Dry Ice Bomb

I can't believe that tomorrow is the last day of S.C.O.R.E.! I had a very long day today and worked from 9AM to 5AM  in order to try to get as much of my last experiment done as possible. Everything was running smoothly until I ran my gel, only to see that some of the DNA had not been cut during my digests. We ran another gel with separate enzymes to see if there was a problem and things continued to look fishy in certain areas so instead of taking any more risks, Jennifer and I decided that tomorrow we are going to retransform all of my mini-preps I did in my previous round. Since I had to run two gels today I had a lot of down time. Me and the other people within my bay were just sitting around talking about random topics such as what the meaning of science is and other broad questions. Suddenly Tim asked me if I knew what a "dry ice bomb" was. Me being the less-experienced scientist that I am, of course had no idea. I soon learned that a dry ice bomb is simply a piece of dry ice put into a normal 1.5mL microcentrifuge tube, as the ice turns into gas the pressure build up inside the tube until it pops open. Tim and Jennifer told me these are commonly made and rolled under lab benches of unsuspecting scientists to give them a scare while they're working. I was also very clearly warned never to use glass tubes or screw caps in the making of a dry ice bomb...for obvious reasons. It was nice to just goof of for once and take a break from all the science. I really can not believe that tomorrow is my last day! :(