11-year old "engineer" needs counseling
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From: JeffM on 16 Jan 2010 21:49 >don wrote: >>http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/jan/15/students-evacuated-school-chollas-view/ >> Joel Koltner wrote: >That's sad. >I wonder what "school policies" he supposedly violated? > Here's what's really sad: :The school, which[...]emphasizes technology skills[...] : :the project was made of an empty half-liter Gatorade bottle :with some wires and other electrical components attached : :A vice principal saw the student showing it to other students :[...]and was concerned that it might be harmful : The problem here is that the adults who are supposed to be teaching the kids technology can't tell an empty bottle from a nuclear bomb. :San Diego police were notified[...] : ....and, apparently, neither can the cops. :A MAST robot took pictures of the device :and X-rays were evaluated. : Substituting expensive toys for intelligence. The 1925 John Scopes "Monkey Trial" was the turning point. The chance that kids might actually learn evolution made sure the Scientific Method was gone from the classroom. Sputnik was a temporary reprieve, but since the Berlin Wall fell we have the Bible Thumpers at it again. >A guy[...]was telling me[...]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. :-) > Way too much effort. Just plop down your Mystery Shock Box and wait for curiosity to have its way.
From: Dirk Bruere at NeoPax on 16 Jan 2010 22:14 Joel Koltner wrote: > <don> wrote in message > news:HeGdne8ObvOX3M_WnZ2dnUVZ_jhi4p2d(a)forethought.net... >> http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/jan/15/students-evacuated-school-chollas-view/ >> > > 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. -- Dirk http://www.transcendence.me.uk/ - Transcendence UK http://www.theconsensus.org/ - A UK political party http://www.blogtalkradio.com/onetribe - Occult Talk Show
From: Dirk Bruere at NeoPax on 16 Jan 2010 22:15 Joel Koltner wrote: > Come to think of it... when I was in high school, my biology teacher -- > who was into RC aircraft -- asked me to build him a little trigger (run > off a servo output) for a "solar ignitor" so that he could outfit his > aircraft with mock missiles made using model rocket engines. (Solar > ignitors are two wires coated with something nicely flammable -- you > shove them into the end of a model rocket engine, run a few amps through > it, it starts burning -- very hot -- and ignites the rocket engine itself.) > > So I did. > > I delivered it to him at school. > > Although I was disappointed that he decided, in the interim, that there > was a significant chance a missile firing off would destroy his plane in > the process, so he never tried it out in the air. > > These days he'd undoubtedly be in jail and I'd be at court-mandated > "counseling." > > Sheesh. Well, yes. That's a cruise missile. -- Dirk http://www.transcendence.me.uk/ - Transcendence UK http://www.theconsensus.org/ - A UK political party http://www.blogtalkradio.com/onetribe - Occult Talk Show
From: Son of a Sea Cook on 17 Jan 2010 00:02 On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 03:14:50 +0000, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere(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-school-chollas-view/ >>> >> >> 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.
From: Dirk Bruere at NeoPax on 17 Jan 2010 00:05
Son of a Sea Cook wrote: > On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 03:14:50 +0000, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax > <dirk.bruere(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-school-chollas-view/ >>>> >>> 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. -- Dirk http://www.transcendence.me.uk/ - Transcendence UK http://www.theconsensus.org/ - A UK political party http://www.blogtalkradio.com/onetribe - Occult Talk Show |