11-year old "engineer" needs counseling
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From: Richard Henry on 17 Jan 2010 15:10 On Jan 17, 3:19 am, Son of a Sea Cook <NotaBrews...(a)thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote: > On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 05:05:57 +0000, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax > > > > > > <dirk.bru...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >Son of a Sea Cook wrote: > >> On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 03:14:50 +0000, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax > >> <dirk.bru...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > >>> Joel Koltner wrote: > >>>> <don> wrote in message > >>>>news:HeGdne8ObvOX3M_WnZ2dnUVZ_jhi4p2d(a)forethought.net... > >>>>>http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/jan/15/students-evacuated-sch... > > >>>> That's sad. I wonder what "school policies" he supposedly violated? > > >>>> A guy I'm acquainted with was telling me the other day that he build a > >>>> Xenon flash bulb driver circuit from Popular Electronics back in the > >>>> '80s, took it to school, and tried to convince his "friends" to touch > >>>> the output terminals while he hit the trigger button. :-) > > >>>> I suppose these days you'd get expelled for that sort of thing... > > >>>> When I was in high school I built various "photogate" sensors and > >>>> timers... the photogates were made out of PVC piping (cheap, strong, and > >>>> readily available); no doubt that'd get you in trouble today too. > > >>>> Make Magazine must be considered terrorist literature by now... > > >>>> ---Joel > > >>> When I was in school I took a jar of homemade napalm to show around. > >>> Teachers were quite impressed. > >>> Of course, that was in the 1960s. > > >> I wore a Dan'l Boone outfit, including a .22 cal pellet rifle on two > >> occasions at our elementary schools. They were loaded. > > >> We used to take rockets to school too. > > >> I used to hit .22 rounds on a flat rock with a hammer a lot too... > >> before our sub-division got completed. > > >And let's not forget the chem and physics class where bored students > >rolled balls of mercury along the bench. > > Metallic form Mercury is not dangerous.- Well, not entirely not dangerous. http://www.sciencelab.com/xMSDS-Mercury-9927224
From: Tim Williams on 17 Jan 2010 15:17 "Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> wrote in message news:4B5350A6.5A8ABD82(a)earthlink.net... > That's why I only use green wire for projects. No red or blue wire = > no bomb. How do you get any signals through if they're all ground wires? ;-) Tim -- Deep Friar: a very philosophical monk. Website: http://webpages.charter.net/dawill/tmoranwms
From: Jim Thompson on 17 Jan 2010 15:23 On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:37:41 GMT, Howard Eisenhauer <howarde(a)NOSPAMhfx.eastlink.ca> wrote: >On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:28:37 -0800, "Joel Koltner" ><zapwireDASHgroups(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > >*Snip* > >> >>When I was in high school I built various "photogate" sensors and timers... >>the photogates were made out of PVC piping (cheap, strong, and readily >>available); no doubt that'd get you in trouble today too. >> >>Make Magazine must be considered terrorist literature by now... >> >>---Joel > > >When I was in high school the physics teachers used to charge up >capacitors & leave them lying around on the lab benches for the first >year students. One of my buddies got wise to this ahead of time & >sprayed his fingertips with clear acrylic before class. Went in, >picked up the cap, waited for the dissappointed look on teach's face >then handed it over to him. > >Priceless :> > >H. That's a really good one! I had a Plane Geometry instructor who was perpetually bumming a stick of gum... until I loaded a stick with "red hots" ;-) ...Jim Thompson -- | James E.Thompson, CTO | mens | | Analog Innovations, Inc. | et | | Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus | | Phoenix, Arizona 85048 Skype: Contacts Only | | | Voice:(480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat | | E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 | I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
From: Archimedes' Lever on 17 Jan 2010 15:29 On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 12:03:29 -0800 (PST), Richard Henry <pomerado(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >On Jan 17, 7:05�am, Jan Panteltje <pNaonStpealm...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >> Parkinson's law: if a company becomes big enough it will sustain itself,. >> Did not work for Enron though YMMV. > >Enron was not as big as they claimed to be. You ain't real bright. They were not in death, but while they thrived, they thrived.
From: Dirk Bruere at NeoPax on 17 Jan 2010 15:31
Falk Willberg wrote: > Jan Panteltje schrieb: >> On a sunny day (Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:02:20 +0100) it happened Falk Willberg >> <Faweglassenlk(a)falk-willberg.de> wrote in > > ... > >>> But it is also general knowledge how to deactivate any bomb: Wait for >>> the counter to go down to 00:05 and the cut the *blue* wire. (Never cut >>> the red wire!) >> I think it is the red. > > That's true for communist bombs only, islamistic bombs have a green > wire, catholic bombs purple. Creationist's bomb have no wire, but a > counter that counts the seconds to Armageddon. > > SCNR, > Falk Don't you recall the old saying? "Cut the red and you are dead" Anyway, that's yet another Hollywood myth that pisses me off, like bombs that have: a) A convenient LED countdown b) Wires all over the place c) Explosive with wires going to detonators stuck into it. Of course, hero never thinks of simply pulling out the detonators. Always goes for trying to work out which wire to cut. And if for some reason the detonators cannot be removed, cutting away most of the HE will tend to minimize the final explosion. -- Dirk http://www.transcendence.me.uk/ - Transcendence UK http://www.theconsensus.org/ - A UK political party http://www.blogtalkradio.com/onetribe - Occult Talk Show |