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  Science Projects HVAC <mr.hvac@gmail.com> - 2016-04-02 05:33 -0700
    Re: "Adult" Science Projects benj <none@gmail.com> - 2016-04-02 12:11 -0400
      Re: "Adult" Science Projects Fabian Russell <fb@zen.info> - 2016-04-03 12:01 +0000
        Re: "Adult" Science Projects benj <nobody@gmail.com> - 2016-04-04 00:48 -0400
    Re: Science Projects "nuny@bid.nes" <Alien8752@gmail.com> - 2016-04-02 13:51 -0700

#567417 — Science Projects

http://www.grunge.com/8924/science-projects-youll-want-adult/?utm_source=zergnet.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=zergnet_871029

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#567474 — Re: "Adult" Science Projects

On 04/02/2016 08:33 AM, HVAC wrote:
> http://www.grunge.com/8924/science-projects-youll-want-adult/?utm_source=zergnet.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=zergnet_871029

Adult science projects my ass! These don't even qualify as kid science 
projects! Sure that "teaser" photograph at the beginning shows a proper 
science project, but the rest is just Lib journalist nonsense. Libs 
never have any understanding of science.

Sure disgusting creatures are great, but you have to live where the are. 
Now when I was a kid I made a nice vacuum pump out of an old 
refrigerator compressor and would send various worms "to the moon". My 
first great discovery was that only corn ear worms can survive on the 
moon. I'd put them in the jar and they'd be going round and round.As the 
pump ran they slow and slow until they stopped. Then you could keep 
pumping with them laying there, but when you let air back in they'd be 
going round and round again! Nasa needed to be aware of this fact but 
the peer review censorship wouldn't let me publish! Big green juicy 
Tomato worms were truly disgusting. They'd literally explode into a 
green mess on the moon!

But we all know that REAL science is dangerous and blows things up. As a 
kid I had lots of fun with experiments with explosives using atomized 
aluminum powder! A friend of mine was into rockets. He built this one 
about 6 feet long out of a stainless steel tube with solid conical nose 
cone. Filled it with micrograin (note that today more than an ounce or 
so of micrograin will put you in prison for years). They set it off and 
the thing just "disappeared" into the sky. Some time later cops showed 
up at his home. They found his rocket embedded in the median of the 
freeway. They pulled the bumper off a cop car trying to pull it out of 
the ground. Cops were NOT happy.

REAL science isn't sucking some stupid egg into a bottle! REAL science 
is dangerous and exciting! You know. Playing with disgusting animals 
that can kill you. Setting off things that can blow you to kingdom come. 
This is why government science is so kool! You get to build things that 
can actually destroy the planet and wipe out all of humanity!

Now THAT is what "adult" science is all about! The only thing you spooks 
ever do is use the cool stuff WE gave you and then you think that makes 
YOU cool. IT DOESN'T.

HVAC you can prattle all the time with your puerile nonsense about Tesla 
and his birds, but the TRUTH is that Tesla knew EXACTLY what an ADULT 
science project was all about:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3b6_1187215494

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY-AS13fl30

HVAC you are such a fucking amateur!
(PS. I believe in Tesla coils)


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#567664 — Re: "Adult" Science Projects

On Sat, 02 Apr 2016 12:11:06 -0400, benj wrote:

> 
> But we all know that REAL science is dangerous and blows things up.
> 
> REAL science isn't sucking some stupid egg into a bottle! REAL science 
> is dangerous and exciting!
>

Utter shit nonsense.

Dangerous acts are fodder for idiots, which is why the "popular"
science media makes them their stock in trade.

Perhaps the most "exciting" DIY experiment that I've ever
performed was measuring the thermodynamic activity coefficient
of an aqueous electrolyte solution and comparing that measurement
with a theoretical calculation.

Another of equal "thrill" was determining the FFT spectrum
of various objects to explore the idea of non-harmonic
vibrations.

In these cases the excitement and thrills are largely
in the mind.

Scientists DO engage in risky experiments, but only
after establishing highly safe protocols, and the
danger or risk is NEVER the primary, or even secondary,
motivation.

Any scientist who seeks explosions for the sake of
the explosion has psychological, or at least maturation,
problems.

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#567774 — Re: "Adult" Science Projects

On 04/03/2016 08:01 AM, Fabian Russell wrote:
> On Sat, 02 Apr 2016 12:11:06 -0400, benj wrote:
>
>>
>> But we all know that REAL science is dangerous and blows things up.
>>
>> REAL science isn't sucking some stupid egg into a bottle! REAL science
>> is dangerous and exciting!
>>
>
> Utter shit nonsense.
>
> Dangerous acts are fodder for idiots, which is why the "popular"
> science media makes them their stock in trade.
>
> Perhaps the most "exciting" DIY experiment that I've ever
> performed was measuring the thermodynamic activity coefficient
> of an aqueous electrolyte solution and comparing that measurement
> with a theoretical calculation.
>
> Another of equal "thrill" was determining the FFT spectrum
> of various objects to explore the idea of non-harmonic
> vibrations.
>
> In these cases the excitement and thrills are largely
> in the mind.
>
> Scientists DO engage in risky experiments, but only
> after establishing highly safe protocols, and the
> danger or risk is NEVER the primary, or even secondary,
> motivation.

Sure they do....not. Perhaps you've forgotten that the Manhattan project 
scientists after determining that there was a possibility that the 
atomic bomb might set the earth's atmosphere on fire and destroy all 
life on the planet, naturally they set it off anyway!  Or perhaps you 
are unaware of the Hydrogen bomb set off in space (In violation of the 
Test ban treaty) that left a huge ring of radiation that is still there 
doing who knows what to the climate.  When it comes to "adult science" 
gummint is king.

> Any scientist who seeks explosions for the sake of
> the explosion has psychological, or at least maturation,
> problems.

FFT spectrum thrills? What? You took a break from your accounting job to 
do a little science?  Anyway there are LOTS of ways to make things blow 
up without using explosives.  Trust me.

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#567554

On Saturday, April 2, 2016 at 5:33:12 AM UTC-7, HVAC wrote:
> http://www.grunge.com/8924/science-projects-youll-want-adult/?utm_source=zergnet.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=zergnet_871029

  This is for adults:

http://www.amazon.com/Scientific-Americans-The-Amateur-Scientist/dp/097034760X

  Science is more convincing when you do it yourself.


  Mark L. Fergerson

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