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Old 10-17-2018, 04:50 PM
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Excargodog
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Did you know that the difference between a metal tube rocket filled with "candy fuel" (KNO3,and sugar) and a pipe bomb is about 0.3 seconds of burn time? And that using a metal tube casing instead of a cardboard tube liner will decrease the burn time about 0.4 seconds?

Well I didn't either when I was in junior high, but the vice principal liked me so I just got four weeks detention and the BATF guy had bigger fish to fry apparently so he let me off with an @$$ chewing and the Intel guy who dug up the old BATF file years later when I was getting my TS-SCI clearance was actually a cross trainee from EOD and he thought the whole episode was hilarious.

You can indeed recover from mistakes, but try to get through high school and college with all both eyes and all fingers intact and with a minimum of incriminating paperwork you'll have to explain to someone in some airline HR shop who might lack the sense of humor of that Intel guy. That's my recommendation anyway.
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