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If anyone knows a nuclear reactor that'll let me grab a piña colada and like, an inflatable pool raft I can lie down on, and hang out in the pool to mess with tourists and students, I'll do that poo poo for free, man.
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# ? Feb 21, 2016 07:10 |
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Kilo147 posted:If anyone knows a nuclear reactor that'll let me grab a piña colada and like, an inflatable pool raft I can lie down on, and hang out in the pool to mess with tourists and students, I'll do that poo poo for free, man. I'm sure if you donated enough to the stupid WSU cougs you could.
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# ? Feb 21, 2016 07:22 |
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Kilo147 posted:If anyone knows a nuclear reactor that'll let me grab a piña colada and like, an inflatable pool raft I can lie down on, and hang out in the pool to mess with tourists and students, I'll do that poo poo for free, man. Just get some blue LEDs and make a mockup. Nobody's gonna be able to tell the difference.
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# ? Feb 21, 2016 07:33 |
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Chlorine pentafluoridequote:Some of the earliest research on the preparation was classified.[3][4] It was first prepared by fluorination of chlorine trifluoride at high temperatures and high pressures: quote:
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# ? Feb 25, 2016 06:23 |
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GWBBQ posted:Chlorine pentafluoride That's, uh, not a combination of words I ever expected to read. wikipedia posted:This colourless gas is an strong oxidant that was once a candidate oxidizer for rockets. Because of loving course it was.
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# ? Feb 25, 2016 09:40 |
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Look, people tried playing rocket noises to a rocket to get it to work better, I'm pretty sure the only chemicals not considered for fuel at all were the noble gasses.
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# ? Feb 25, 2016 09:57 |
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Keiya posted:Look, people tried playing rocket noises to a rocket to get it to work better, I'm pretty sure the only chemicals not considered for fuel at all were the noble gasses. got news for you friend (fiiine it's just reaction mass)
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# ? Feb 25, 2016 10:20 |
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Keiya posted:Look, people tried playing rocket noises to a rocket to get it to work better, I'm pretty sure the only chemicals not considered for fuel at all were the noble gasses. There’s xenon, but it’s technically not fuel, just propellant. e: That’ll teach me not to reload.
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# ? Feb 25, 2016 10:28 |
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Platystemon posted:There’s xenon, but it’s technically not fuel, just propellant. I bet someone's proposed a helium-fusion rocket at some point.
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# ? Feb 25, 2016 11:07 |
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Collateral Damage posted:Of course. So essentially, if the very idea of something exists, someone has considered using it as rocket fuel.
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# ? Feb 25, 2016 12:23 |
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Hijo Del Helmsley posted:So essentially, if the very idea of something exists, someone has considered using it as rocket fuel. Kind of a more explode-y rule 34
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# ? Feb 25, 2016 13:41 |
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SneakyFrog posted:Kind of a more explode-y rule 34 Being used as rocket fuel is probably the best fate for most internet fetish porn.
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# ? Feb 25, 2016 13:47 |
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Hijo Del Helmsley posted:So essentially, if the very idea of something exists, someone has considered using it as rocket fuel. In the latest Mythbusters episode, they experiment with gummy bears and dog poo as rocket propellants. Separately, not combined.
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# ? Feb 25, 2016 13:49 |
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Basically anything that can somehow be coaxed into releasing energy can theoretically be a rocket fuel, be it through oxidizing, fission or fusion. The challenge isn't finding stuff that releases lots of energy. A lot of stuff will do that in combination with an oxidizer. It's finding stuff that releases a useful amount of energy while not being too impractical and/or horrible to handle. That's why the current common fuels are liquid hydrogen/liquid oxygen and kerosene/liquid oxygen. They're decently effective, cheap, readily available and not horribly toxic. Collateral Damage has a new favorite as of 14:53 on Feb 25, 2016 |
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SynthOrange posted:Jeez I didnt notice the CSB had a new video. Its about West, Texas. I've looked at a few of these videos now and while I find the "dramatic reading" pretty eye-rolling the circumstances behind events in these videos are as heck. It's scary how much people gently caress up with this sort of stuff and the lacking regulation/guidelines/inspection.
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# ? Feb 25, 2016 15:34 |
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Some of you may remember Leonard Pickard, the Buddhist vegetarian marathon runner that was busted manufacturing LSD in a missile silo in Kansas. He wrote an article disputing that him being busted cut LSD availability in half that has a section relevant to this thread's interests. Background: a hit of LSD is 100 micrograms, so one gram of LSD is 10,000 doses.quote:Of course, location and size of clandestine labs determine in part total productivity per year. Labs frequently tend to be rural, with sites found in remote desert or mountain environments, although there are exceptions such as the 1967 and 1968 Denver labs and the St Louis, Belgian and Paris labs in the 1970s discussed earlier. This remoteness, while reducing the probability of detection by enforcement agencies, also makes access to the site more difficult and requires lengthy periods of social isolation for the manufacturer. Isolation also reduces productivity due to lack of ready access to supplies of chemicals and equipment.
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# ? Feb 25, 2016 18:47 |
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Your Computer posted:I've looked at a few of these videos now and while I find the "dramatic reading" pretty eye-rolling the circumstances behind events in these videos are as heck. It's scary how much people gently caress up with this sort of stuff and the lacking regulation/guidelines/inspection. Even worse is that I believe the CSB has no actual power to change anything, they can only make recommendations to other agencies for rule making.
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# ? Feb 25, 2016 22:51 |
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GWBBQ posted:Chlorine pentafluoride That must be the first time someone's written "it reacts violently with all elements except [...] fluorine."
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# ? Feb 26, 2016 04:27 |
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Collateral Damage posted:It's finding stuff that releases a useful amount of energy while not being too impractical and/or horrible to handle. More importantly, it's finding stuff that ignites quietly, burns smoothly in a rocket engine, provides enough thrust to reach orbit, and doesn't just detonate and promote rapid unplanned disassembly. Because that was most of Ignition!, scientists coming up with a new witches' brew, and subsequently discovering that they were going to need a new test rocket and/or test engineers.
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# ? Feb 26, 2016 05:10 |
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So I've been getting into perfume making and I am finding a lot of chemical supplies and lab equipment on Ebay. Are labs that hard up and am I going to be on some government list?
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# ? Feb 26, 2016 05:54 |
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Dante Logos posted:So I've been getting into perfume making and I am finding a lot of chemical supplies and lab equipment on Ebay. Are labs that hard up and am I going to be on some government list? You post on SA. You're already on several lists. Don't worry about it.
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# ? Feb 26, 2016 05:57 |
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Dante Logos posted:So I've been getting into perfume making and I am finding a lot of chemical supplies and lab equipment on Ebay. Are labs that hard up and am I going to be on some government list? Whenever a biotech firm in San Francisco dies or gets bought out for their IP, all their poo poo gets bought by somebody and a lot of it ends up in eBay. Finding ampules of osmium tertoxide on eBay was disconcerting.
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# ? Feb 26, 2016 06:08 |
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Hijo Del Helmsley posted:So essentially, if the very idea of something exists, someone has considered using it as rocket fuel. The brass apparently kiboshed the proposal for cyanide-based fuel.
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# ? Feb 26, 2016 06:17 |
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The Lone Badger posted:The brass apparently kiboshed the proposal for cyanide-based fuel. And yet they were fine with testing FOOF as an accelerant.
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# ? Feb 26, 2016 11:15 |
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FOOF isn't even the worst of what they tried.
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# ? Feb 26, 2016 11:31 |
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Did they every try to use dimethyl mercury as rocket fuel?
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# ? Feb 26, 2016 11:49 |
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Ignimbrite posted:Did they every try to use dimethyl mercury as rocket fuel? I'll give you ten bucks if the idea hadn't occurred to someone. Almost certainly someone German.
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# ? Feb 26, 2016 11:54 |
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Ignition! posted:All sorts of efforts were being made, during the late 50's, to increase
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# ? Feb 26, 2016 12:28 |
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Ignimbrite posted:Did they every try to use dimethyl mercury as rocket fuel? Of course. Pages 177–179 of Ignition!: quote:All sorts of efforts were being made, during the late 50's, to increase propellant densities, and I was responsible (not purposely, but from being taken seriously when I didn't expect to be) for one of the strangest. Phil Pomerantz, of BuWeps, wanted me to try dimethyl mercury, Hg(CH3)2, as a fuel. I suggested that it might be somewhat toxic and a bit dangerous to synthesize and handle, but he assured me that it was (a) very easy to put together, and (b) as harmless as mother's milk. I was dubious, but told him that I'd see what I could do.
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# ? Feb 26, 2016 12:34 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-vUeAXjQTw&t=595s
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# ? Feb 26, 2016 17:19 |
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Brake fluid+chlorine.
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# ? Feb 26, 2016 17:39 |
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So...there's some patch of Nevada desert that is unbelievably toxic out there. That makes me wonder about how much land was contaminated by blown dimethyl mercury containing dust.
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# ? Feb 26, 2016 17:43 |
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A White Guy posted:So...there's some patch of Nevada desert that is unbelievably toxic out there. That makes me wonder about how much land was contaminated by blown dimethyl mercury containing dust. They didn't end up using DMM, just plain old elemental mercury.
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A White Guy posted:So...there's some patch of Nevada desert that is unbelievably toxic out there. That makes me wonder about how much land was contaminated by blown dimethyl mercury containing dust. Also there's a patch of Nevada that looks like the surface of the moon from all of the nuclear tests they held there. No one cares about non-Vegas Nevada.
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# ? Feb 26, 2016 23:02 |
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SneakyFrog posted:Kind of a more explode-y rule 34 Candidate for new thread title right here
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# ? Feb 26, 2016 23:45 |
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Memento posted:Also there's a patch of Nevada that looks like the surface of the moon from all of the nuclear tests they held there. No one cares about non-Vegas Nevada. Unless you're into ripping sweet ore out of the ground using stuff that belongs in this thread. Well sort of since most explosives in use are safe as gently caress.
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# ? Feb 27, 2016 01:01 |
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Memento posted:Also there's a patch of Nevada that looks like the surface of the moon from all of the nuclear tests they held there. No one cares about non-Vegas Nevada. To be fair, isn't most of non-Vegas Nevada just dust?
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# ? Feb 27, 2016 01:21 |
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A White Guy posted:So...there's some patch of Nevada desert that is unbelievably toxic out there. That makes me wonder about how much land was contaminated by blown dimethyl mercury containing dust. Not Nevada. China Lake, California.
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DemeaninDemon posted:Unless you're into ripping sweet ore out of the ground using stuff that belongs in this thread. Well sort of since most explosives in use are safe as gently caress. You still use low grade (this thread) chemicals to process your ore if it's anything but iron being mined.
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