Comments on: Don’t Try This at Home: Totally Dangerous Experiments

By: Frank SHERWIN

Frank SHERWIN — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:47:50 +0000

Reminds me of the time-honored warning: Whenever a good ol’ boy from the South says, “Hey everybody – watch THIS” stand well back – it’s probably the last thang he’ll ever do.

By: Aemi

Aemi — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 18:36:14 +0000

My dad told me about how he and three of his friends played with enormous Tesla coils, giant speakers, receivers, chemicals, and a bunch of other fun things during his college days. I’ll be sure to befriend a few science majors.

By: John

John — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 02:57:06 +0000

Nice post, but it seems a little incomplete without mention of liquid oxygen…I suggest a Google search on “Grilling with liquid oxygen”.

By: Larissa

Larissa — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 23:13:26 +0000

Poor Peeps. All they wanted was to bring joy to some kid on a bright spring day. Sadly, they found themselves used for experimentation much more than for satiation.

Why is the phrase “horribly melted Peeps” so funny to me? It gives me the giggles. Must be the Nitrous Oxide fumes from my failed Peeps experiment.

By: Kasee

Kasee — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 21:53:08 +0000

Oh dear, flashbacks of chemist/physicist parties! They usually start with, “Hey I found some old Sterno!” and result in singed digits, vapourized haybails and/or horribly melted Peeps. I never studied Chemistry or Physics, but those were good times!

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:46:38 +0000

He was in the Navy?!? No doubt a nuclear engineer on a sub or aircraft carrier.

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 16:23:09 +0000

The most dangerous thing I’ve done is filled a giant balloon with hydrogen (used a chemical reaction to get it out of muriatic acid, which is mostly HCl) and ignited it.

Much less dangerous things include cooking a hot dog with a Tesla coil, sticking my hand in liquid nitrogen (if you’re quick, there are no problems), and sticking liquid nitrogen in a vacuum chamber (which makes the surface boil away very fast then freeze).

By: Sid Morrison

Sid Morrison — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:15:50 +0000

The Radioactive Boy Scout link is a bit dated. Mr. Hahn, now 31, is out of the Navy, but has not exactly taken the straight and narrow path.

In the last few days he was arrrested for stealing smoke detectors from his apartment complex. His mug shot shows his face covered in radiation sores! The cute little tike has all grown up but he’s still into nuclear mischief! Hah hah, nice pic, dude! Somebody need a little Proactiv solution?

See:
freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070803/NEWS04/70803062
and
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 14:41:37 +0000

Thanks, Simon! I think I have it fixed now.

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 14:20:19 +0000

The Radioactive Boy Scout link does not work.