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loonatic112358

2012-01-30 01:34:48 PM

Perhaps it was the Mad Science lab, and something got out of hand.

Arkanaut

2012-01-30 01:35:36 PM

Maybe some clown threw a block of lithium in the toilet?

hugram

2012-01-30 01:38:25 PM

I'll never get over paper mache.

moops

2012-01-30 01:39:32 PM

A distraction to obtain some badly needed meth cooking and body disposal* supplies.

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/unsure why a school would ever have gallons and gallons of hydrofluoric acid

brantgoose

2012-01-30 01:41:39 PM

school science project + burning down the school = most popular 4^th grade nerd ever!

I can't for the life of me think of a Simpsons episode with this plot. Apparently they have not done it yet.

brantgoose

2012-01-30 01:46:50 PM

Using real lava in your school science project--that's a detention.

It's nice to see that more kids are studying Mad Science. There's been a dearth of great Mad Scientists since the James Bond franchise tapered off and MST3K went off the air. Sure you hear about Wunderkinder who make breakthroughs in genetics or something, or build a nuclear reactor in the old greenhouse, but they just don't seem to do much damage. The Nanny State has got to the educational toy industry. They're not even allowed to put the ingredients for interesting explosives and poisons in chemistry sets any more. If you want Plutonium you have to order it off the web and the wussy mailman won't deliver it.

(I kid you not. You can buy Plutonium samples. Maybe not enough to build a bomb, but there is a supplier.)

brantgoose

2012-01-30 01:47:53 PM

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Evil Mackerel

2012-01-30 01:50:35 PM

Militant creationists started the fire.

BurnShrike

2012-01-30 01:50:57 PM

Science FTW

Mentalpatient87

2012-01-30 01:53:11 PM

"Wasn't me this time."

/Sphinx!

SurfGirl69

2012-01-30 01:54:28 PM

Subby spelled shcool wrong.

MBooda

2012-01-30 02:02:55 PM

Now with pics

interluder

2012-01-30 02:11:29 PM

Peter is in on this, I bet -
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Russ1642

2012-01-30 02:12:07 PM

moops: A distraction to obtain some badly needed meth cooking and body disposal* supplies.

/unsure why a school would ever have gallons and gallons of hydrofluoric acid

US high schools won't let students bring butter knives to school but they keep 'sure and painful death' chemicals on tap.

meat0918

2012-01-30 02:23:04 PM

CSB Time

Back in high school, the bio teacher caught the chemical storage room that sat inbetween his classroom and the chemistry class room on fire while melting some wax for a dissecting tray on a hot plate. A can of silver nitrate was the only thing that really went boom (besides the old wiring), but it got really close to the container of 8mol hydrocloric acid store there.

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2012-01-30 02:25:24 PM

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Russ1642

2012-01-30 02:27:25 PM

brantgoose: school science project + burning down the school = most popular 4th grade nerd ever!

I can't for the life of me think of a Simpsons episode with this plot. Apparently they have not done it yet.

Bart blew up the Science lab in that school for geniuses he attended.

WelldeadLink

2012-01-30 02:35:50 PM

low water pressure is hampering efforts to put the fire out.

Did someone not turn off the pump for the water rocket fleet launcher?

Missicat

2012-01-30 02:36:25 PM

interluder: Peter is in on this, I bet -
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Came for The Brady Bunch reference. Realizes I am old and leaves.

BretMavrik

2012-01-30 02:50:31 PM

While we're sharing science lab disaster CSBs...

Our science lab was in between the chemistry and physics rooms. In our senior year ('88), our physics teacher was pretty much AWOL; in the final quarter he gave us a course packet and basically told us, "get all this done, I've got to work on coaching the speech and debate team", giving us free access to the lab and everything in it.

One day we were in there, the pair at the lab table next to me had gotten some phosphorus sticks out of the jar and had laid them on a paper towel on the lab table. If you've ever seen those, you know they're stored in water because phosphorus will ignite when exposed to air. Of course, once enough of the water evaporated the phosphorus sticks ignited, setting the paper towels on fire as well. One of the guys panicked and pulled one end of the paper towel up, hoping to flip the burning phosphorus into the sink. Not only did he miss, but he pulled the towel up so fast and so far that the phosphorus sticks fell onto the table and splattered, so half the top of the table was now on fire.

We all grabbed a bunch of our own paper towels and soaked them, and then went about trying to douse and scoop up as much of the phosphorus as we could. We were able to get everything put out, but now we're all standing there with a bunch of phosphorus-soaked paper towels. We had nothing airtight in which to store the stuff, so we decided to lay them out on the sidewalk in front of the class so the paper could dry out and let everything just burn off. It worked, but it took a while and in the meantime the period ended and there were a bunch of students out walking by and wondering what was going on. We just mumbled something about finishing up a lab experiment; luckily no teachers were out and about at the time. Several of us were late to our next class, but luckily most of us had the same class so when four of us walked in at the same time and said we were late because we were helping the physics teacher finish some lab work, the teacher took our word for it. Our physics teacher never knew what happened.

There are a few other good stories from that class, but that's enough for now.

MBooda

2012-01-30 02:54:24 PM

interluder: Peter is in on this, I bet -
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Hm, my money is on...
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Guest

2012-01-30 02:55:37 PM

looks like someone didn't wish to return to school after the summer holidays. This is in Australia and the kiddies return to school late this week or early next week.

jim515

2012-01-30 03:14:45 PM

Dr Heinz Doofenshmirtz is crushed as his latest invention has been beaten in the school science fair by another baking powder and vinegar volcano.

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/Curse you Perry the Platypus
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BFletch651

2012-01-30 03:34:50 PM

Missicat: interluder: Peter is in on this, I bet -
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Came for The Brady Bunch reference. Realizes I am old and leaves.

Wait for me.

Jim_Callahan

2012-01-30 04:00:57 PM

brantgoose: (I kid you not. You can buy Plutonium samples. Maybe not enough to build a bomb, but there is a supplier.)

You can buy enough plutonium to build as many bombs as you want, but if you can afford the facilities to enrich the stuff to the point it's actually useful for such I don't know why you would want a nuke in the first place, since you're obviously already Bruce Wayne or Lex Luthor and could just buy half of Russia's arsenal for the same price.

//Assuming you don't kill yourself first, Plutonium Oxide is a fine dust that easily becomes airborne and thence and alpha emitter in your lungs. There's a reason Uranium and Unobtanium are the materials of choice for the reason-challenged members of the scientific community.

//Shares BretMavrik's experience with being handed a course packet and access to the storeroom and told we'd all get As if we managed a 3+ on the AP exam at the end of the year. The only time the guy really showed up and wasn't playing on the computer or reading the paper with his feet up were the oxide-displacement experiments, because everyone loves thermite.

lack of warmth

2012-01-30 04:17:46 PM

This story makes me sad. If my schools didn't have science labs, I wouldn't be the mad scientist I am today. My experiments make my wife nervous. I started wearing flame resistant shirts.

vegasgurl

2012-01-30 04:24:06 PM

In before incendiary lemons?

/didn't rtfa

MBooda

2012-01-30 04:25:30 PM

lack of warmth: This story makes me sad. If my schools didn't have science labs, I wouldn't be the mad scientist I am today.

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I won a math debate

2012-01-30 06:13:50 PM

Was this guy a guest lecturer?

Rubix^3

2012-01-30 06:30:16 PM

Ivo Shandor

2012-01-31 12:47:13 AM

Jim_Callahan: You can buy enough plutonium to build as many bombs as you want, but if you can afford the facilities to enrich the stuff to the point it's actually useful for such I don't know why you would want a nuke in the first place, since you're obviously already Bruce Wayne or Lex Luthor and could just buy half of Russia's arsenal for the same price.

Plutonium doesn't need the same enrichment process that uranium does. The useful U-235 isotope is only 0.7% of natural uranium, but when you produce plutonium most of it is fissile Pu-239. Just alloy it with some gallium to stabilize the delta phase, slap on some anti-corrosion nickel plating, and you're good to go.

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