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Previously on "What's your 12 year-old buying on eBay?"

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  • GJABS
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    Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post
    You can try it yourself:

    https://www.instructables.com/id/Bui...usion-Reactor/

    But with all these things, you put more energy in than you get out, so it's not really that useful.
    Pseudo-science at its finest. You need millions of degrees to get the deuterium nucleus to fuse with another.

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  • Mordac
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    Originally posted by Old Greg View Post
    In the mid '80s we managed to fire a small plastic projectile about 60 feet in the air using a plastic pipe. The people from the TA place across the road were politely firm about it.
    I'm not surprised they were peeved, you had more serious hardware than they did...

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  • Old Greg
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    Originally posted by TestMangler View Post
    it's not like the good old days where you could buy Sodium Chlorate at the local hardware shop, a bag of sugar, find some copper pipe in your dad's shed and blow up a railway bridge (like I did when I was 15). Problem being, it kinda gets you noticed
    In the mid '80s we managed to fire a small plastic projectile about 60 feet in the air using a plastic pipe. The people from the TA place across the road were politely firm about it.

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  • DoctorStrangelove
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    Kid next door bought 3 Glocks, a Barrett 50 cal, and a Sherman Tank.

    The Sherman was a misdescription so he send the Tommy Cooker back for a refund.

    Should I be worried?

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  • TestMangler
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    it's not like the good old days where you could buy Sodium Chlorate at the local hardware shop, a bag of sugar, find some copper pipe in your dad's shed and blow up a railway bridge (like I did when I was 15). Problem being, it kinda gets you noticed

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  • NotAllThere
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    Originally posted by BlasterBates View Post
    That's amazing the sun requires a temperature of millions of degrees for nuclear fusion and here it is at room temperature.
    Yeah, but this thing requires 40KV. The sun just needs gravity.

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  • BlasterBates
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    That's amazing the sun requires a temperature of millions of degrees for nuclear fusion and here it is at room temperature.

    A friend of mine's 13 year old son built a time machine, now just rusting in the cellar.

    Great stuff

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  • NotAllThere
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    You can try it yourself:

    https://www.instructables.com/id/Bui...usion-Reactor/

    But with all these things, you put more energy in than you get out, so it's not really that useful.

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  • Mordac
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    Originally posted by Paddy View Post
    When I was 12 I got no mention at all for discovering a method of captivating methane gas by farting in the bath and collecting the bubbles.
    And it's still your greatest achievement...

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  • Paddy
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    Originally posted by minestrone View Post
    He got like 300 words in the guardian for a nuclear reaction.

    Ahmed Mohamed got 20 columns for making some kind of digital clock.
    When I was 12 I got no mention at all for discovering a method of captivating methane gas by farting in the bath and collecting the bubbles.

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  • Zigenare
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    Originally posted by minestrone View Post
    He got like 300 words in the guardian for a nuclear reaction.

    Ahmed Mohamed got 20 columns for making some kind of digital clock.
    Ahmed could join Cheshire Constabulary, Jackson can't!

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  • minestrone
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    He got like 300 words in the guardian for a nuclear reaction.

    Ahmed Mohamed got 20 columns for making some kind of digital clock.

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  • vetran
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    WML!

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  • Mordac
    started a topic What's your 12 year-old buying on eBay?

    What's your 12 year-old buying on eBay?

    Boy, 12, said to have created nuclear reaction in playroom lab | Environment | The Guardian

    Fookinell...

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