Re: Anyone here seen Brokeback Mountian yet?


"Rob Kleinschmidt" <Rkleinsch1216128@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Solo Rider wrote:
>> "Rob Kleinschmidt" <Rkleinsch1216128@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> > Solo Rider wrote:
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>> > A couple years ago I recall an arrest at a junior high for setting off
>> > some kind of minor explosive device in a trash can. And we weren't
>> > even into the war on terror yet. I suspect that these days, half of my
>> > classmates would have been hauled off to jail, probably by the
>> > FBI, for stuff that was considered harmless pranking a few years ago.
>>
>> I remember some of the stuff we made in Adv Chem in the late 60s. Go to
>> jail time indeed.
>
> Yup. One classmate who tried to pulverise black powder in
> a meat grinder. One kid hospitalized with shrapnel wounds,
> a few windows blown out and the perp expelled. End of story.
> Today, I think he'd be lucky not to wind up at Guantanamo.
>
> I remember in junior high, we used to make missile out of
> empy CO2 cartidges stuffed with propellant and launch them
> from a friends backyard. They always took off very nicely,
> but we could never figure out where they were landing.
>
> IEDs seemed to be OK, since it was all done in the name
> of science. People really seemed to believe in reefer madness
> though and that probably would have brought on an uproar
> equivalent to making a bomb today.

We did some demonstrations with thermite. Start a magnesium strip burning
with a Bunsen burner, which starts the thermite starter which ignites the
thermite. It looked a lot like this one:
http://www.ilpi.com/genchem/demo/thermite/ Awesome stuff

Interesting side effect came shortly thereafter. The city put a bunch of
parking meters around our campus to capture revenue from those of us
unwilling to park on campus (hell no you are not searching my car). One
night they were all destroyed. Magnesium strips were inserted via the coin
slots into the meter and then ignited. Instant meltdown.

For some of us monkey wrenching is a time honored tradition.


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