My child is making a bomb for the Science Fair.

[Bunny]

Apparently. She came home from school today and told me she needs a potato, two wires, two nails, and a clock.

What would be your first thought? Me? I'm thinking bomb. :crazy:
But I'm not real scientifically-minded. She said something about the potato making the clock run, or something. Hmmm...

[benburch]

1. Potato battery, most likely...

And you need a really LOW powered digital clock to make it work.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

14. And two nails made of different metals IIRC. (nt)

[flyingfysh]

2. a potato is a standard school way to make a battery

Just insert 2 different kinds of metal, connect wires to them, and you have a battery.

[Worst Username Ever]

3. LOL! Yep, its a clock. You can do something similar with a lemon. n/t

[Rabrrrrrr]

4. No, she's using the potato as a battery to run the clock

very old school science fair stuff.

[LoZoccolo]

5. The Two-Potato Clock!

I had one of these when I was little! Yeah, it's legit, and pretty neat until the potatoes start to rot.

[LoZoccolo]

9. Here's one!

http://sargentwelch.com/product.asp_Q_pn_E_WLS19737_EA_A_Two+Potato+Clock_E_

[Deja Q]

20. $19 for a food powered clock? I'd rather spend $19 on food.

It isn't even stylish! :puke:

[Dookus]

6. uh oh

she's making a SPUD missile!

hyuck hyuck

[Parche]

12. spud missile

Eye see you should be mashed for that comment



Maybe we should call Tom Ruffles has Ridges at the Fatherland Security dept

[bleedingheart]

22. Tom may send the Freedom Fries to the Rescue!

[Randi_Listener]

7. You just need.....

....an anode and a cathode to run the clock.

[Pithlet]

8. Yep. We did that in school.

You can also use lemons.

On edit: We didn't make bombs. We made them into batteries which would light up a small bulb. And it really did work.

[DrWeird]

10. A bomb is an actual scientific tool.

It does not, hopefully, explode. Real quote: "Hey Bob, have you seen the hydrogen bomb? Yeah, it's down in the basement."

Anyway, in this case she's just making a battery.

[PBX9501]

19. In my former career

I met many people who had lots of letters following their name. Their job was to come up with more efficient ways to make things go boom..

[juliagoolia]

11. My kid put one of those together last year

We had to get a meter to figure out how many potatos we needed to get the LED to light up though..

Iguess if you are using a clock and it doesnt work you can always hook up more potatoes


Look up potato battery on google.

[Unstuck In Time]

15. "... hook up more potatoes..."

Isn't that Bush's plan for energy independence? :7

[Bronco69]

13. I'm not taking any chances!

I'm getting on the horn to the office of homely security, they really need to know about this! See! I knew it wouldn't be long before the libruls starting teaching our kids about bomb making!

P.S. Tell her good luck on the clock. :-)

[jukes]

16. don't listen to them

it's a bomb. get her into treatment immediately. spend the rest of your days wondering where you went wrong.

and, for cries ache, keep her away from scissors!

[CanuckAmok]

17. look at it this way:

If she does make a bomb, Bush will never be able to track her down.

[PBX9501]

18. I remember potato guns...

My kid made one. Managed not to blow himself up or cause any property damage. Still in the garage.

[UrbScotty]

21. Which bomb? The F-bomb or the S-bomb?

If you know what I mean?