report, as a boiler from excessive pressure of steam.

 You're welcome.

Bow-OWwwwwww!

I have to give democommie the credit for finding this story, but I'm the one who thought it deserved being published here.  If ever there was a story which speaks for itself, this is it.

From Yahoo.com:

Man is accidentally shot by his own dog

By Eric Pfeiffer | The Sideshow – 18 hrs ago

Duck Hunt gone awry

Dogs are man's best friend. Except, you know, when they're shooting a gun at you. And strangely enough, that's what really happened to a hapless dog owner in Brigham City, Utah. The man in question--a 46-year-old hunting enthusiast who is not named in local news reports on the incident--got a behind-full of birdshot courtesy of his loyal canine companion when he was out duck hunting over the weekend.
KSL.com reports the man and his dog were traveling in a canoe-like boat when the man stepped out into a shallow marsh to set up some decoys. His left his 12-gauge shotgun resting across the bow of the boat, according to Box Elder County Sheriff's Deputy Kevin Potter.
That's when the dog "did something to make the gun discharge," Potter said. "I don't know if the safety device was on. It's not impossible the dog could have taken it off safety."
Apparently excited to join his owner in the marsh, the dog jumped up on the boat's bow and stepped on the gun. The gun was fired, hitting the man in the buttocks with 27 pellets of birdshot.
The man promptly called 9-1-1, and is now reportedly recovering. Potter said that thanks to a well-positioned pair of waders--the hip-length rubber boots he was wearing at the time--the dog owner was able to avoid a more serious gunshot wound.