I'm making a list of famous scientists who blew things up as youth, to build my case that blowing up things is a prerequisite to a lot of great science. Here's a few so far: Thomas Edison: railway baggage car Homer Hickam: fence B. F. Skinner: shed/garage Jack Welch: factory If anybody can add to the list, I'm forever greatful.
a child who has grown up with out blowing anything is deprived of one of the joys of life. Just as long as they dont blow up anything of mine then its cool by me, but if they do then its gona be ma foot blowing up their ass!!!!!
Those guys lived during the Age of Chemistry and the Age of Physics, the last two centuries. This is going to be the Age of Biology. Explosions don't have much to do with biology. I don't think a kid who is good a finding ways to blow things up is going to grow up to be the next Linnaeus. Violence reached its peak as a characteristic of human culture in the middle of the last century. Hiroshima, the Holocaust... Since then it's been on the wane. Warfare with its grandiose scope has been virtually replaced by acts of terrorism, often with single-digit body counts. Mobsters no longer mow down entire crowds with tommy guns, they do hostile corporate takeovers and leave the street fighting to children. Even the last serial killers--the Beltway Snipers--only got about seventeen people. I don't think that children need to practice blowing things up in order to prepare for an adulthood of greatness, any more than they need to practice shooting animals to "get in touch with nature."
lol, now'a days its a class C fellony :-\ ... ya it kidna sucks espicaly when your jsut playen around.. i think its fun and important.. but crimes on your record are bad Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
just like my teacher always said: Physics isnt just about blowing things up, its about blowing things up and knowing how you did it. LOL, i love that quote. Arc
