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I don't know if he had autism (and if I were you I wouldn't make any assumptions), however, based on his Reddit activity, he definitely did drugs, and often tried to mix them to get the most powerful results. People who were knowledgeable about the drugs on Reddit warned him about mixing some of the substances he wanted to mix because of how dangerous the concoctions were.
give him a Pill of Sodium and a glass of water and tell him that it is the best concoction there is 
Google tracks everything. When I use Safari with Ghostery, Google comes up on every single page. That's evil, because they want to know everything you do.
I'm not trying to defend Apple here, but Jobs was right with that one.
give him a Pill of Sodium and a glass of water and tell him that it is the best concoction there is
That takes me back to chemistry lessons....and pilfering magnesium ribbons to throw on the coal fire at home to terrify my parents
Our chemistry teachers were more sadistic. They would quietly walk into each other's lessons because they had a tray of something that 'needed' to go into a vacant fume cupboard and then leave. 30-40 seconds later mass evacuation because aluminium sulphide.That takes me back to chemistry lessons....and pilfering magnesium ribbons to throw on the coal fire at home to terrify my parents
I'm disappointed that "classic" chemistry demonstrations like blowing up hydrogen balloons are now frowned upon. I made and blew up many of them in my undergrad years(plus stoichiometric hydrogen/oxygen balloons, which are a LOT louder), but larger universities frown upon that. I asked about doing it on the first day of class this summer, and was told no.
There's also some of my old favorite demos like the "screaming gummy bear"(dropping a gummy bear into molten KClO4), thermite, the Methane Mamba(catching soap bubbles full of methane on fire) and the whoosh bottle(a 5 gallon water cooler jug with methanol vapor in it) that are also off limits.
I remember the first time we made an LN2 bomb out of a 2L bottle. I had no idea what to expect, and we ended up shaking dust loose from the ceiling when it went off. We did them outside after that.
I can also remember calling Campus Safety and warning them that we would be "doing an experiment that involved loud noises in chemistry/on the front lawn/etc." I'm told that the dispatcher would usually just hang up the phone and shout to any officers in nearby range that "Chemistry is blowing something up again."
There's also some of my old favorite demos like the "screaming gummy bear"(dropping a gummy bear into molten KClO4), thermite, the Methane Mamba(catching soap bubbles full of methane on fire) and the whoosh bottle(a 5 gallon water cooler jug with methanol vapor in it) that are also off limits.
I remember the first time we made an LN2 bomb out of a 2L bottle. I had no idea what to expect, and we ended up shaking dust loose from the ceiling when it went off. We did them outside after that.
I can also remember calling Campus Safety and warning them that we would be "doing an experiment that involved loud noises in chemistry/on the front lawn/etc." I'm told that the dispatcher would usually just hang up the phone and shout to any officers in nearby range that "Chemistry is blowing something up again."
I have heard that filling a giant contractor trash bag with oxygen and acetylene from a cutting torch and shooting it will produce an absolutely enormous, earth shaking boom. And sticking it inside an overturned 55 gallon drum and shooting it will turn the drum into a rocket as well.
Just something I've heard.
Ah yes. I'd always have a spare bag of popcorn for the threads his inane debates took place in.
Suddenly, blasting old hard drives to smithereens makes sense...
Many High Schools used to allow similar things with balloons and burning points of various elements then after 2004 every town/city called such stuff a liability risk--some area voters tried to push a signature drive for a ballot vote and movements were blocked. There is still a university who does liquid nitrogen dipped pumpkin & watermellon drops... they're quite epic.
At my old uni, there was an IT guy who would use a science lab to show why you shouldn't drop a HDD... these were IBM Deskstar platters which were made of glass.
I have no idea what modern HDDs look like or platter material, most old drives(early-late 90s) sitting near my work desk are 1.5-3mm thick metal & ideal for turbine reuse. SyQuest platters of the 5.25" kind are great to repurpose, 3.5" versions were surplus Conner platters--founders of Conner & SyQuest were ex-Seagate employees for those who don't know the connection
