(I haven't posted here for about a year, on account of losing my yahoo account, but let's see if this direct email will work). Anyway - anyone want to weigh on...
Not sure if this has already been linked here, since I haven't been following the group for a year, but some of you guys might be interested in this stuff: I...
OMG! What happened to those cute little plastic blocks my kids & I played with? (Those annoying things I would step on in the middle of the night). Looks like...
Tracy, Ever play with ammonium tri-iodide (aka nitrogen tri-iodide) ? Water cooler pedals were great targets for it back in high school. That trick won me a...
This is a particularly troublesome development for science hobbyists, who often use the Web to find benign technical information that could also be used for...
Yep John. Sure have, A sideways glance can set it off. I was always fond of putting it on the wheels of office chairs. Ever play with acetone peroxide? All you...
... From: "Phil Bigelow" <bigelowp@...> ... Careful there, Phil... The Bushmaster (a very deadly snake) may put you on some kind of list for saying that! ...
... Constitution A constitution is just a working paper. You invoke it as cast-in-vanadium-steel when needed, as a declaration of general intent when...
Awww Man! I am such a goner. Quick John hide these links for me! http://www.tbotech.com/blow-gun.htm http://www.skylighter.com/mall/chemicals.asp?Sort=P ...
Hello Justin. Read and memorize this. http://sales.hamamatsu.com/assets/applications/ETD/pmt_handbook_comple te.pdf You may also find the publications posted...
Chlorate (not perchlorate) is very dangerous, if mixed with certain things it is very friction sensitive. Yep, I can confirm that. Burned the crap out of...
I was surprised to find brand names in ... odor of peroxide and "quite a lot of TATP," a primary high explosive. They also found the ingredients to make the...
Aarron mudrick did a nice write up on that subject. There is also this. http://www.hyperdeath.co.uk/chemicals/index.html Tracy ... I was surprised to find...
... While true with some fuel-oxidizer binaries, wetting the mixture is not always a guarantee of increased safety. Wet black powder can go bang as easily as...
... 10th grade, religious high school, found Ted Taylor's The Curve of Binding Energy. He describes NI3 as a rodenticide too. I had some iodine (this was...
... flame test a golf ball size chunk of acetone peroxide on a metal plate sitting the kitchen counter. Dude this is so Darwin-award out of control that I'm ...
... Plus general surfing on the latest news, eg I learned about the life cycle and culturing of anthrax from a UN veterinary site. CO2 is a signal to the...
Ya the poor mans james bond book isnt exacly clear about the power of AP. It describes it as detonator material that becomes unstable after a couple days. ...
... grinding Potassium Chlorate and red Phosphorus. From what I've read that is an attempt to Phineus Gage yourself with a pestle. [PG invented the lobotomy by...
Hoot Mon!! Thanks for the most obscure bit of entertaining trivia I've seen in ages. Photos of his skull will appear if one Googles <Phineas Gage>. I'll...
Speaking of big booms: Airing next Tuesday on NOVA: "Kaboom!" http://www.pbs.org/nova/kaboom Broadcast: June 6, 2006 (Repeat) (NOVA airs Tuesdays on PBS at 8...
Geez, Chris, If they were trying to make a remote detonator with the cell phone and that Velleman relay card, they'd have to be total idiots. One wrong number...