General Discussion

... and some of the things I did subsequently really were dangerous.

My siblings and I were largely unsupervised as children and very resourceful.

In my early teens I quickly got bored with Estes rockets and started making my own. Some of them went BOOM! They were not meant to do that.

I think my parents encouraged my interest in computers and electronics because it seemed a safer hobby than rockets or chemistry.

Let's hope this kid isn't scared off his pursuit of science by all the nonsense. Sadly we seem to be living in a demon-haunted world, as described by Carl Sagan.