Student Making Home-Brewed Rocket Fuel On Stovetop Causes Chaos In Dorm

https://www.iflscience.com ^ | 24 FEBRUARY 2022 | Jack Dunhill

[Red Badger]

Big Bang Theory comes to life..........................

[Larry Lucido]

I don’t see what could go wrong.

[Steely Tom]

Another rocket scientist heard from.

[EEGator]

I have more of a Real Genius vibe to it...

[ClearCase_guy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNMp4d9zCUc

Phil Hartman selling Rocket Fuel Malt Liquor. Classic bit.

[Red Badger]

This ain’t Rocket Surgery!..................

[Larry Lucido]

[Flick Lives]

It was revealed that a student had decided to try his hand at creating DIY rocket fuel on the stovetop.

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Move over Stovetop Stuffing!

[babygene]

With potassium nitrate and sugar, you should always use a double boiler...

[Kriggerel]

Yeah, surrrrrrre he was cooking “rocket fuel”, unless “rocket fuel” is a kind of meth that’s currently popular in Utah... :P

[Red Badger]

A friend of mine in the Marines tried to make his own ‘Flash Powder’.

He smoked Lucky Strikes.

He had a sample in a dish in front of him.

Ash fell into the dish, burned his face and arms.

He almost got court martialed..................

[Larry Lucido]

[taxpayerfatigue]

Was this done by little Achmed the clockmaker who was the genius that Obama wanted to receive an award?

[V_TWIN]

[Col Frank Slade]

Must be a chemistry major ….

[Steely Tom]

Always add the unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine to the fuming nitric acid, never the other way around!

[bhl]

I made sugar and potassium nitrate smoke bombs on a stovetop. Also a bad idea. (Turns out, cooking was an unnecessary step, but that was before the days of a helpful internet and we had to rely on passed around copies of the Anarchists Cookbook.)

[PGR88]

Did he have a rocket he intended to fuel?

[Kriggerel]

Actually, when I was in undergrad, there was a Chem PhD. student at UWaterloo, who was busted for running a little side-business cooking meth in a rented unit in a strip mall a few blocks off campus. He ended up beating the charges because the Kitchener-Waterloo Police had destroyed all his chemicals, and his lawyer was able to point out to the judge that as a trained chemist, his client could quite easily demonstrate that the amount of chemicals he’d had on hand, and the amount of meth he could have theoretically produced was far less than the ‘cop-math’ figures that the court had been provided with by the police, and hence his client could not properly defend himself, as the evidence had been destroyed. The judge agreed and threw the case out. :P

[gundog]