palani
6th April 2016, 07:22 PM
Next thing you know they will forget about guns on campus and have signs forbidding experimenting with rocket propelled skateboards at elementary schools.
http://www.grindtv.com/skateboarding/student-dies-in-rocket-propelled-skateboard-explosion/
A Southern California high school student has died after the homemade model rocket he attached to his skateboard deck to propel it forward exploded, killing the student and injuring his friend.
According to authorities, 18-year-old Bernard Moon, of Thousand Oaks, California, died after the blast Monday night while he and a fellow, unnamed 17-year-old senior at Thousand Oaks High School were experimenting with the homemade rocket-propelled skateboard in the courtyard at Madrona Elementary School in Thousand Oaks.
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The pair of honor roll students were using a rocket roughly 1 foot long and three quarters of an inch in diameter. As reported by the Associated Press, the rocket was specifically designed to move the skateboard.
“It wasn’t meant to go up into the sky,” Ventura County Sheriff’s Office Captain Garo Kuredjian told the AP. “It was meant to go horizontally to propel a skateboard.”
Bernard Moon is being remembered as a promising, brilliant student.
Investigators are trying to reconstruct the homemade rocket to attempt to figure out what exactly went wrong. It’s unclear if anyone was riding the skateboard at the time of the explosion, but what is known is that the two teens were experimenting with “some sort of chemical combination” to fuel the rocket, according to Captain Kuredjian.
Following Moon’s death, Thousand Oaks High School took to its Twitter account to post that the school was reeling from the loss of an intelligent student with a bright future:
Our hearts are broken. But the bonds of faculty, staff, & students will bring healing. Thank you to all for your support at this time.
— Thousand Oaks HS (@ThousandOaksHS) April 5, 2016
According to at least one parent who knew Moon and who also happened to be at Madrona Elementary School at the time of the experiment, the incident was just an incredibly tragic freak occurrence.
“Brilliant boys, good boys,” Tammy Coburn told KTLA-5. “This was just a horrible science project accident gone wrong.”
Coburn added to the Associated Press that the “huge explosion” was so intense it made the school shake.
According to the Los Angeles Times, Moon was deeply interested in chemistry and had placed second in the Ventura County Science Fair last year. Moon was also a tennis athlete and, according to some students who knew him, had been accepted to Brown University and the University of California Berkeley on scholarship.
The 17-year-old with Moon at the time of the explosion was treated for his injuries and released from the hospital on Tuesday.
I recall years ago a Darwin award winner who attached a rocket engine to a car ... which went airborne and whose flight ended with a singularity called a MOUNTAIN.
http://www.grindtv.com/skateboarding/student-dies-in-rocket-propelled-skateboard-explosion/
A Southern California high school student has died after the homemade model rocket he attached to his skateboard deck to propel it forward exploded, killing the student and injuring his friend.
According to authorities, 18-year-old Bernard Moon, of Thousand Oaks, California, died after the blast Monday night while he and a fellow, unnamed 17-year-old senior at Thousand Oaks High School were experimenting with the homemade rocket-propelled skateboard in the courtyard at Madrona Elementary School in Thousand Oaks.
RELATED: Man killed while hanging from side of truck on his skateboard
The pair of honor roll students were using a rocket roughly 1 foot long and three quarters of an inch in diameter. As reported by the Associated Press, the rocket was specifically designed to move the skateboard.
“It wasn’t meant to go up into the sky,” Ventura County Sheriff’s Office Captain Garo Kuredjian told the AP. “It was meant to go horizontally to propel a skateboard.”
Bernard Moon is being remembered as a promising, brilliant student.
Investigators are trying to reconstruct the homemade rocket to attempt to figure out what exactly went wrong. It’s unclear if anyone was riding the skateboard at the time of the explosion, but what is known is that the two teens were experimenting with “some sort of chemical combination” to fuel the rocket, according to Captain Kuredjian.
Following Moon’s death, Thousand Oaks High School took to its Twitter account to post that the school was reeling from the loss of an intelligent student with a bright future:
Our hearts are broken. But the bonds of faculty, staff, & students will bring healing. Thank you to all for your support at this time.
— Thousand Oaks HS (@ThousandOaksHS) April 5, 2016
According to at least one parent who knew Moon and who also happened to be at Madrona Elementary School at the time of the experiment, the incident was just an incredibly tragic freak occurrence.
“Brilliant boys, good boys,” Tammy Coburn told KTLA-5. “This was just a horrible science project accident gone wrong.”
Coburn added to the Associated Press that the “huge explosion” was so intense it made the school shake.
According to the Los Angeles Times, Moon was deeply interested in chemistry and had placed second in the Ventura County Science Fair last year. Moon was also a tennis athlete and, according to some students who knew him, had been accepted to Brown University and the University of California Berkeley on scholarship.
The 17-year-old with Moon at the time of the explosion was treated for his injuries and released from the hospital on Tuesday.
I recall years ago a Darwin award winner who attached a rocket engine to a car ... which went airborne and whose flight ended with a singularity called a MOUNTAIN.