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Bah.
Those are cute, friendly switches.
Time for the grown-up stuff: How about some arc-suppressing actuator-driven disconnect armatures used to de-energize transmission lines in the 115-1000 KV range? Now we're talking UberSwitch. If you're not afraid of some really ugly mid-90s HTML, see some action shots. -
Re:The Problems with Tycho as an Impact Crater
Ok, I think I understand where you are coming from let me summarize:
Some craters are obviously created by impacts with meteors, comments or any other solid body.
There are some unusual features to some craters that can not be explained by our current theory of solid body impacts
Electrical phenomenon could explain these features
Is this what we are talking about? Do you agree with these points?Yeah, that's pretty close. Within certain filters, the rays that emanate from Aristarchus look like a Lichtenberg pattern -- which is the pattern that currents make when traveling through solids. The human eye can intuitively recognize this pattern as electrical. Compare these images of electrical Lichtenberg patterns
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Plasma-filament s.jpg
http://205.243.100.155/frames/lichtenbergs.html
http://205.243.100.155/photos/For_Sale/June04/3Inc hDisk/CenterLED1b.jpg
http://picasaweb.google.com/mgmirkin/LightningScar s/photo#5075225945259278338
http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2006/image06/060 309lightning.jpg
With Aristarchus
http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2006/image06/060 309aristarchus.jpg
With the supposedly enigmatic Martian spiders
http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2006/arch06/0607 26spiders2.htm
Titan
http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2005/arch05/0506 29titan-rilles.htm
With these (on Earth)
http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=-24.395158&lon=114. 997495&z=13.1&r=0&src=yh
http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=-25.659683&lon=140. 387453&z=15.4&r=0&src=ggl
http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=-25.655156&lon=140. 386295&z=18.2&r=0&src=ggl
http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=-23.742312&lon=140. 982472&z=16.2&r=0&src=ggl
http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=-27.863467&lon=141. 872015&z=15.2&r=0&src=ggl
These images are not proof of anything, but we can certainly be excused for using them as motivation for further investigation.
But Electric Universe Theory is not just about using the senses. There is very good reason to believe that electricity can flow through space. It is now accepted within astrophysics that space is not a vacuum, but rather filled with charged particles called plasma. In fact, matter within the plasma state represents 99.999% of all visible matter in the universe, and a gas can become electrified within the laboratory such that it becomes a plasma with only 1% ionization. That's not a whole l -
Re:The Problems with Tycho as an Impact Crater
Ok, I think I understand where you are coming from let me summarize:
Some craters are obviously created by impacts with meteors, comments or any other solid body.
There are some unusual features to some craters that can not be explained by our current theory of solid body impacts
Electrical phenomenon could explain these features
Is this what we are talking about? Do you agree with these points?Yeah, that's pretty close. Within certain filters, the rays that emanate from Aristarchus look like a Lichtenberg pattern -- which is the pattern that currents make when traveling through solids. The human eye can intuitively recognize this pattern as electrical. Compare these images of electrical Lichtenberg patterns
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Plasma-filament s.jpg
http://205.243.100.155/frames/lichtenbergs.html
http://205.243.100.155/photos/For_Sale/June04/3Inc hDisk/CenterLED1b.jpg
http://picasaweb.google.com/mgmirkin/LightningScar s/photo#5075225945259278338
http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2006/image06/060 309lightning.jpg
With Aristarchus
http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2006/image06/060 309aristarchus.jpg
With the supposedly enigmatic Martian spiders
http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2006/arch06/0607 26spiders2.htm
Titan
http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2005/arch05/0506 29titan-rilles.htm
With these (on Earth)
http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=-24.395158&lon=114. 997495&z=13.1&r=0&src=yh
http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=-25.659683&lon=140. 387453&z=15.4&r=0&src=ggl
http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=-25.655156&lon=140. 386295&z=18.2&r=0&src=ggl
http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=-23.742312&lon=140. 982472&z=16.2&r=0&src=ggl
http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=-27.863467&lon=141. 872015&z=15.2&r=0&src=ggl
These images are not proof of anything, but we can certainly be excused for using them as motivation for further investigation.
But Electric Universe Theory is not just about using the senses. There is very good reason to believe that electricity can flow through space. It is now accepted within astrophysics that space is not a vacuum, but rather filled with charged particles called plasma. In fact, matter within the plasma state represents 99.999% of all visible matter in the universe, and a gas can become electrified within the laboratory such that it becomes a plasma with only 1% ionization. That's not a whole l -
Pennies in a 100Kamp coil
How about shrinking them?
Oh, even better: melt down your pre-1982 pennies to make the copper shrink coil! -
Re:It costs money?Yeah, air is also a pretty good insulator until you start talking about really high voltages:
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Re:Drill Holes?Why do people try to do physical things to "destroy" magnetic media. You would think that Best Buy would have some software to erase the data (writing random 0/1's repeatedly). I suppose if they were replacing the hard drive Best Buy might have figured it wouldn't work, but at least they should have used a strong magnetic field.
Probably because an extremely strong magnetic field would be required to assure the job is done right. Drives actually reside beside very strong magnets with no problem. Drilling holes isn't a guarantee, either, one fo the best devices I have seen is one that actually bends the drive, platters and all.
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Some good arcsClick here for a page with some interesting arc videos. Be sure to watch the third one, "NEW MPEG of a 500 kV disconnect switch, one phase opens hot". Notice the scale of the arc from the guy in the bottom left of the video.
Your electrician dad will love them...
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Re:Wouldn't that be...You'd think it melt.
It probably did melt, but the important part was that it was also crushed by the immense magnetic field created. This is a bit like the effect created at http://205.243.100.155/frames/shrinkergallery.htm
l . Of course, the actual heating cannot be worked out as they do not specify the duration of the current. -
Exploding apples with capacitorsThis is a fun project. I was able to get about 18kA repeatably through a variety of objects from a small cap bank using low inductance leads and vacuum triggered spark gap. Lots of people do fun projects like this at home in their garages
For example
Bert Hickman's coin shrinking
Thaltech's capacitor experiments
Sam Barros's Power Labs page
Bill Beaty's webpage
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Re:Law Enforcement Ahoy....
If you like our £1 coins, you'll love our £2 coins.
Here's one that's been disassembled
http://205.243.100.155/frames/thumbs/2Pound_6300J2 a.jpg
As you can see, it has a silver centre and a golden outer ring. It weighs 12grams, about the weight of 2 x £1 coins, and measures about 2mm thick by 28mm diameter.
Chunky! -
Re:Sorry to rain on their parade...
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Re:Yes, but can you use it...
Heh, you should see what happens when you put aluminum cans in a high power magnetic induction device... Whew, found some images at TeslaMania for before and after...
When I was in school, the prof brought one of these into lab one day, and he was using it to railgun things across the room... They kept it locked up because some years before a student thought it would be funny to wrap a banana in foil and stick it into the machine, and it worked... picture a in your head a fine mist of burnt banana covering a good portion of a large freshman electronics lab, and that's close to the result. This site explains why with pictures. -
Re:Yes, but can you use it...
Heh, you should see what happens when you put aluminum cans in a high power magnetic induction device... Whew, found some images at TeslaMania for before and after...
When I was in school, the prof brought one of these into lab one day, and he was using it to railgun things across the room... They kept it locked up because some years before a student thought it would be funny to wrap a banana in foil and stick it into the machine, and it worked... picture a in your head a fine mist of burnt banana covering a good portion of a large freshman electronics lab, and that's close to the result. This site explains why with pictures.
