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Re:14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to S... by lloyd-christmas on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @12:00PM (#10227557)
I wasn't allowed to do my high school science scholars project on electromagnetic propulsion because it was around the time of Columbine: "You could potentially make a gun out of it".
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Re:14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to S... by elektromekatron on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @01:23PM (#10228249)
I used to use the bench power supplies to fire nails across the classroom with a coil. This wasn't for a project, I was just bored.
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