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The Boy and his Breeder Reactor
scubacuda writes "Here is an interesting tale about a Boy Scout who went a little too far in trying to achieve a merit badge in Atomic Energy. From smoke alarms, lantern components, the paint from radio clocks, and a little help from the Nuclear Regulator Commission, David Hahn attempted to build a nuclear reactor in his mother's shed. Regarding his excessive radioactive exposure, Hahn says, "I don't believe I took more than five years off my life."" While this is an oldish story (1998) it is not the pathetic self congratulatory lame princeton story.
Seriously, why are we posting this 4 *year* old story? And the editors even know it is 4 years old!
I don't suppose a story about Mozilla vs. Microsoft on CNN would be more useful than this old, useless story?
2002-06-17 17:43:06 Writeup on Mozilla vs. Microsoft (articles,mozilla) (rejected)
Hmmm...I guess not. Oh well. Old stories for all!
Lawrence Lessig is my personal hero.
It's official - /. has begun it's downhill slide with this "news item"
Note to moderators: This should be "+5 droll", or "+5 sarcastic", or even "+5 troll". Since none of those are available, I guess "+5 funny" will do.
Slashdot is jumping the shark. I'm just driving the boat.
Umm, if I remember properly isn't this an 'urban legend' like the jet powered chevy impala?
Actually the story of the jet powered chevy isn't an urban legend -- it really happened. Fox had a clip of the attempt on one of their "World's ..." shows. Some moron simply fastened two makeshift wings onto the sides of his car and equipped it with a jet engine. He was planning to jump over a river using a ramp. Well, when the car left the edge of the ramp and began the "jump" the wings fell off immediately and the car starting doing an end-over-end flip.
I remember laughing my ass off at that clip. It just looked so stupid. You could tell the moron had no clue what he was doing. Even when the announcer said the guy died in the attempt, it was still impossible to stop laughing. I guess maybe I'm a sicko or something...
GMD
watch this
Time to eat some Karma.
/. Reading stories in that section will require tolerating some troll activity, but at least it's a way of bypassing some narrow sighted power-triping editors.
I think it's Bullshit that Timothy or some other Tin Medal Dictator rejected the MS vs. Mozilla story. It's worth noting when the major media covers an open source project. Especially when that mdeia outlet in no other than CNN, a division of the company that owns Mozilla.
My only question is how long did it take to reject you story?
I suggest it's time for a rejected stories section on
Slashdot: Open source, not open-minded.