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- From: quest@iowegia.uucp (Steve J. Quest)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: Home made rockets
- Message-ID: <F06kPB3w165w@iowegia.uucp>
- Date: 16 Aug 92 06:23:14 GMT
- References: <9208110307.AA03788@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov>
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- roberts@CMR.NCSL.NIST.GOV (John Roberts) writes:
-
- > Sounds like you were really a top-notch rocket designer. Probably not
- > one amateur rocket designer in a thousand could do as well as you did. So
- > what was reasonably safe for you could still be very dangerous for others.
- > I learned early not to hand a big Fresnel lens to a random person outdoors -
- > the usual instinctive reaction is to try to look at the sun through it!
- >
-
- John,
-
- My first reaction when I got a big Fresnel lens was to
- burn things. I did this with my friends, all of whom were not
- nearly as adept as myself in the area of science. Needless to
- say, they DID look through it, but not at the sun. Also, they did
- NOT place their hands at the focal point. I have concluded that
- people are not nearly as stupid as we intellectuals believe.
-
- By the way, I liked to burn ants. I was god, bringing
- fire down from the skies. They tried to run, but so long as they
- remained upon the surface of the ant hill, they were targets, and
- victims of my beams of destruction. Demented little sucker,
- wasn't I? I remember that I could burn ants for hours.......sq
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