Popular Science not previewing the swears inserted into this video? Shame on you. This can easily be accessed by a student in a school setting. Are you people out of your mind?

Ricky Neal,

Grade 6 Science Teacher

First off, if your grade six students are looking up how to make home made plasma, I think swearing is the least of your concerns.

Secondly, if you think your sixth graders haven't heard any of those words you're deluded.

Thirdly this is a rare chance to actually SEE some plasma. It's rather cool really. They should do this as an experiment in schools (in controlled conditions of course).

They tell us not to do it, but how many of us are going to remember to add a bag of grapes onto their grocery list?

J-Man, and others. If you think that simply because young children may have heard gutter talk elsewhere makes it okay for PopSci to post it on their website, you are an incredible jerk. I agree with Teacher Ricky Neal: Shame on Popular Science and shame on you, J-Man, for not recognizing a reputable magazine's utter lack of sense or sensibility.

I agree with J-man. And Gino, who calls someone a jerk nowadays douchebag?

How lude of you, Ben Dover.

I think somewhere the teacher is softly crying that his opinion isn't shared and that Ben Dover's spelling reflects his simple nature.

So I tried this at home before I read this article, the good news, my micro and I are still standing. Want more fun, I was part of the Tesla club at my school and you can do the same thing by creating a half-wave antenna to catch the waves and some pencil lead (carbon as in the grape skin) as the tip to toss up the same kind of plasma. Want some extra fun, you can catch the plasma balls in glass (prob. want to use pirex) and you can watch them burn - just invert a glass or something over the grape..... er don't try this at home...