Smoke Detectors and a Radioactive Boyscout

[Gundampilotspaz]

http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=340

This is a bit scary!

[amy]

smart kid D:

i wonder why he wanted to make it so much? I mean what do you DO with uranium.

[Juxtapose]

i wonder why he wanted to make it so much? I mean what do you DO with uranium.

.....sell it on ebay?

[amy]

doesn't it decay before you could do that?

anyway I think it would be so cool to make ununoctium.

but uranium and all that, ehh, you're like curie wannabe.

[Tanni Foemangler]

DAMN

all that work and he makes a nuclear core out of foil and duct tape?

i wonder where the hell he was conducting his work if he got busted for loitering

[David]

smart kid D:

i wonder why he wanted to make it so much? I mean what do you DO with uranium.

For $10 he bought the clock, and upgraded his neutron gun.

Every man wants a gun.

If I had the materials I'd make a magnetic Gauss Rifle.

[No Sad Endings]

...that is wild, man...

but I'm wondering too, as to what exactly he was trying to accomplish...

[Siendra]

Old. I read about it in Readers Digest many years ago.

I was actually doing a science fair project on alternative forms of energy that could be created in the home at the time. My parent's got piss scared i was building something nuclear. They were ever so happy to find out it was just a 0.8 horse power steam engine.

[Baltar]

I remember that story on the news actually when I was 7. It has inspiered me since I guess, since I am an eagle scout now myself. lol

[JesusTheNinja]

Isn't the boy scout code against lying? This kid was lying to smoke detector companies, an electronics firm, and the police.

Aside from that, I too must wonder what he intended to do with his nuclear device.

[Baltar]

obviously destroy his chances of having kids, normal ones anyways.

funny story about that though, the military in the 50's told my grandpa he could never have children because of the radioactive material and chemical waste he hauled for them. He gave birth to my mom a few years later, his only biological kin (only attempt), and shes a picture of health.

[David]

Isn't the boy scout code against lying? This kid was lying to smoke detector companies, an electronics firm, and the police.

After you get your second class badge, the scout code is almost never mentioned again D:

And once you're second class, people do anything for a merit badge

[Baltar]

After you get your second class badge, the scout code is almost never mentioned again D:

And once you're second class, people do anything for a merit badge

Only assholes pine for merit badges.

[Venom112]

Only assholes pine for merit badges.

No, I believe they are made of some sort of tough cloth and plastic, possibly a sort of embroidery.

*badum ksh*

[Poophy]

I wont my own reactor!

[Ceraziefish]

obviously destroy his chances of having kids, normal ones anyways.

funny story about that though, the military in the 50's told my grandpa he could never have children because of the radioactive material and chemical waste he hauled for them. He gave birth to my mom a few years later, his only biological kin (only attempt), and shes a picture of health.

Well something bad happened if he gave birth to your mom. :tongue:

[Bittersweet Endings Only]

I'd be shit-scared if he'd've built a mass driver, I'll tell you what.

[Poophy]

If this sight wasn’t being monitored by the government I might post something about buiding my own reactor, but I wont…

[No Sad Endings]

Well something bad happened if he gave birth to your mom.

I knew something sounded fishy about that story...