September 24th

Drop That Sound said:

Here's another fun one:

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That's cool!

I want to dig out my big potato cannon, and wrap it with a long tube like that. Instead of making a popping noise into a blast chamber, it ignites the cannon instead. There would be the delayed reaction, but it would still be pretty cool.

I have clear 2" PVC and polycarbonate pipe.. Could make a whole new spud gun\plasma popper hybrid, that is mostly transparent (except for clear fittings, I'm not shelling out for those)...

DoubleAtotheRON said:

Took about 30 seconds, but it worked. Not for long tho.... and microwaved grapes stink!

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Did you put the glass on and capture the plasma at the top? It been a long time but I remember having to leave a small air gap under the glass, for the best result. I used 3 plastic bottle caps as risers, if I remember right.

Or maybe that was when I was microwaving a lit candle.. lol

Drop That Sound said:

I want to dig out my big potato cannon, and wrap it with a long tube like that. Instead of making a popping noise into a blast chamber, it ignites the cannon instead. There would be the delayed reaction, but it would still be pretty cool.

I have clear 2" PVC and polycarbonate pipe.. Could make a whole new spud gun\plasma popper hybrid, that is mostly transparent (except for clear fittings, I'm not shelling out for those)...

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I've made one before, fun stuff!.. we used either hair spray, or starting fluid spray as a fuel, and a BBQ ignition switch.. Gotta admit i was a bit nervous on the first few runs.

Drop That Sound said:

Did you put the glass on and capture the plasma at the top? It been a long time but I remember having to leave a small air gap under the glass, for the best result. I used 3 plastic bottle caps as risers, if I remember right.

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Yes... I used a 16 oz glass. I left the "roller tray thingy as a riser... wonder what the science is behind that? Why grapes?.. would an apple work?

...and after 30 seconds, that glass got hot AF!

I took a microwave out to the backyard once.. Had a lot of fun, microwaving all kinds of stuff

Drop That Sound said:

Ya the ones that started running their mouths about how it it was a hoax. Even some of the families say it was foul play.

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Do you actually have a link regarding this? I searched but found nothing…… weird.

Budley Doright said:

Do you actually have a link regarding this? I searched but found nothing…… weird.

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There is no way to link to the imagination of a dimwit.

Budley Doright said:

Do you actually have a link regarding this? I searched but found nothing…… weird.

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During the Apollo 1 simulation, just before he died, the communications with the Command Module completely broke down, and Grissom said in exasperation, “How are we going to get to the moon if we can’t talk between two buildings?”

You can ask Gus Grissom's son all about it..

Thomas Baron worked with Apollo 1, until he started blowing the whistle, saying in public we could never make it to the moon, etc. His is whole family was smashed in a train accident or something a week later..

The January 27, 1967, Apollo I mission was a simulated launch in preparation for an actual lunar flight.


NASA concluded the Apollo I deaths of Grissom, as well as astronauts Edward H. White and Roger Chafee, were the result of an explosive fire that enveloped the pure oxygen atmosphere of the space capsule. NASA investigators could not identify what caused the spark, but wrote the catastrophe off as an accident.


“My father’s death was no accident, he was murdered,” Grissom, a commercial pilot, told STAR.


Grissom said he recently was granted access to the charred capsule and discovered a “fabricated” metal plate located behind a control panel switch. The switch controlled the capsules’ electrical power source from an outside source to the ship’s batteries. Grissom argues that the placement of the metal plate was an act of sabotage. When the one of the astronauts toggled the switch to transfer power to the ship’s batteries, a spark was created igniting a fireball.


Clark Mac Donald, a McDonnell-Douglas engineer hired by NASA to investigate the fire, offered corroborating evidence. Breaking more than three decades of silence, Mac Donald alleges that he determined an electrical short caused by the change over to battery power had caused the fire.


He says that NASA destroyed his report and interview tapes in an effort to stem public criticism of the space program.


“I have agonized for 31 years about revealing the truth but I didn’t want to hurt NASA’s image or cause trouble,” Mac Donald told the paper. “But I can’t let one more day go by without the truth being known.”

Drop That Sound said:

Thomas Baron worked with Apollo 1, until he started blowing the whistle, saying in public we could never make it to the moon, etc. His is whole family was smashed in a train accident or something a week later..

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Guy that dies, massive 500 page report destroyed, NASA go's on lying to the public, end of story...

NASA whistleblower death debunked, even though his report doesn't exist anymore to debunk it with. Just opinions.

Drop That Sound said:

NASA whistleblower death debunked, even though his report doesn't exist anymore to debunk it with. Just opinions.

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Somewhat like your theory (“opinion”) I would gather. But both were interesting reads, thanks.

Also I don’t see a cover up of the actual moon landing in any of what was in any of the articles. What I see is a possible negligent safety program which is criminal.

Budley Doright said:

Also I don’t see a cover up of the actual moon landing in any of what was in any of the articles. What I see is a possible negligent safety program which is criminal.

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A similar collision of culture with fact underlay the decision to launch Challenger despite weather conditions being outside previously specified limits set by known vulnerability of the part that failed.

Junior engineers expressed their fears; their seniors did not convey or acknowledge them. Go Fever is the concise term.

cannabineer said:

A similar collision of culture with fact underlay the decision to launch Challenger despite weather conditions being outside previously specified limits set by known vulnerability of the part that failed.

Junior engineers expressed their fears; their seniors did not convey or acknowledge them. Go Fever is the concise term.

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They defiantly don't have that this time round... I think the original launch date was like Sept 1st? Now delayed till no sooner than the 27th, with a back up date for Oct 2nd.