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# You can disintegrate diamonds
using a high powered electron gun. Blats the carbon atoms straight off. Always wanted to try that.
(I helped save b3ta! Lethe is carrying a spade. SPANG., Sat 20 Dec 2003, 23:27, archived)
# but if you duck taped an almond
to an atom bomb and blew it up, the bloody nut would still be intact: lesson from this, almond shells are the hardest substance known to man. Crash helmets should be made out of the stuff, come to think of it
(I helped save b3ta! dotmund .co.uk, Sat 20 Dec 2003, 23:28, archived)
# but what happens to the ducks?
(I helped save b3ta! lo, the Greebo Warrior - Est. 2002, Sat 20 Dec 2003, 23:34, archived)
# They ducked.
And managed to survive.
(I helped save b3ta! Lethe is carrying a spade. SPANG., Sat 20 Dec 2003, 23:36, archived)
# Assuming that is true.
Take an atom bomb then, and stick it within a hardened steel ovoid. Place the atom bomb at one locus, and the almond at the other. Blow up atom bomb, Almond is history.

(Basic workings of a H-Bomb, except the other locus has hydrogen at it rather than an Almond)
(I helped save b3ta! Lethe is carrying a spade. SPANG., Sat 20 Dec 2003, 23:35, archived)
# I bow to your superior knowledge of physics
I will stick to nutcrackers, hammers and welly boot heels again this year, before meddling with explosives on any kind
(I helped save b3ta! dotmund .co.uk, Sat 20 Dec 2003, 23:37, archived)
# wuss
make a landmine, go on....
(I helped save b3ta! lo, the Greebo Warrior - Est. 2002, Sat 20 Dec 2003, 23:41, archived)
# H-bombs are fun.
The first one they built was on an atoll in the pacific, and was the size of a large house. They evacuated it, and blew it up. They didn't evacuate far enough and a lot of sailors got radiaton poisoning. The atoll ceased to exist, completely destroyed.

I think guy who worked on the maths that made the H-bomb possible topped himself when he discovered what his work into geometric shapes had been used for.

And my final H-bomb fact. They were worried at the time that there was the possibility that the initial fusion of the hydrogen may set off a chain reaction in the atoms of the sea and air, and blow up the planet. So they did it anyway.

I think I got all that right, correct me if i'm wrong. :)

Edit: Coincidentally, the same thing occured with the original atom bomb. They thought there was a chance that setting one off would blow up the world. So they did it anyway.
(I helped save b3ta! Lethe is carrying a spade. SPANG., Sat 20 Dec 2003, 23:42, archived)
# fucking mad scientists
(I helped save b3ta! lo, the Greebo Warrior - Est. 2002, Sat 20 Dec 2003, 23:44, archived)
# I put it to you
that this is why I'm a good science teacher...

Hehe.

Edit: I am wondering if I can get away with having the kids design using the chemicals available in the lab, and their knowledge of reactions etc. Landmines, and giving a prize to the most destructive design.

Think I may have trouble getting that past health and safety...
(I helped save b3ta! Lethe is carrying a spade. SPANG., Sat 20 Dec 2003, 23:46, archived)
# it would be legal if
1. the kids are a LONG distance away
2. the landmines contain no shrapnel or debris
3. your bury them in pots of soil (to absorb some of the blast away)
4. no-one find out
(I helped save b3ta! lo, the Greebo Warrior - Est. 2002, Sat 20 Dec 2003, 23:56, archived)