| Author | Message | ||
     Anonymous |
I was at the local Natural History Museum and they were fring off these simple rockets. What one does is: fill a film canister halfway or less with water, put in a quarter tablet of Alka-Seltzer, put the lid on, put it on the ground lid down, and watch it fly! It's a very fun toy, and flies about 20 feet. Have fun! LBS | ||
| marusushi Unregistered guest |
Yeah, I used to make those. I want to try making a rocket, but using the same principles as the hydrogen bomb. | ||
| Troy (Pharoah) Member Username: Pharoah Post Number: 15 Registered: 3-2006 |
A quarter tablet? Is it too dangerous to use a whole one?  | ||
| Alexander N Roberts (Whoo_mythbusters) Advanced Member Username: Whoo_mythbusters Post Number: 64 Registered: 9-2005 |
no not al all it just "blasts off" faster.. also if you can get to it fastenough after it was launched you can poor more water in and make it blast off again you can do this several times | ||
| mnado (Mnado) Senior Member Username: Mnado Post Number: 196 Registered: 12-2005 |
You can try to fill water half way to a 1.5 bottle and put a whole tablet inside and block the end with cork. | ||
| greg koz (Greg1118) Intermediate Member Username: Greg1118 Post Number: 21 Registered: 10-2006 |
O yeah. I did this in school. but we made a rocket out of paper to put on the film can | ||
| John Kondo (Smartypants) Member Username: Smartypants Post Number: 12 Registered: 4-2008 |
and it flies better if you grind the tab into powder. |
