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by wildekek 910 days ago
Hypergolics in your backyard is no joke.
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"Orange smoke. Don't breathe this."

(The color is characteristic of nitrogen dioxide, which is a breakdown product of many hypergolic propellants.)

As wise words now as the days they were spoken. Never forget the eternal question: will it blend?
A little UDMH never hurt anyone. Well, not for very long at least.
Reminds me of when a crewed SpaceX capsule landed in the Gulf of Mexico near Pensacola and a bunch of idiots in boats went to check it out.

https://www.space.com/boaters-crash-spacex-crew-dragon-splas...