Posted on 04/10/2014 2:13:30 PM PDT by Rusty0604
I remember ALL those “weapons” from my school years. If you got caught, you GOT AN EXTRA STUDY HALL.
How are kids supposed to get interested in science? They get intersted with stuff that blows up, catches on fire, makes loud noises, or flies.
If that! Most of the time the teacher would just take it, throw it in the drawer with all the other contraband, and keep teaching the class.
Well, when I was a school boy we used to flick spit-balls across the classroom so I guess our finger is a gun and we could go to jail if it happened today.
Exactly. According to another article, it was
an electromagnetic coil gun, which freshman Asa Ferguson submitted and was later confiscated.“It has [applications] in roller coasters and spaceships. It’s been theorized to be able to launch spaceships in space for cheaper,” Ferguson said. “I think that if I had said it was an electromagnetic propulsion system it would not have been taken out.”
Can you believe these morons are teaching your kids? Vote out that Board of Education and get the teachers’ union out of the school.
My kid made a potato howitzer powered by compressed air. It shot a potato through a 3/4” sheet of plywood. He took it to school and shot it over 2 football fields with 5 degrees of elevation. He also calculated the expected velocity and trajectory.
The funny part was, at the exposition day, he had a video my wife shot of him blasting thru a piece of plywood in our driveway. It was a great video, as my wife had never used a video camera—it looked like the Blair Witch Project. There were leaves swirling around; the prep of the cannon and the air compressor charge... finally the shot. The Dads couldn’t take their eyes off the video.
Well, we don’t need kids to learn things that they may use to invent things anymore./sarc
If you posted that video online and the wrong person saw it you would probably be charged with some crime.
Well, that will never happen. It was at least 10 years ago, we used the schools super-8 camera, and returned it... I never got a copy of the video.
My kid made a trebuchet model in gifted class, works too. Guess that is too scawy for these nerds.
you probably get arrested for shooting a folking rubber band these days
Is it the one with the Tupperware lid that blocks the barrel to fill the compression chamber?
I built one of those with several students.
Then I probably shouldn't tell you what I am going to do in several weeks with the Fresnel lens off a projection TV.
Starting in 7th grade I took Metal Shop, every semester we would fill balloons with acetylene and oxygen and use toilet paper for a fuse and the Teacher and Students would explode a couple in the school outside the shop building. It was done as a Learning exercise so as to demonstrate the extreme importance of NEVER leaving your torch on.
Amazing what a wussified nation we have become
It wasn’t built from anyone else’s plan.
It was a science project, more than a toy. The kids had built their own “toy” versions which were portable and fueled by something volatile, like CVS underarm spray deoderant.
The project had twin tanks made of 4” schedule 80 PVC, with parallel feeds into the barrel. Pressure build up was contained by a pair of lawn sprinkler solenoids, so there was full pressure all the way down the 8 foot barrel.
Fire the school board and the entire administration.
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