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To: Vermont Lt

I used to make hydrogen balloons I used aluminum and lye and h2O, lit the tail and let them go.

Guess what, uncontrolled drone like things with an explo5ive payload.

when I did that 60 years ago no one would have considered them anything at all, but today who knows how I might get jacked up.

I wont even talk about my The Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab


47 posted on 07/06/2026 6:57:05 PM PDT by algore ( )
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I wont even talk about my The Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab

What a GLORIOUS childhood you must have had! :-)

48 posted on 07/06/2026 7:13:14 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain (Laz's minion)
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To: algore

“I wont even talk about my The Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab”

That was before my time and I am almost 80.


51 posted on 07/06/2026 7:18:47 PM PDT by TexasGator (n.11-1i11'./1)
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“The Gilbert catalog copy included the reassurance that “All radioactive materials included with the Atomic Energy Lab have been certified as completely safe by Oak-Ridge Laboratories, part of the Atomic Energy Commission.”[6]

The set originally sold for $49.50[3] (equivalent to $660 in 2025[7]) and contained the following:[3][8][9]”

Somehow Santa Clause failed to drop off one of those to me.


56 posted on 07/07/2026 2:35:47 AM PDT by Paladin2
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