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I emptied out the entire science building by reducing DMSO. You've smelled nothing until you've smelled DMS.
by coldcode 14y ago
I emptied out the entire science building by reducing DMSO. You've smelled nothing until you've smelled DMS.
- iab 14y agoAs bad as/worse than ammonia?
- davidcuddeback 14y agoI caused a small brush fire playing with an Estes rocket. Fire department told me "try to be more careful."
- davidcuddeback 14y agoOh yeah, I also caused a small explosion at school by filling a water bottle with LN2.
- Yhippa 14y agoI didn't start a fire but I remember launching those things when I was a kid. Did it in Boy Scouts and several after-school programs. Can you even launch those things these days without violating some sort of protected airspace or getting in trouble for some other nonsense rule?
- jlgreco 14y agoYes. IIRC they tightened up the laws about buying those engines after 9/11 but later loosened them again. If you are launching large rockets then the FAA has some rules, but that is nothing new.
- jfb 14y agoI remember hooking a D motor up to a guide wire (no rocket!) and firing it off in a lot behind my friend Jason's house. It took the predictably chaotic trajectory and again predictably shot straight through the closed window at a house under construction across the otherwise empty lot. I think we stuck around long enough to make sure that the place didn't catch fire, which, in retrospect, was probably the dumbest thing of all. Good times.
- davidcuddeback 14y agoThat's almost exactly how I started the fire. We launched the rocket several times, progressively losing more parts of it. First the nose cone. Then the body. All we had left was one last rocket, so we launched the rocket alone without a body. It sort of spiralled into the air. It didn't make it very high---maybe about 100 feet---then fell into the brush. I think the parachute charge went off after the engine landed in the brush.
- Florin_Andrei 14y agoWorse than cadaverine or putrescine? :)
- coldcode 14y agoYes. Make a great way to get bad guys out of a building.
- darkarmani 14y agoFrom wikipedia: > It penetrates the skin very readily, giving it the unusual property for many individuals of being secreted onto the surface of the tongue after contact with the skin and causing a garlic-like taste in the mouth. You can taste it after having skin contact with it?
- eropple 14y agoYup. It is crazy stuff.
- cafard 14y agoOne of my father's co-workers had emptied out one of the better high schools in Mexico City by synthesizing essence of skunk and releasing it appropriately. I think that he and his collaborators got a week's suspension. This would have been sometime in the 1940s.
- jlgreco 14y agoSomeone did that at my highschool with butyric acid. The smell was so bad that a few people added to it by actually vomiting.