Adam Aglionby said:
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Think it was probably a poor attempt at trolling.
The book references I gave are in part the argument against people claiming
that the internet is a home for nutters looking to build bombs, their local
library has been providing them this service long before the internet.
Explosives are a good way to get young people interested in science in
general, manufacturing even basic explosives is non trivial and knowing how
it is done, is far different from being capable of doing it.
There are pyrotechnic news groups for those who wish to pursue an interest.
So no kewl gunz `n` bombz here.
Adam
When I was a young idiot, well, nerd would be a better word, but nobody had
heard of nerds back then in 19 her humm, a friend of mine and I took up
rocket building. We were also into grinding our own mirrors for Cassgrain
Telescopes, but the rockets were a lot more dynamic, either vertically or,
all too often, horizontally!
We lived in Ontario, on the north shore of Lake Ontario, and our final
effort was a six foot job, fuelled by a mixture of sublimated sulfur and
powdered aluminum, chemically sintered using alchahol. For reasons known
only to 16 year olds, we decided that the safest place to fire it was south
into the lake.
It worked beautifully, went up until we lost sight of it and, presumably,
fell somewhere in the lake or, if it worked as well as it seemed, in New
York State, where I presently live. (If I ever find a long aluminum tube in
my garden, with a ceramic nozzle at one end and a lamp shade at the other,
I'll know where it came from.)
We were just packing up and putting our launch rail into the back of Ron's
dad's pickup, (which we had "borrowed") when the RCMP. the OPP and the RCAF
all turned up. Our rocket had set off a major NORAD alert!
Up to that time I didn't really know what the expression "deep shit" really
meant, but I sure found out over the next few hours. We were so grounded I
still sometimes wonder if I'm allowed out of the house!
What is this all leading up to. Well, there are ways to get interested in
science and there are other ways to get interested in science. Building
bombs and killer rockets are not good ways to get interested. People get
hurt. The builders blow their hands off, and get very little sympathy. We
were lucky, we managed to put together a working rocket, and survived to
tell the tale, but we could so easily have blown our fool heads off and
those of anyone else who happened to be nearby at the time.
So, please, Adam, don't encourage anyone to experiment with pyrotechnics.
Unless the experimenter is a part of a group which actually knows what it's
doing, and by group I don't mean Hammas or their ilk, then they will be a
menace to themselves and everyone around them. If they are building a bomb
with the intent to do harm with it, such encouragement borders on the
criminal.
So the answer to "I'm building a bomb, what do I need?" is either "A
different hobby." or "Psychiatric help."
John