Wait... that's not so much funny as it is SAD
From SMBC:
Y'know, you have to wonder how the next generation of scientists is going to be impacted by the fact that modern science kits suck. I don't think you can still get anything like the boss electronics kit I had as a kid, with all its little moving parts and bits that required solder, nor the aeronautics kit I had where the final project was a model rocket I never got around to building. And the kits I had in the late '70s and early '80s had nothing on some of the used up kits I'd find bits and pieces of in my grandmother's attic in Western Maryland. And then you see ads for even earlier science kits--ones containing caustic chemicals and mild radioactives.
Those had to be the days, y'know?
Those had to be the days, y'know?
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I don't think its mesothelioma-causing characteristics were known at the time.
I think I had that same kit - came with a small can of helium, too, right? And you made a hot air balloon with a candle?
Only I made the model rocket. I, uh, well let's just say that I went on to making much more sophisticated ones, and when that one started looking expendible, well, let's say that a plug of home-made black powder in the nose cone can be set off if you use a first stage rocket, the kind that lights the second rocket in a multi-stage beauty.
The only difference between a chemist and a pyromanic in the larval stages is...well, there isn't much difference, is there?
Yeah, that kit was awesome. Heh. In the unlikely event I spawn, John, I may be taking you up on that offer....
We didn't need no kits! Was it lye and tin foil that generated hydrogen? Collect it in a balloon, and you get more bang for the buck than with helium.
We were EVIL!