Name an experiment you've had, few others have had.

[ohiosmith]

[DS1]

1. Does a hobby rocket motor ignite with an open flame?

Answer - No. You have to be close enough to hold the still igniting match to the fuel, and I've had the burn scars to prove it ;-)

[txaslftist]

2. Can you ignite spilled deisel fuel with a cigarette?

You'll have to find out yourself.

[Donkeyboy75]

3. Photopatterning

fibroblasts to self-assembled monolayers of alkanethiolates on gold. :shrug:

[htuttle]

4. Is Gasoline an appropriate fuel for a Polish Cannon

Short answer: No.

Can one make Napalm out of easily acquired ingredients?
Short answer: Yes, but don't.

And this beaut from back when I was about 11 years old:

"Can one make ramjet engines out of several coffee cans?"
Short answer: No. No you can't.

[Z_I_Peevey]

5. Can a six-year-old build a teeter-totter

using rusty, sharp metal spikes and a length of 1 x 6 lumber?

No.

[txaslftist]

6. Will a dull, rusty nail penetrate 1/8" thick sandal leather?

sadly, yes.

[sundog]

7. What happens when you leave a glass of milk in the garage for 2 weeks?

meh... I was 10, ok?

Oh, maggots if you're interested.

[XNASA]

8. Is it possible to scale a water tower.......

..after drinking 15 Newcastle Brown Ales?

For the record...it is not.

[MISSDem]

9. If you tie something around your neck to make a cape

and jump off of the roof of the garage can you fly like Superman? No.

[txaslftist]

10. Will a butter knife cut human flesh?

Surprisingly, yes.

[jswordy]

11. If you light a gas can spout and squeze it, will it make a flame-thrower?

Yes.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

12. Can leaving a pot of boiling oil on the kitchen stove, while going out

to pick-up one's lover, and being gone only for 15 minutes, cause a fire that burns down a kitchen?

[jswordy]

15. And the ANSWER IS????

ROFLMAO! (Though it prolly wasn't funny then, huh???)

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

21. Nope, not at the time. Thank goodness my alarm system is tied into

the fire department, and they were there just as I picked up the phone. The smoke permeated the house, and my poor kitties were given oxygen by the volunteer fire department.

My kids and soon to be ex-husband were visiting overnight at his girlfriends house. That was one of the toughest phone calls I have ever had to make.

I lived without a kitchen with two kids, and my ex-husband for about 4 months. Luckily it was winter and I used my deck as a freezer, cooked with an electric frypan and needless to say, a brand new microwave.

[jswordy]

Thanks. It might as well HAVE burned down, tho, right? n/t

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

27. Very glad it didn't! I was displaced as a teen and it was awful living

in a motel until the apartment was rebuilt.

[StopTheMorans]

13. combine small pieces of tin foil and hydrochloric acid in a 2 liter soda

bottle, put the cap on quickly, and watch it grow to about 3 times its regular size before it blows up and makes a tremendously loud "boom" (I promise, it wasn't me) :evilgrin:

[DS1]

22. Will you get picked up and taken for questioning for making an MRE bomb

at 2 in the morning, and detonating it between two barracks? Yes.

Are Police computer systems, while left unattended, INCREDIBLY unsecure? Yes.

Is a Cop's password typically his badge number? Just about all the damn time.

Where did DS1 go with this? Wouldn't you like to know? :D

[Spider Jerusalem]

14. If you lash Barbie to a bottle rocket with twine...

will she survive re-entry? (Astronaut Barbie was a failure, I'm sad to say.)

[Zero Gravitas]

16. Homemade Oxy-Acetlyne torch

it worked for a minute or two until the huge hyperdermic needle stolen from the Biology lab melted :)

[Misunderestimator]

17. Cartwheeling near an electric fence, makes it very difficult to get up off

your ass if you get too close and snag your leg over the wire... did that once when I was 12... yikes that was painful.

[StopTheMorans]

18. ouch!

:wow:

[GumboYaYa]

19. Can you shoot a cowboy hat off my head with a BB Gun?

We were making a film on frontier life for my high school humanites class and wanted it to be as realistic as possible. Purely in the pursuit of deeper learning, I noted that pioneers usually drank whisky and not beer or other wussy liquors. In the interest of realism, I proceeded to obtain a bottle of Jack Daniels for our production, which of course had to always be hidden from view of the camera as we were high school students at the time. Other friends involved in the production provided the other unnecessarys like coon skin caps, cowboy hats, and other props. After filming our saga and the resulting hilarities, all agreed that we really only needed the bottle of whisky to make the film entertaining.

As we proceeded to drink just like the pioneers, our film antics became less and less pioneerily and more and more just the drunken rantings of teenage boys, ending with me challenging my best friend: "I bet you can't shoot this cowboy hat off my head with that BB Gun?"

I was right. He took the challenge, pumped the gun and shot straight at my head. The hat stayed in place, but the BB managed to lodge itself in my scalp. Anyone who has had an injury to the scalp knows it produces copious amounts of blood. I was covered in blood. It looked as if my head had been severed from my body. My friend, who was just as drunk as I, thought I was dying and started crying and telling me to shoot him too. Remember, I'm the one with the BB in my head. Of course I was too drunk and dazed at the time to honor his request, or else two of us would have had BBs lodged in our scalps that day.

After about a half hour of wiping blood off my face the bleeding stopped and I was left with a matt of blood soaked hair and, of course, still knee-knocking drunk. I'll never forget the challenge of slipping past my parents that night. I think they knew something was seriously wrong with me, but based on past performance, simply did not want to let themseleves get sucked into my sick world.

The BB stayed in my head for years. I could move it around my scalp and would do just that every time my mother lectured me on something. After a few years of watching me move that BB around and ignore her, she took me to the doctor and made him cut it out of my scalp.

[MadHound]

25. Speaking of shooting BB guns at each other

A buddy and I were quite drunk, tequila drunk. He was standing across the living room, with a cigarette dangling off of his lip. I was holding the BB pistol, and decided that I could shoot the cherry off the tip of his cig. Leveled up the pistol, pulled the trigger, and shot not only the cherry off, but due to his suprise, the whole cigarette out of his mouth. One of a number of great Zen shots I've had in my life.

Another experiment, can you shoot various fireworks off inside a trailer without catching it on fire? Yes, you can, but only if you have a good water supply handy.

Also learned how to make plastic explosive in my high school honors chemistry class. I got lucky in that my teacher was the mad professor type who thought nothing of teaching us these kinds of things. I think secretly he was into the big bang end of chemistry himself.

[TyeDye75]

20. An enema

[bleedingheart]

23. inserting tweezers into an electric wall outlet.

my mom was running the mixer in the kitchen and I was in the bedroom wondering what would happen if I did that....

lucky for me electricity takes the path of least resistance and it blew the fuse turned the tweezers black and they were very very hot...and my mom's mixer stopped working...so she replaced the fuse and blamed the mixer...

[Deja Q]

24. Do Peeps count?

:shrug:

[ohiosmith]

26. Peeps get extra points.