This is refreshing in this day and age: The joy of blowing up your lab partner.
And …
U.S. Capitol cops have to abandon their shooting range after “safety” improvements caused unsafe conditions. (And what’s that about getting a little nick at the corner of your eye, fella? Not wearing your goggles, were you???) (H/T Jim Bovard)
Shouldn’t the Capital Police confiscate their own guns? Guns are the problem right?
I loved the chemistry video. It looks like something I need to try.
It’s too bad there isn’t some national organization, chartered back in 1871, that wrote the book (literally) on shooting range construction and has a bunch of people on a range technical team more than willing to consult for anyone building a facility.
Ah, my days in the lab. Too late; done did it. At home and elsewhere.
DC cops: I could have sworn there was an obscure device for indoor ranges called a bullet trap. (To be fair, a shooting companion did catch a fragment of one of my .45 rounds in an indoor range once. But this sounds like somewhat more than a single freak accident.)
What’s that “don’t try this at home” nonsense? Of course this is something I will have to try at home!
As to the Capitol Police, I assume that they will turn in their guns until the range is re-opened, right? We can’t have untrained people running around armed, can we?
Chemistry class, high school and college… How come I never heard of this exploding thing? I was robbed, I tell you! That sounds like so much fun. Honestly, I’m glad my youngest son never heard of it either. He has caused plenty enough damage with plain old black powder. Blew the doors off the garage once…
As for the handgun range. There isn’t anything government can’t screw up. Eventually. Fifty years in operation (no telling how many problems, really), but shut down after a “safety” remodel? No surprise. Then, of course, the whole definition of “safety” has changed since it was originally built.
How come I never heard of this exploding thing?
I think it’s the same recipe described in Heinlein’s Farnham’s Freehold. SF is where I got most of my really relevant education. At least until Infantry School.
Don’t remember that part at all. LarryA. I was a teen when I read that, and far too busy being freaked out by the cannibalism and slavery thing. I remember those…
Cannibalism? Slavery thing? Explody stuff?
Dang, I need to get a copy myself.
Why do I suspect that some idiot(s) were shooting at steel targets there?