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More Ways to Blow Things Up

pitabutter writes "Since the /. crowd seems to appreciate the exciting combination of amateur chemistry and fearlessness (what is it about intelligence and the desire to blow things up?), Sam Barros' site would be worth a look. Rail guns, high voltage, electromagnetic experiements-all there and with videos to boot. Unable to confirm if Sam still has appendages intact........"

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  1. intelligence? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Q: what is it about intelligence and the desire to blow things up?

    A: they are inversely proportional. just look at the current US administration.

  2. Good lesson for an engineering student by kuhneng · · Score: 5, Funny

    > January 26th:
    > PowerLabs was featured on a ZZZ Article;
    > traffic triples (now at 4000+ hits/day).

    Let's see what he's learned about scalable designs. I guess Slashdot is going to be part of the "+".

  3. Differences in people... by cuyler · · Score: 5, Funny

    what is it about intelligence and the desire to blow things up?

    Oh no, you're wrong. Blowing things up is a univerisal love of all humans. It's just the un-intelligent ones only do it once.

  4. Babu smash! by Wraithlyn · · Score: 4, Funny

    "what is it about intelligence and the desire to blow things up?"

    I think that's more of a male thing than an intelligence thing.

    All you destructive women out there, feel free to violently disagree. And get it on camera, for fuck's sake.

    --
    "Mind, as manifested by the capacity to make choices, is to some extent present in every electron." -Freeman Dyson
  5. Re:gone are the days of mr wizard by collapser · · Score: 4, Funny

    electrocuting your weiner can kill anyone.
    Unless you're female, in which case it's someone else's.

    --
    <B>note to self:</B> <I>post as html</I>
  6. Re:gone are the days of mr wizard by Blind_Samurai · · Score: 4, Funny

    I have a vivid memory of my mother yelling from the upstairs, "What are you doing!?!" "Nothing..." I was dancing around holding a box fan and herding a big green cloud of chlorine gas I had just liberated from pool chemicals out one of those narrow rectangular windows. I didn't think it would make so much.

  7. Re:If you like this, try this, too.... by pipingguy · · Score: 4, Funny

    what the hell are those pressurized tanks in the bkgd? Are they really lighting LOX only 4 meters away from that much explosive material?

    Ahhh, one of my favorite sites.

    Don't worry, George knows what he's doing. That's why he's not allowed to do it anymore.