Schoolboy, 13, becomes youngest person to carry out nuclear fusion
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The kid made it onto the news. You didn't. Get over yourself. If I had posted the article would you be all over it?
Been in the news a few times, thanks (and on the occasional post office wall). All the shots you can take at me won't turn repeating experiments into doing science.
Only YOU have made the comparison. More sensible folk know practice makes perfect. Give the kid his due. He didn't make a discovery. He completed an assignment.
WTG, Jamie.
BTW, T-bones, if you've ever been in a lab doing work in a project or testing an experiment, you ARE doing work in science as long as you follow the method. It isn't quite the same as if you've baked a cake from a recipe.
And learning? IMO, anyone that has quit learning is dead (at least from the neck up).
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And speaking of that; I remember the best science experiment I ever saw and it was in grade 10. Aw the memories. That was back in the day when each science desk had a gas tap attached to it. Yes folks a gas tap so we could make our bunsen-burners work.
But I digress.
Science teacher had some big huge metal container with a rubber hose attached to it at the front of the classroom. Little bunsen-burner was all fired up with the gas just a pouring into it. He loaded it up with flour and god knows what else. The experiment was some kind of home made concoction that was going to produce a little bomb which would blow the lid gently off and it was to be made from chemicals that all homes had just lying around in those days.
So he set it all up but he needed a bit of help. Someone had to blow into the rubber tube. Who better to ask than the brightest kid in the class a quiet little Asian girl who us blondes had not yet corrupted. We did later and she was a blast but this was before that, pretty much a few months after she got off of the boat actually.
So anyway, he was going to signal her and then she would blow into the rubber tube and something would happen. We didn't know what yet.... the suspense was underwhelming while he rattled off and we watched the procedure while feigning interest and supposedly taking notes and chatting about the upcoming school dance.
All of a sudden...whooooooooooooooooosh there was this huge fire ball at the front of the room, this lid goes flying up to the ceiling and this huge bang happened simultaneously. Fuking flour flew into the air igniting the fire more... Teacher almost had his head blown off, scorched his scalp, flour all over his face and he was freaking.
You're 15, your teacher almost had his head burned off, you realize slowly, and he is howling about blowing too soon before cue, the room is on fire and hell we couldn't stop laughing. Almost as funny as in grade 6 when a huge map came down and smashed Sister Anaclita's head.
Most memorable experiment ever.
my gawd I had forgotten about that...gonna have to nudge my girlfriend's memory.... best laugh I have had today....
I remember Mr Bell, the lab instructor, snagging one of those very same bunsen burners with his lab coat. Fortunately, he knew enough to drop and roll - and there was an extinguisher close at hand
Not saying who did it, but someone scooped a couple buddies and made some nitroglycerin in the high school lab one time. It was low volatility but fun. blew up some stuff outside and put some in the rubber doodad on the bottom of the science teacher's chair. He wasn't impressed when half the leg disappeared when he sat down.
Another time, the same dudes switched the wiring for the light switch with the wiring for the fire alarm.
Ever see a piece of chalk with a wooden match hidden inside it light up on the blackboard?
Another time, the same dudes switched the wiring for the light switch with the wiring for the fire alarm.
Ever see a piece of chalk with a wooden match hidden inside it light up on the blackboard?
those were the good old days, there was a kid in class the size of a mouse with big glasses, weighed about 70 pounds soaking wet, kid was funnier than hell, had a line for everything, guys tied ropes around his ankles and lowered him upside down out the window to see if they could swing him like a pendulum outside the second floor classroom window.... kid could of died but hell we had fun... man did they get in trouble...wish I could remember his name...
Odd... I just posted about the crude dynamite that was the source of my high school lab explosion and Google wouldn't let it go through. :shock: Are we being watched?
To this day, I can't recall what was in the compost I poured my bacon grease into and let ferment....
To this day, I can't recall what was in the compost I poured my bacon grease into and let ferment....
lol yeah and now you will be on their terrorist watch list.... muhahahahahaha
'member how kids would leave the gas on just a bit.... gezuz how did we survive
ripped off, we didn't have o2, just gas, ya know, open flames, no safety goggles, real scalpels that could slice through damn near anything, ah those were the days when just going to school was risking your life...funny how no one died
Kermit was already deceased - but I'm sure there's a lawyer who'd take up the Indecency to a Dead Body gambit....
L'il begger could be worth a fortune now if he'd have patented hanging around - and called it bungee-jumping....