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About Us
Our Philosophy
We think that science experiments are far more entertaining and stimulating than watching television. In fact, everyone involved with our site hates television with a passion! The projects on these pages are what we passionately do instead. Note the wording above--television is something you watch. Science is something you do! And you have to sit and think about science, too...performing experiments in your mind, and figuring out how to make them work. We also believe that information should be free to anyone, anywhere, anytime. Information is far more valuable than Gold! We will gladly consider publishing your science experiments here, with full credit to you and links to your site...please Email us with anything you would like to share.
This Site is Weird! Who ARE you people???
We at Matchrockets.com are a strange bunch of hermits who live way up in the mountains of Colorado, USA. We have no power or phone lines, so we make all of our power from scratch, and don't talk much (since our grammar and spelling are so bad). We communicate with the rest of the world via a satellite internet connection, and the occasional trip to town. We run a few other websites relating to science, and wanted to combine our various projects on one site. Two of our other sites are Wondermagnet.com (Neodymium supermagnets retail and wholesale), and Otherpower.com (making solar, wind and water power from scratch). You'll see many of our experiments from these two sites mirrored here, plus many more to come. Our main company which owns all of the websites is called Forcefield. That's about it for us...however, our dogs are indicating that they have something more to say about us...
About Our Humans
FLASH
My human is DanB. He is an insane mad scientist who spends most of his time out in the trailer that he calls his 'laboratory.' He is always out there making windmills, building alternators, messing with Tesla coils, levitating magnets, and making big sparks, loud booms, and big flames that distress me immensely. But he is part owner of the company, and came up with all these weird website ideas in the first place, and keeps me in kibbles. I would rather that he spent his time chasing squirrels up trees with me and Tarmac, or with his sweet, pretty wife and cute little daughter. As for ME, I am the fastest dog at Matchrockets.com headquarters, and I'm a pretty good dog unless you are a squirrel or a stuffed animal. I'm a purebred male German Shorthair and I love to run, run, run!
KODIAK
My human is DanF. He is an insane mad scientist who spends most of his time on the stupid computer thingy instead of going hiking and backpacking with me. I even have my own backpack, and can carry 15 pounds! When my human is not hitting his fingers on that stupid keyboard thing, he is out fighting fires and going to car accident and medical calls for the local volunteer fire department. At least I get to go along sometimes and guard the fire truck! I even carry medical supplies in my pack for him if we have to hike in to the incident. I'm a girl, half Husky, half Blue Heeler. My boss doesn't keep cows, so I have to be content with herding his cats around. I'm a pretty good dog unless you are another female dog. If so, I automatically hate you. If you are a boy dog, I love you unless you fail to do everything I tell you to. If you are a human that I don't know and are trying to break into my house I will eat you.
TARMAC
I don't know who my human is. She used to be DanF's wife, but she ran off with some loser from town because she thought the mountains were boring since there weren't any bars and we didn't have enough electricity to watch the TV all the time. Glad I didn't have to move down there, town SUCKS! So now I live and both DanF's and DanB's houses, and pretty much I'm friends with every human in the whole world. My best buddy is Flash, we chase squirrels together every day. Never have caught one, though! I'm a purebred Blue Heeler from Australia, but I've never seen a cow up close in my whole life. They sure look fun to chase, though, and those green, smelly piles they leave behind are yummy!
DIXIE
My human is Matt, DanB's brother and another part owner of the company. My human just bought property up here on the mountain so we can romp and run and play frisbee and play golf! Part of the time we are down in town at the Forcefield shipping office where Matt tries to make order out of chaos, and I get to play frisbee in the back yard. But I get REALLY mad 'cause my human won't let me play golf. He says it's because I try and grab the golf balls and moving golf clubs out of the air while the other humans play, and that I would get hurt. I disagree! For a lively young female purebred Border Collie like me, those golf balls and club heads are moving in slow motion! I could grab 'em easy. Oh, my best friends are Tarmac and Flash. We chase squirrels together!
DOBBSTER
My human is Mark, the other part owner of the company. He is a computer genius, and writes all our of our CGI (cat gut interface) scripts that let you order kitty kibbles and catnip mousies from our sites. He is also a Linux wizard, which means that I don't have to pay a dead mouse tax to Bill Gates everytime I want to watch the tropical fish screensaver on the computer. I actually like it that my human is on the computer all the time, because it gives me a nice cozy lap to curl up on. He even takes me for walks on my own leash (so I don't devour all the birds and rodents in his backyard.) You probably have noticed that I am NOT a dog. I am very proud of that fact! We cats are more civilised, less rowdy, serve a useful purpose (rodent control!), and are not inclined to roll in fresh, green cow turds for fun, unlike certain canine creatures I might mention. And UNLIKE any of the dogs OR humans on this page, I have my own website and domain name, Dobbster.com. SO THERE!
We will gladly accept, review and consider your science experiment submissions for inclusion on this site, whether you are age 6 or age 100! Email us for details.
Every experiment on these pages must be done with adult supervision only!!! If you are already an adult, we recommend getting a friend to help so you don't do anything childish and hurt yourself. We'll try to provide safety warnings, but cannot be held responsible for your own safety. Many of these experiments and many of the books we sell are from another era when safety was not a consideration, so PAY ATTENTION to the hazards of what you are doing! Wear safety goggles and gloves. Don't be stupid--YOU are supposed to be the adult here!
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