/sci/ - Science & Math

>8th grade
>Science Fair Time! :D
>Had just finished reading October Sky
>Design some rockets of my own, get about 15 of them made using stuff from my older brother who is taking metalshop in high school
>Think up 15 things that have exothermic reactions to use as fuel, ranging from from gasoline to hydrogen that I obtained through electrolysis with a car battery
>Decide in the interest of safety to launch them away from housing.
>My Hypothesis: Using exothermic reactions as a means of propelling rockets will generate a negative parabolic curve to describe their efficiency and capability as a means of propulsion. ie- weak reactants won't work very well but explosive ones won't either, there'll be a middle ground somewhere and I wanted to figure out where.
>I am going to have the most AWESOME science fair project in the history of EVER.

Now, at the time, I lived on a military installation. I had just finished exploding my hydrogen when an army of no less than five security cars asking what the fuck am I doing blowing shit up and firing homemade missiles off on a USAF installation.

>mfw I get grounded and had to do a project on grass growth

>It is common knowledge that pigs are smarter than a ~3-year-old.
>year
>3