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My college rocketry team stumbled across these Pythom morons last year. It's so frustrating as California has strict laws for amateurs (which we follow) and then we have these absolute idiots managing to get away with this.
Video of one of their tests on Jan 12, 2021
Back in January 22, 2021, we marvelled at, "Witness the 1950's approach to safety, the fact that the engine is just a glorified flamethrower without proper combustion, and the atrocious cinematography" and speculated about what laws they were breaking. Some other funny things to consider is they released this video thinking it made them look good under the original title, "Hell Yeah!" Noteworthy too is loading homemade WFNA on a ladder with only a single respirator to be seen.
We also found: https://www.pythomspace.com/team/ were looking at the personnel of the time, they were all thrill-seekers. At that time, they had a single mechanical engineer and no chemists.
We have photos of them making the nitric acid. Witness the lack of PPE while working with concentrated sulfuric acid:
They got their initial 500k investment from a venture group known as "Space Cowboys". Yes, I am not making this up.
Afterwards, we forgot about them for a bit and I assumed they got shut down or something and then we get this latest video from March and it seems that they haven't learned a thing.
Edit: Some other things to note. The title of the video states it was in 2021, while the video card says 2020. I think it was actually 2021.
I don't hold this against them, but I think it's a little funny that they counted down 5...3...4...2...1...
Space Cowboys?! They had to rip off the title of an Eastwood/Lee Jones movie rather than come up with something original.