Posted on 04/06/2016 12:38:47 PM PDT by Gamecock
I haven’t looked at the whole thread, but surely somebody has posted the Wiley Coyote graphic by now ...
There is model rocketry, with factory produced motors, igniters, and remote launch controls, all of which allow a safe hobby. We used to experiment by attaching the motors to small cars, and planes(among other things) but we were smart enough to run the wire out a safe distance when we ignited the motors.
I understand completely. I was born on the day John Glenn went up.it’s never too late!
I was thinking more ACME.
Classic!!!
Authorities say the experiment wasn’t sanctioned by the elementary school.....DUH! Who did sanction it? LIBERALS,MMMMH.
-PJ
Yep, there is a good reason that the wires to the igniter is so long. But then maybe he watched Wyle E. Coyote walk away from so many disaster that he thought he wouldn’t be harmed. And since those old cartoons didn’t have warnings that people shouldn’t try this at home, I think that Warner Bros is acceptable.
I am saddened by the lack of sympathy in some of the remarks posted here..... Don’t be be saddened. Sometimes, once in a while, certain situations are so over the top, blatently, jaw-dropping stupid that even tragedy brings on a hilarious response. It is merely human.
Ah, cool. Yep, those rocket engines went quick. Sure went quick! PFFFFT! ALMOST makes me want to fool with them again but I know it’d be frowned upon by the sour-ass city cops here. Too noisy. Sure were fun, though!
Well put.
I did so many stupid things with rockets and explosives as a kid, but miraculously... here I am!
Boys will be boys.
Kid had guts.
In our bubblewrapped nerf world, of course it wasn't
LOL. My 7th grade science teacher wouldn't teach me (probably good judgment on his part), so I went to the library encyclopedia and looked it up. I later snuck into the science lab, got the ingredients, mixed them together, poured out a line and lit it. Poof! It left a terrible scar on the wall and stunk up half the school. I eventually had to fess up. The grownups were not happy. 45 years later, that scar still remains.
As I remember it, we made about 5 pounds of the stuff.
The “rocket” was about 4’ long and we had a “shuttle” on the back of it which was about 1.75” long.
Lucky we didn’t kill ourselves!
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