• Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Back in college one time the President of the US visited our campus and gave a speech. The security was intense - Secret Service on rooftops and a helicopter that dropped off the Pres and then spent the whole time he was there hovering maybe 60 or 80 ft up, dead still, like it was glued in the air - I thought that part was pretty cool. Anyway a friend of mine chose that day to toss a little chunk of sodium in a fountain out in front of the chemistry building. I wasn’t right there but I heard it made a big pop sound, yellow flash, and sent a column of water shooting up. Dunno if the agents saw it, heard it or both, but man were they scurrying all over the place for a while.