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Cody's Lab did a video series on making yellow cake uranium that got him a visit from g men. Most everything Colin Furze does has mortal danger. Styropyro is
by piyh 5y ago
Cody's Lab did a video series on making yellow cake uranium that got him a visit from g men. Most everything Colin Furze does has mortal danger. Styropyro is probably also on a watchlist. Williams project was dangerous, but I don't see a reason why he should be a pariah.
- hef19898 5y ago
- vinyl7 5y agoMaybe it's time we don't allow children on the internet. Same way we don't allow children to wonder around in the city by themselves
- hef19898 5y agoSince we do the latter, I don't see problems with the former.
- anamax 5y agoHuh? Where and when don't we allow children to wander around the city by themselves? In many large cities, kids are expected to use public transit to get to/from school. It's not unknown for parents to send kids on errands. And, how does the kid get to the park? This "kids can't go anywhere alone" idea is very new. My Mom complained that the one route that I never used to go to/from school is the one that she showed me.
- sho_hn 5y agoIt seems to be a recent development in some larger American cities. I work in a company in Berlin that has job applicants from many different countries, including the US. Common question during the process (we generally require relocation at this point) are: - "Can my 12yo children go somewhere alone? I'm from Portland/similar and this is not the case here and it's why we're moving." - "We've been looking and it's really hard to find an apartment in Berlin. We have this ground-floor option, but they just shot the ground-floor windows in across the street here again this morning. Is ground floor safe in Berlin? I'm no longer surprised when it comes up, but it's quite sad.
- quantumwannabe 5y agoThat's because they're from Portland. There are only a handful of cities in the US where people do not feel safe to let their kids run around, and Portland is one of them. Even there only certain neighborhoods are unsafe. Your view of America is the same as an American who believes that women can't go outside without being sexually assaulted in Germany because of the 2015-16 New Years attacks, i.e. incredibly out of touch.
- sho_hn 5y agoI hope so!
- mschuetz 5y agoSince when do we not allow children to wander around by themselves? It's perfectly normal in Austria.
- kube-system 5y agoCOPPA is coming up on its 22nd anniversary, it's due for an update.
- mschuster91 5y ago> Same way we don't allow children to wonder around in the city by themselves Here in Germany, it's absolutely no problem for kids aged 8 to go to school on their own. On the other hand, we offer public transport and our cities are walkable...
- hef19898 5y agoTaking the Munich subway during school rush hour was always fun!
- mschuster91 5y agoOh, a fellow person from Munich! HN is a village.
- hef19898 5y agoIt really is!
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- mschuetz 5y agoSince when do we not allow children to wander around by themselves? It's perfectly normal in Austria.
- qazpot 5y agoIf we follow that route a lot of internet would need to be banned.
- hef19898 5y agoWell, there's a reason why we have Youtoube and PornHub on the other hand, don't we?
- mwint 5y ago... which are both accessible by children. I don't see the point you're making?
- hef19898 5y agoIf you don't get the difference between a dedicated adult site, with adult content, and a general public platform I see why you don't see the point.
- xboxnolifes 5y agoThat's why there is Youtube Kids [1]. See, the content is separated. Kids shouldn't be on youtube. [1] https://www.youtubekids.com/ https://www.youtubekids.com/
- adolph 5y agoYouTube Kids is mostly safe, but there's a small chance kids could see nudity, violence, or just weird stuff, as well as ads for stuff like junk food. Our study found that 27% of videos watched by kids 8 and under are intended for older target audiences, with violence being the most likely negative content type. . . . On the plus side for parents, YouTube offers fair warning that kids may see something that you don't want them to see and you can block and report inappropriate videos. https://www.commonsensemedia.org/articles/parents-ultimate-guide-to-youtube-kids https://www.commonsensemedia.org/articles/parents-ultimate-g...
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- robertlagrant 5y agoYou're right. A parent giving children access to all of the physical equipment to make this, and leaving them so unsupervised that they can do it is fine. The bad thing is making a video of you doing it, in case people pretend you're promoting it. This is why I will never let my children read a car manual. What if they build a car and run someone over?
- jstarfish 5y agoIt's frighteningly easy for children to get their hands on materials like arsenic and thallium. All they need is a credit card and a YouTube tutorial helpfully walking them through the dosage. I used to share your perspective. Then I ended up with a [step]kid whose only interests in medicine and engineering keep me awake at night.
- Loughla 5y agoYou can buy most of these things on amazon with one click. Source: all of the chemicals I've purchased to blow up tree stumps and what-not that I'm sure have me on some watch list somewhere.
- s0rce 5y agoYou can get thallium on Amazon? I can't think of a common consumer application of thallium is it in some product?
- duskwuff 5y agoThere is at least one vendor selling a sample of thallium in an acrylic cube as a collector's item. Unclear how much is actually present, but any perceptible amount would be pretty dangerous if removed from its enclosure.
- dekhn 5y agoWARNING: this is serious stuff. Read https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/ershdb/emergencyresponsecard_29750026.html https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/ershdb/emergencyresponsecard_29750... and https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/thallium-poisoning-day-and-age https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/thallium-poisoning... and https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/chemist-poisoning-death-nj/1971606/ https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/chemist-poisoning... I think you have to go to specialty suppliers. https://luciteria.com/elements-for-sale/thallium-metal-9999 https://luciteria.com/elements-for-sale/thallium-metal-9999
- HideousKojima 5y agoYou must think all of the high school physics classes that build pumpkin trebuchets are monstrous then.
- buescher 5y agoI checked out all of Alfred Morgan's books from multiple public libraries (a platform accessible by children!!!) in the seventies and early eighties. Probably saw the golden book of chemistry experiments at some point too - it looked very familiar when I got a copy of the pdf as an adult. I think the difficulty of obtaining model T spark coils, chemicals ("ask your druggist") etc kept me out of a lot of trouble.
- Hydraulix989 5y agoAh yes, the think of the children argument. This is why other nice things like chemistry sets and science fiction / fantasy books are also banned.
- sudosysgen 5y agoAh yes, children building X-Ray machines and pulsejet engines without parental supervision, of course.
- adolph 5y agoAnd nukes! Its been a while since I read "The Radioactive Boy Scout" and after rereading it I'm defintely going to keep my kid close as he goes through TCOR's black powder and other experiments. The truth is far more bizarre: the Golf Manor Superfund cleanup was provoked by the boy next door, David Hahn, who attempted to build a nuclear breeder reactor in his mother’s potting shed as part of a Boy Scout merit-badge project. [...] David Hahn taught himself to build a neutron gun. He figured out a way to dupe officials at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission into providing him with crucial information he needed in his attempt to build a breeder reactor, and then he obtained and purified radioactive elements such as radium and thorium. [...] David’s parents admired his interest in science but were alarmed by the chemical spills and blasts that became a regular event at the Hahn household. After David destroyed his bedroom—the walls were badly pocked, and the carpet was so stained that it had to be ripped out—Ken and Kathy banished his experiments to the basement. [...] Kathy then forbade David from experimenting in her home. So he shifted his base of operations to his mother’s potting shed in Golf Manor. Both Patty Hahn and Michael Polasek admired David for the endless hours he spent in his new lab, but neither of them had any idea what he was up to. Sure, they thought it was odd that David often wore a gas mask in the shed and would sometimes discard his clothing after working there until two in the morning, but they chalked it up to their own limited education. Michael says that David tried to explain his experiments but that “what he told me went right over my head.” One thing still sticks out, though. David’s potting-shed project had something to do with creating energy. “He’d say, `One of these days we’re gonna run out of oil.’ He wanted to do something about that.” https://harpers.org/archive/1998/11/the-radioactive-boy-scout/ https://harpers.org/archive/1998/11/the-radioactive-boy-scou...
- ClumsyPilot 5y agoIts an amazing story, shows what you can achieve if you put your mind to it! If someone has excellent knowledge of science and us willing to spend years of effort on a project, normal societal guardrails can't stop them. Whethervfir good or ill
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- Nextgrid 5y agoMaybe we should just ban children going outside lest they see an adult doing something unsafe.
- rhinoceraptor 5y agoColin Furze's videos are much worse in the way he shows not using safety gear. At least an X-Ray tube is hard to come by, hard to use and people generally know it's dangerous.
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoColin Furze is basically a first world mining operation compared to the "look at how they do <insert thing here> in <insert equatorial country here>" type videos that nobody takes any issue with. There's a double standard in there somewhere.
- danw1979 5y agoOf Course we should set a good example when it comes to working with dangerous things in our youtube videos. We should use PPE at all times and give clear warnings about the risks throughout the video… … But Maybe if you’re too stupid to realise that a safety tie isn’t actually protective, then maybe your upcoming appointment with evolution is overdue.
- Loughla 5y agoAlternate option - stemming from the OP comment - if we want to get children involved in engineering and science fields, and this kind of cool shit science is how we can easily do it, they absolutely have to assume a portion of their audience won't know what is real and what isn't. In other words, not everyone is you. Always remember that.
- Robotbeat 5y agoWiley Coyote and the roadrunner rarely wear appropriate PPE. ;) Kids don’t watch any cartoons, do they?
- betwixthewires 5y agoKids can get their hands on a circular saw, they can't get their hands on a giant mallet the size of a car. They imitate what they see on roadrunner as best they can.
- agumonkey 5y agoYou can add: photonicinduction. Everybody looks crazy until they're next to this dude. The dimensions involved scare me, and his "goes to 11 is not enough" attitude makes it even worse.
- 0des 5y agoThere is no pearl clutching in science.
- snerbles 5y agoPhotonicinduction's videos fulfill the wild mad electrical engineering fantasies I never had the guts to try as an undergrad.
- agumonkey 5y agoI honestly have no idea how he can do that in his own house legally.
- MertsA 5y agoI'm pretty sure he's passed that boundary long ago. I'm surprised the power company hasn't tried to stop service yet.
- lazide 5y agoWell, they’d probably need to make a law banning it - and who seriously believes anyone is going to do that anyway enough to pass a law about it? (Lol) Also, even relatively nanny state UK probably figures if he’s only going to take himself out, why bother trying to stop him.
- rdc12 5y agoWell most of the politicians don't have a clue that any of that stuff is possible either.
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- zen_1 5y agoI believe (though my memory is foggy, so don't quote me on this) Styropyro was approached by some military/DARPA projects with an employment offer, but he reportedly turned it down.
- anitil 5y agoFrom memory I believe the reason he got the visit was because he made a joke about creating a fusion reactor - something like "until I get my fusion reactor running I'll need to use the sun"
- Zak 5y agoThat would be surprising. Building small fusion reactors is neither illegal nor unheard of as a hobby: https://fusor.net/ https://fusor.net/ Unsurprisingly, doing so is hazardous. The process involves high voltage, and if successful, emits X-rays and neutrons.
- iudqnolq 5y agoIn contrast, I appreciate that ElectroBOOM carefully scripts every seemingly accidental fire or spark to ensure he's safe. He has had only one instant where he screwed up and survived through luck.