Funny firework story

way back about 20 years ago, when I was about 15 , my best friend and me made a mortar launcher out of a piece of hefty metal drainpipe to fire off rockets in whatever direction we wanted, we had a blast

We just loaded a big rocket into it and lit the fuse. With that my dad came out of the house and demanded if it was us letting off the fireworks. We looked at each other then looked back at my dad and both said NO! seconds later the rocket shot vertically out of the drainpipe, soared upwards and burst into a splash of red stars.

We looked at each other again and thought OH S**T !!

He only said two words, pointed at me and said "IN" and pointed at my friend and said "HOME" . I was grounded for a week for that. We are still best friends and still laugh about that night.
Talk about being busted fair and square ;D

Jase

Ooooowned! ;D

lol i would have pissed myself laughing... i LOVE ironic/awkward moments like that. u know ur busted but its still halarious

Sounds like something my dad would have done! Actually... sounds EXACTLY like how my dad would have reacted!

Regardless, 20 years later, it is something you will never forget, and no matter how little the reaction was, it IS a lesson learned for life! ;D

Fathers... you can't stand them, but you still love them to death!

Thank you for sharing;
DDL

You know, my Chemistry teacher (~70) got a Carbide Cannon when he was a kid. Its a box filled full of acetylene, with a flash hole for a match, and a barrel for anything you could get to fit.

He set it up on a picnic table and aimed it at two cardboard boxes, inside of each other. He got the cannon all ready with a marble for ammo and fired it at the boxes, went up to em and was like OMG! It went through the first one! OMG! and the second! OMG!!! And the wall of the garage! And driver/passenger windows of the car... ;D ;D ;D ;D

It mysteriously disappeared from his room the next morning.


At the beginning of the year, he takes a 2gallon jug with a really small nozzle on it and the bottom cut out... He fills it full of pure hydrogen, no oxygen, and lights the end of the nozzle. Then he gives it to a student to hold. And turns off the lights... and about 2 minutes later, it goes BOOM! and all the girls in the class (20 girls, exactly, in a class of 24 students... I felt like the lone male) screamed at the top of their lungs as a fireball shot out of the bottom of the jug... Oh, what an introduction to chemistry!

5 to 1 ratio (5 girls to a guy)... hmm... sign me up! ;D

Oh, by the way... the explosion story was awesome too...

Just messing;
DDL

thats the way chemistry should be introduced Xenodius.... not by....balancing chemical equations ... that was my introduction. least physics was funny. our teacher handed out to the double class (2 classes on same time slot so we joined up and both teachers taught) of about 40 students, a piece of standard printer paper with "how big is this piece of paper". we were given lots of equipment (micrometers rulers and such) and told to answer on the paper..... we were all trying to be REALLY accurate...... the answer was of course "A4"....

i ran across a frozen pond and it cracked and i fell ;D

i fell through a frozen creek once to a little over my knees time i got home my pants were frozen solid lol

I had a professor in college who used to present a chemistry lecture (once per semester) dedicated to exothermic reactions - violent ones. He's begin by showing up from the back of the lecture hall, running down the steps shooting blanks out of a pair of colt revolvers. Now that he had our attention, he demonstrated everything from a 4 foot diameter weather balloon filled with hydrogen and oxygen (which when detonated sounded rather loud inside a lecture hall) to red phosphorous & potassium perchlorate. He always finished with the nitrogen tri-iodide demonstration, setting off a coffee filter full with a feather on a long pole.

For some strange reason, on the night of his explosives lecture, his student count swelled from 50 to several hundred.

my ice cube exploded on me! ;D no it really did, and it shot water all over me! ;D

my chem class beginning of this year started the same way.
teacher had a can with a removable lid, small top hole, slightly bigger bottom hole, pumped hydrogen into it, lit the top, 1 min later BOOM, lid blows off.
;D ;D ;D there is actually still a burn on the roof from the fireball it made.
my physics teacher (who owns many HeNe's as well as a 60W argon) once made a bomb, size of a potato, bit bigger, blew a 2 metre crater in the oval. groundsmen were NOT happy !!!

my chemistry teacher had a soft spot for hydrogen balloons. sadly, he never lit off any in my class. i also have a soft spot for hydrogen balloons, only i use hydrogen and oxygen that i collect form electrolysis. soooo much fun!!!!!!! . only my lead acid battery i use to power the cell is dead, and the charger is shot.

why exactly do you need a lead acid battery? just use about six D batteries and that will get it goin real nice

mw1111 said:

why exactly do you need a lead acid battery? just use about six D batteries and that will get it goin real nice

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I DONT THINK YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT I HAVE RUNNING. it needs the lead acid battery becauce it pulls bewteen 60 and 90 amps. i checked it with a large ammeter. 6 D's wont even touch it. even my truck struggles to power it. also, i melted the poor jumper cables i used so i wired it up with 2 gauge wire. hears a picture of it.

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