[Morgana]

Beavis or Butthead?

[Resolute Conservative]

Yeah, weed is harmless...

[Gamecock]

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Seriously, I did a lot of dumb things at that age, some might have gotten me killed. Sad story.

[Blood of Tyrants]

There is a reason it is called rocket SCIENCE. Morons shouldn’t be messing with them.

[Farmer Dean]

Stupidity is rapidly becoming the national pastime.

[G Larry]

Fortunately, my related attempts were limited to a CO2 cartridge.

[PGR88]

I don’t know details, but when we were kids, we were constantly experimenting (acting stupidly?) with things that shot projectiles, chemicals, and motors.

[from occupied ga]

sadly stupidity occasionally has consequences. Too bad Bernie and Hillary voters don’t blow themselves up. They’re certainly stupid enough.

[wattsgnu]

Sad story.
That’s how JPL got started. (Yes. The movie, The Martian had it correct.) “Back in the 1930s, a group of graduate students known as “the rocket boys” set off a small explosion in their dormitory building during a fueled rocket test, according to NASA’s history archive.”

I have the same drive as they do: to experiment. I planned on being an astronaut. I’m a power supply design engineer instead. I’ll do the rocket thing in retirement.

[navet97]

Did he get the rocket from Acme? Sounds like a Wile E. Coyote stunt!

[Company Man]

(Insert Stupid Games / Stupid Prizes meme here.)

[Opinionated Blowhard]

[JoeProBono]

[Mrs. Don-o]

I feel sorry for the kids and their parents. Honestly, they were doing what normal boys do. Some make a mistake and get killed.

I am saddened by the lack of sympathy in some of the remarks posted here.

[Timpanagos1]

“Authorities say the experiment wasn’t sanctioned by the elementary school.”

This is why American students are falling behind the rest of the industrialized world in math and science. Had those kids, when they were in elementary school been offered a class in Jet Propulsion much like the classes taught at Cal Tech, this disaster would not have occurred.

[Zack Attack]

“We are professionally trained stuntmen. Do not try to duplicate these scenes at home”

-— Wile E Coyote

[Larry Lucido]

I’m shocked.

[W.]

I did model rockets when I was a kid, and the engines came 3 to a blue tube and cost 3/75¢. [They arrived via the US Mail!] Now the damn things are 3/$10+! Vern Estes would not approve...

[2001convSVT]

“18-year-old Bernard Moon, the AP reports. His 17-year-old friend.”
“Authorities say the experiment wasn’t sanctioned by the elementary school.”

A 18 and 17 year old in Elementary school? Shouldn’t they have been in High School by that age? Just saying.

[RC one]

hey everybody, watch this!