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This is depressing; The passing of DIY science
Topic Started: Jun 6 2006, 02:45 PM (220 Views)
Bernard
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It seems the bad guys are winning.

Don't Try This At Home
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The 89th Key
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Who, the ACLU? ^_^
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big al
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No, 89th, not the ACLU.

All I can say is that when chemicals are outlawed, only outlaws will have chemicals. :chill:

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Shammy
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WHEN WILL THIS BULLCARP CEASE?????

What??? You can't even make a volcano anymore????

Homeland Security???? Should be homeland insanity!!!!!
I'd rather fall into chocolate.
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ivorythumper
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
I could just see my 11th birthday party invaded by BATF when I got the Junior Chemistry set.

(why are those black helicopters hovering on the horizon???)

GOTTA GO!!!!
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kentcouncil
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I'll be honest... in high school, I did make explosives with my friend Colin in his garage in high school. I know lots of people who did the same.

If Homeland Security had been around to shut us down, Colin might still have five fingers, instead of two, on his left hand.
It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A. B. Spottsworth to make the obituary column. He thought the lion was dead, and the lion thought it wasn't.

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Friday
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I think a lot of us did stuff like that.

When I was in junior high a bunch of us made a bomb. I missed it going off for some reason, but my brother swears that it actually mushroomed. We were young and bored and free (aka unsupervised) and definitely not terrorists.

I'm a mom now and I would never let my kids do that alone.

My poor kids....
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Rick Zimmer
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We now live in a society where all citizens are assumed to be suspicious. All of our phone calls are being tracked; millions are being listened to. The Justice Department wants all of our email records. All of us must go through extensive security measures at the airports, even though much of airport operations remain un-secured. All of us must go through metal detectors and have our bags checked whenever we go into certain buildings or to certain venues, even as the back passages to these buildings are not secured.

As long as the Federal government starts with the premise that no American is to be trusted, we are going to see more and more of this. And as long as Americans are motivated more by fear than a love of liberty, this will continue.

One would think that 4 years after 9/11, the Feds ability to identify at least some distinguishing characteristics of terrorists and terrorist-like activity would have begun to be honed, thus allowng them to focus their efforts and ease their suspicions of ordinary Americans. But this is not the case. Rather, the Feds under Bush have spent their time and efforts trying to find more ways to check up on and monitor the activites of ordinary Americans.

It is sad what is happening to our country. It is sadder still that we are allowing it.
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Bernard
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From the article,
"One key to working as a DIY chemist, says Matthew Ernst, the 25-year-old host of Sciencemadness, is realizing how many useful chemicals are still available as household products or items designed for specialized niches. Silver nitrate, for example, can be found at potters’ supply stores, where it lends raku glazes an uncanny luster.

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Taking chemicals and lab equipment away from kids who love science is like taking crayons and paints away from a kid who may grow up to be an artist.”


I can't help but make the connection. How long before great pottery pieces will have to be fashioned clandestinely?
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Aqua Letifer
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...is realizing how many useful chemicals are still available as household products or items designed for specialized niches.


Perzactly. Can't ever shut a good scientist down. :biggrin: Just need to know where to look!

I cite irreconcilable differences.
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Optimistic
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HOLY CARP!!!
"One can make all kinds of explosives using simple household items, if one were so inclined."
PHOTOS

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.
- Mark Twain


We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
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