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[–] [email protected] 55 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Making amateur rockets and pipe bombs are basically identical -- for a rocket, one end of the pipe is open. There's a vibrant amateur rockets community nevertheless.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Not really, the whole point of a pipe bomb is for the reaction to happen as fast as possible. This is sub optimal for rocketry.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago

However, anyone who has tried to make their own DIY solid fuel model rocket motor has inevitably wound up with their first attempt being something between a small bomb and a large firework.

My first attempt certainly was...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

A rocket makes for a bad, inefficient pipe bomb. But it'll still take your hand off