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5 hours ago, Stormpilot said:

Schools and other thing are shut down in my town due to landslides and flooding. A train has already de railed and other bad stuff so it’s quite hectic listening to the fire dept on the radio :( 

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I just finished my last exam. This brings good news and bad news:

Good news: It’s vacation! :D 2 months without school, in the middle of the summer and Christmas! Hurray for the southern hemisphere! :D
 

Bad news: My mom wants me to get up at something like 6 o’ clock to go get my passport renewed tomorrow :mad:, and Friday I need to get up at 7 o’ clock because I apparently need to visit someone who will give me extra after school math :mad: (advanced math). My only consolation is that I won’t have to go to them in vacations. Then on the 2 of December they are going to organize the house, and I’m still fighting to stop them organizing my room, then it’s a gazillion other things. And we’re going to the sea, and a couple of towns. I’m barely going to have a vacation at all because of my stupid, annoying, and all around irritating parents, especially my mom.

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Edit: Good news everyone! My dad needs to go with me for my passport, so I can sleep in tomorrow! Thank goodness for the constant travel of civil engineering.
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On 10/15/2021 at 7:19 PM, DDE said:

And another. Glad to see intense Kirovposting and Flanjerposting are beginning to impact routine US military operations.

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Remember when we thought those guys were cool?

And now the civvies are joining in. Look carefully at the livery at 2:07:

Now I believe it's actually an Aeroflot Boeing 737-800, so it's a double twist!

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I built a water electrolyzer and didn't blow myself up! :D Even better, it actually worked! Well, only twice, after that it started tripping the plugs (shorting), but that is good for a hardware store 15 amp mains connection, a floor washing bucket filled with salt water, and two metal soup cans as electrodes! :D 

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The cans after it started shorting and I replaced them with a stainless steel spatula and basket thingy. (Yes, this contraption is held together by duct tape.)

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The latest variant, it works, for the single second until it shorts.

Tomorrow I aim to get saltpeter (Potassium Nitrate) from a butcher, if they are open. If I can get it, this electrolyzer is unnecessary because I can make rocket candy, instead of using hydrogen and oxygen gas as fuel for a rocket.

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On 11/20/2021 at 4:38 PM, Hyperspace Industries said:

I built a water electrolyzer and didn't blow myself up! :D Even better, it actually worked! Well, only twice, after that it started tripping the plugs (shorting), but that is good for a hardware store 15 amp mains connection, a floor washing bucket filled with salt water, and two metal soup cans as electrodes! :D 

You're using mains to electrolyze? You will blow yourself up. AC will produce a mixture of gasses in a perfectly exploady ratio.

Also, exposed mains. You won't live long enough to blow yourself up.

Use DC to separate H2 and O2 in separate containers, and even then be careful.

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1 hour ago, Shpaget said:

You're using mains to electrolyze? You will blow yourself up. AC will produce a mixture of gasses in a perfectly exploady ratio.

Also, exposed mains. You won't live long enough to blow yourself up.

Use DC to separate H2 and O2 in separate containers, and even then be careful.

I would if I could, I can't afford to get a (configurable) dc power supply (more than 1000 South African rand a pop), also, I previously used a scavenged mains connection from a vacuum cleaner (which wasn't limited to 15 amps) and it produced so much electricity that the electrolyzer (two or so years ago) went from room temperature to too-hot-to-touch in less than two seconds. As for the separate containers, that is something I am probably going to do, because H2 and ½O2 is much handier than HHO. This thing is mostly a proof of concept now.

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2 hours ago, kerbiloid said:

 

2 hours ago, StrandedonEarth said:

I made it to work today!

I'm just afraid to even assume what was the Season 2 about...

 

Well, the work part is because I couldn’t work most of last week because of highway closures due to floods and mudslides. The Season 2 part was about an historically inaccurate dark comedy about some famous Russians… Absolutely hilarious, and totally crude

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