This is a video documenting Slow Mo Guys (previously) Gav and Dan’s quest to build a watermelon rocket-powered skateboard. It consists of a watermelon zip-tied to a skateboard with its butt stuffed with sparklers. It does move, but when Dan tries to ride it the board’s MPS (miles per sparkler)

NOTE: Turn down your volume, the apocalypse. This is some vintage footage from a 2012 fireworks show in San Diego in which a computer glitch (likely an artifact from Y2K twelve years earlier) caused the entirety of an 18 minute fireworks show to be ignited in just 25 seconds. It

This is a very brief video of Zeus adding his own bit of flair to a 4th of July fireworks show in Mustang, Oklahoma (never been, but I can imagine what it’s like). That’s cool, I love fireworks AND lightning. Is anybody working on a way to harvest lightning energy?

NOTE: VOLUME DOWN. This is a video of the Beyond The Press Youtube channel of 7,000 bricks of recalled fireworks all being ignited at once. But why were they recalled? Were they too unsafe? They’re FIREWORKS. Regardless, the all-at-once show is glorious. I only wish I could have been there

Because some people are determined to not take the danger of fireworks seriously *hides bandaged hand behind back* this is a video of a 4th of July mishap in which a garage full of fireworks starts a house fire. That is unfortunate for them. One minute you think you’re going

This is a flame rainbow, the ROYGBIV of fire created by adding methanol to different ionic salts (listed in the screenshot above in their respective tint), which result in the various flame colors. That’s cool. I was sort of hoping for one flame with all the different colors layered like

Because important scientific experiments take many different forms, this is a video of Youtuber HaerteRest packing a toilet bowl (and every other hole he could find) full with over 1,000 sparklers, then taking the toilet to the great outdoors to see what will happen when they’re all lit. SPOILER: it

This is a video of a couple firework sorting machines doing their thing. Their thing being sorting fireworks, in case you couldn’t tell from the obvious context clues. Being a detective isn’t for everyone, you know. Just look at all those firecrackers! It’s pretty crazy to think of just how