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Exceptionally Unexceptional Quickies
Starting the show off with some cool do-it-yourselfer sorta projects:
Diederik Meijer submitted the
The Silicon Graphics Refrigerator Project
(or: How To Turn a $175.000 High-End SGI Challenge DM Server into a Fridge).
Next up, mdaughtrey built a Mechanical Hit Counter
jrbx1 sent us a link to an in-dash Atari 2600. Even coolor is that the dash its in is attached to a 1978 volkswagon ;)
rednax sent us a review of a kit for adding neon to your PC. If you're not skilled enough to hack how it works, at least you can pretend you're cool and hack how it looks!
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Nothing is more dangerous then
glewtion's link to a story about
a sculpture in england that that worries people since the heat it generates cook fry
a bird mid-air. Oh, and I lied: even more dangerous then art is
amasci's link to making pet ball-lightning. In
your microwave, duh.
If you've got some spare time,
MxTxL submitted something that we've been seeing more of, email games. This one is battlemail, which apparently is glorified addictive paper rock scissors.
f you were an Anime character, here's some helpful hints to keep in mind.
Hieronymus Coward sent us a bit about The Drew Carrey Show featuring a 2 minute segment based on the sims. I wonder if they will use the vibromatic bed, actually the next expansion comes out soon (today?) so I probably am gonna have
to resurrect my neighborhood sometime soon.
Thirsty?
Dipfan sent in a story about Coke wanting to put soda fountain style
coke in every house right next to the water dispenser.
Got Carbonated Milk?
Finally for a little random product plugging,
Rustin H. Wright found a place selling penguin crossing signs.
Finally,
anotherone noted that you can use Google in full swedish bork bork chef glory.
That thing was pretty awesome! Somebody pop that link back up.
In A.D. 2001
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Bankruptcy was beginning
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CmdrTaco: What happen ?
CowboyKneel: Somebody set up us the economy
CowboyKneel: We get financial report
CmdrTaco: What !
CowboyKneel: Main screen turn on
CmdrTaco: It's You !!
Creditor: How are you gentlemen !!
Creditor: All your linux server are belong to us
Creditor: You are on the way to chapter 11
CmdrTaco: What you say !!
Creditor: You have no chance to survive sell your stock
Creditor: HA HA HA HA
CowboyKneel: Taco!
CmdrTaco: Sell off every 'thing'
CmdrTaco: I know what I doing
CmdrTaco: Sell 'thing'
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Vices - what I lack in originality, I make up for in volume.
They described carbonated milk was needed, because milk is no longer popular, or uncool. Milk? Are we raising a boneless generation of kids who have no taste? Milk is an essential ingredient that adds flavor to breads, butter for potatoes, etc.
Why are we giving up on this wonderful juice fresh from the cow's breasts? Are we on the way to consuming sythetic foods?
This proves I am getting a top of the line education at Ohio State.
Physics in a Microwave Oven
Back home, many an RPS legend has been born out of Roshambo Rampage.
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Have them get back to me when they can mix Bacardi in, too.
air and light and time and space
I have been wanting coke on tap in my house for years!! Send it on over!
Oh, and the SGI servers are "Challenged" because they don't have graphics.
A well-crafted lie appears unquestionable - Dama Mahaleo
Another shining example of what too much slashdot can do to a mind...
I adblock all animated gifs.
Blessed be the prime numbered slashdotters
Did anybody notice that that microwave plasmoid cooks up nitrous oxide?
-perdida
Goat sex free since 2001
--brian
...lets make that mech hit counter spin.
on three...
one...
two....
Buckets,
pompomtom
Buckets,
pompomtom
"There's an exception to every rule. Except for some rules"
Is this sort of like stir-frying?
I thought the song went "riff-raff , street rat"? :)
Can you see Iron City here?
You know you guys could at least goto the pages and read them before you post these things. For example, the mechanical hit counter. it says right on the guys page that he only has a 144k DSL link. Now how in the name of jebus do you expect his link to support that?
Daft says: "Teenagers do like to sit down and chat about intelligent things and they need to have somewhere to do that, so it came from that idea.
Right, teenagers talking about intelligent things. Those brits sure are funny.
-- Nerds on toast in the new millenium
Mechanical Counter Mirror Link
http://www.codewolf.com - Just good stuff to waste time
We're just providing a free "durability test" for the hit counter.
Slashdot: Open Source, Closed Minds.
From that page: The video window is updated every 5 seconds so chances are you'll see more than one count if other people are connected. I don't know how many that'll be though since this server is only on a 144K DSL link (thanks Verizon...not).
Um..144K? Hmm, was putting this page on slashdot such a great idea?
Swedish Chef translator here!!!!
I adblock all animated gifs.
Blessed be the prime numbered slashdotters
My "uncle Tom" returned from Japan a few years back with a can of "MILK SODA"... sounded disgusting, tasted great. Called "Calpis" (Official Site (Japanese), English Fan Site). It used to come in a white, red and blue slim-n-tall can. 'Wonder if the yanks came up with this "E-Moo" on there own...
People were so interested in making their own pet plasmoids, they they have succeed in what I believe is the biggest case of the Slashdot Effect ever - WE'VE SLASHDOTTED MEMBERS.NBCI.COM!
I can't be karma whoring - I've already hit 50!
SIG: HUP
The direct link to the site is here. It is called the Sky Mirror. They got photos and everything.
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
His name is Douglas Daft.
Douglas... DAFT .
Heh.
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Geez, I hope this guy's house doesn't light on fire due to the slashdot effect...
We can search google using Swedish chef talk. Yet no one can parse the CmdrTaco speak mentioning all these quickies.
from the SGI Refrigerator guy: ;-))
>>>The LED's should have been labelled GNDN* but instead I tell people the red led starts flashing when the beer supply runs low.
Well, why didn't he rig up a sensor and make that happen? If you're going to use advanced technology, really use it!
Silly Rabbit, sigs are for kids.
well thats gone from 227 hits to a 6 digit number in the past few min... who else has been sitting there ping flooding it?
anyone take a look at today's fortune at the bottom of the page?
Calpis is sold in your finer asian shops through out America. ;)
not to be confused with "Cow-piss", which is sold in you not so fine shops.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
If we drink carbonated milk, wouldn't we be getting and preventing osteoporosis at the same time???
El Karma: excelente(principalmente la suma de moderación hecha a los comentarios de los usuarios)
here's the ball lightning page without the nasty flashing ad frame
Scroll to the bottom of the page.
Image is everything...
Hey man! Lighten up. I'd say that anyone with half a wit would envy Sweden. So we have fun with the Swedish Chef. He was a muppet! Geez. If there were abundant jobs there I'd say many /. readers would rather live in Sweden than in the US. I know I would.
Someone's been watching Aladdin, and not listening to the words...
In eastern, it will probably at 9 EST, and mountain, 7, and pacific, 8, if i was to guess.
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We're going to melt the thing, cut it out guys. :-)
/. effect. Grim or cool? I can't decide.
First house fire caused by the
sig fault
e-Moo - a drink for children of an Internet age - initially will be sold in three flavors: Orange Creamsicle, Bubble Gum and Chocolate Raspberry, which will marketed as an alternative for adults. In waiting, are Cookies and Cream and Fudge Brownie if e-Moo is successful.
Mother of all that's holy...I am going to have to walk past Buble Gum flavored Milk in the supermarket, and not retch. As if life wasn't challenging enough.
Also, it looks as if the adult flavor is Chocolate Raspberry. Words cannot express my utter revulsion at the concept. Maybe I'm not adult enough (I'm 25), or maybe by adult they mean every 13 year old who thinks they're an adult (hence I'm too adult).
Either way, I think I'll stick to Coke. At least that way I know I'm being unhealthy, and am not trying to fool myself.
-Vess
I just got the webcam to update the picture and it was up to 303,129 -- attached to the top was a little sign saying "Hellooooo Slashdot!"
Geez -- seems pretty happy for a guy who now knows that he wont have internet access until sometime tomorrow.. =)
You missed the most important line, the one dealing with justice. But what sort of justice is appropriate?
Peace,
Amit
ICQ 77863057
[o]_O
...is that anything like "opium den"?
Moderators: read the article before your greasy little trigger fingers mark this Off-Topic.
Raises some very interesting issues.
:)
1. The Japanese have had carbonated milk drinks for some time. (And my, do they taste strange or what).
2. Carbonation creates carbolic acid. Mixed with a alkaline (which is what milk generally is), is going to create some very weird effects.
3. Saying that milk is outright 'good for you' is just plain irresponsible. Milk contains fat, cholesterol, and lactose, all of which are bad for you in sufficient enough quantities. (But see note below)
4. They're adding 'crystalline fructose', which is just another way of saying 'sugar' without saying 'Sugar'. Fructose is a simpler carbohydrate than sucrose (which is a fructose/glucose pair), and therefore even more easily absorbed by the digestive system, and turned into fat. We should be aiming for more comples carbohydrates, not simpler.
However:
1. It still sounds like a better drink than the soda-pop crap. But, if you want refreshment, drink water. We all need to drink more water. (Apols to those in Dallas, your water sucks, you might as well drink petrol
Because the number of 1978 volkswaggons is on the decline, while the number of gas guzzling SUV's has been o na steep incline.
And I doubt that Explorers, Bronco's, Expeditions, Range Rovers, Land Rovers, etc. etc. etc. get even near 30 mpg... at least, the expedition my boss had hovered around 14 miles per gallon...
If teens go for the kind of stuff the coke folks are talking about, the human race is in worse shape than I was giving it credit for. A coke tap in the house is a horrible idea.
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I wouldn't mind trying that e-milk er what ever it called on my cereal that would be kinda cool. Maybe it will start an urban legand about milk on snap crackle and pop(rice cripsies) cereal. "OH MY GOD HE HAD MILK ON THAT!"
Though I think that some other contries have a kind of carbonated milk allready. My old math teacher had some from some Asian country I think.(He spent more time talking about it then teaching us fucking bastered ruined my life but the milk and squid was good;)
-What? E-Moo is that some kinda mailing thing???
A couple years ago, a couple of my friends in the dorm came up with the same brilliant idea (I imagine one of them, LordSigh (or is he LordFile on here?) will comment on it as soon as he sees it too) and actually *DID* it...
Basically, what they did was get some powdered milk--you know, you have to add water to it to make it--and instead of using regular water, they used seltzer water. Apparently, the results were NASSSS TEEEEEEEEE, so be careful. Also, there was some question about whether the carbon dioxide would react with the milk and result in lumps of calcium carbonate; not sure what became of that, and I always hated chemistry anyway...
I must say that I think the "Coke Space" idea is a great one. Teenagers do indeed need a place to hang out, and restaraunts, etc., do not fit the bill because you get nudged out after a meal. Libraries require quietude. Parks, okay, but, not enough facilities. If done right (say, w/ computers and books), the "Coke Space" idea could really fly.
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In the downtown area of the pseudo-town of Silver Spring, MD (it's sort of spread out all over the place), the penguin is kind of an unofficial mascot. There is a mural outside the Metro station which shows a typical Metro train populated by penguins instead of humans. What's really relevant here is that a couple of the "Pedestrian X-ing" signs in the city show a male figure, a female figure, a child figure and, yes, a penguin (emperor?) crossing the street.
-J
Karma: T-rexcellent.
check out the webcam
Someday, we'll look back on this, laugh nervously and change the subject.
I also used terminal emulation software on my HP48SX calculator to replace one of the terminals and enter a command to slew the telescope - hence I claim that the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory is the world's largest and most expensive peripheral to a pocket calculator.
(JCMT next door is bigger - 15m - but has a nifty shield to prevent the sunlight problem, so they get to observe during the day. It isn't just frying the focal point that is a problem - uneven heating warps the dish beyond the fraction of a millimeter tolerence required for using the telescope.)
Quattuor res in hoc mundo sanctae sunt: libri, liberi, libertas et liberalitas.
For the people who just have a little webserver on their DSL or cable modem that only maybe gets two or three hits a day, this would be a great little thing to place on top of your monitor or server. While it's a cool idea to have a webcam pointed at it, I'd rather just have one on top of my monitor so I can see a number roll over when someone visits my website.
I was thinking of doing something similar, just via a diffrent control method. I was going to embed a standard text counter into the main page, and then write a simple cgi script to take the number and output it on the serial port, where it could be interpreted by some kind of simple logic on a PIC Microcontroller, which could power a set of segmented LEDs or an LCD display.
Hmm.. I just may do that.
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Okay, I give up !
Can anyone please explain me why these articles got rejected ?
Why I post it to an article that is about strange "rebuilds" of computers ?
Because my article (number 3 in the list) I posted yesterday would have fittet exactly in here.
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There is also articles on
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AmigaORG
Why does such a popular OpenSource site silence down a post about an OpenSource BIOS ? I mean, yes, there has been some stuff about OpenSource BIOS. But the number of OpenSource BIOS is so small, that any news is good news.
There is much more OpenSource OS than is OpenSource BIOS, so any chance is a big chance.
Why not post the security hole in PGP ? (while advertising T-Shirts ironically saying "I read your email" huahuuahahahaha.)
I give up., I will monitor any reaction, and then I might erase my Slashdor account (have to sleep over it). I get a form letter when contacting the webmaster. I get articles rejected (look at these pics above...I mean, this is really cool ! Much more "Geek" than a lame T-Shirt saying: "You suck!" in binary digits) I get the feeling what else might be withheld from us. Not by purpose, but...
Hey, anyone ever considered putting up a site, that shows all articles being rejected by the Slashdot Heinis ? Count me in ;-)
Hello?? Fred?! Is this you?
Sources
1. Google.com When I searched for "bill gates nazi", I was hoping to find the rather amusing and widely distributed illustration in which Bill Gates' (the rich white guy) head had been superimposed upon Adolf Hitler's body. Instead, I found the photographic composition linked to above, which I think better fits my description of Gates as a "geek god".
2. Bill's Gates. The proprieter of this fine establishment (which sells a fine assortment of fences, gates, and vibrating plastic dildoes) provided a very interesting anecdote about his dog, Muffy. He also provided a delicious Red Bull/Citron cocktail, which proved essential in completing this research paper.
3. Slashdot.org. Specifically, the post to which I am responding, which provided the picture of the other Mr Gates, whom I think bears resemblence to the character "Bubba" from Forrest Gump.
A copy of this paper may be downloaded in PDF format for a small fee at this address.
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I like to watch.
Laverne was mixing Milk and Pepsi on the Laverne and Shirley show over 20 years ago!
As for me, mother's breast milk stright from the source is the best way to go!
Those Japanese are out to pollute our precious bodily fluids. Mandrake, they'll stop at nothing until they have contaminated every last American...
Anyway, the MHC made it "hit home" for the first time how truly powerful Slashdot's influence really is. We all know that Slashdot readers can take down a webserver within minutes, but something about seeing the MHC go up 100 hits every five seconds at 12AM EST is really awe-inspiring.
They don't call it SlashDDoS for nothing. :-)
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Someone I know has taken over the Bloodpit play by mail game. This has been going on for a really long time now, dating to before people had email and it really was play by mail. I suggest if you're into this kind of thing, or want to give it a try, try out bloodpit.
A buddy of mine was partying with a young punk who knew absolutely nothing about drinking. They had a fifth of vodka and some Country Time to mix it with but no ice. The punk was too impatient to wait for the Country Time to chill in the fridge so my friend jokingly said, "There's some chocolate milk in here." "Well alright, I'll use that." replied the moron. "You don't understand, I'm just kidding.", said my friend. "I don't care, I just wanna get fucked up......Say! This stuff is pretty good!!!!" enthused the idiot. The dumbass puked all over himself twenty minutes later.
The gas is brown so it's not nitrous oxide(N2O) it's nitrogen dioxide (NO2). looks like there might be enough in that fishbowl to make that whippet your last.
- "Hear that?! The percolations are imminent! Cease your ingress!"
Many cafes still serve "French sodas" which are essentially milk, carbonated water, and a flavoring syrup. Great stuff. My favorite is a Hazelnut French soda. In fact, the Borders bookstore near me serves them, although they have the annoying habit of using Sprite instead of keeping plain carbonated water on tap.
;-) From what I hear, it's popular with some of the SCA type people. But personally, I prefer to brew mead instead. Yummy.
For a truly strange twist on milk, try making Koumiss (aka kumis, kumiss, or koumis). The Mongols used to make it by filling an animal stomach or bladder with mare's milk, hanging it outside the tent, and allowing it to ferment for up to a month or so. You can make a safer approximation by taking a gallon of 1% pasteurized cow milk, adding a few drops of Lactaid to break down the lactose into something standard brewing yeast can actually convert to alcohol, and a pinch of brewing yeast, and letting it ferment for 2 days. It's not only alcoholic by that point, but also quite fizzy thanks to all the CO2 that's a by-product of the yeast's activities. The alcohol inhibits the milk from souring. It tastes...interesting. Just picture mixing one part Coors Original with two parts milk, and then dropping in an Alka Seltzer. Interesting taste, indeed.
"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws."--Tacitus, *The Annals*
Let's see, the Atari 2600 has been a game console, a portable game console, and now a dashboard game console.
What I want to know is, when is someone going to turn it into a web server?
The best way to stop this waste of time, is to introduce this:
;)
Download and compile this simple C program: bm.C.
Have fun kids!
The 1978 VW probably gets better gas mileage than most new SUVs and if properly maintained, should pass inspections.
Some old cars can get good fuel economy. I was in Sam's Club the other day and for some reason a 'coffee-table' type book about cars of the 1970s caught my eye. It contained ads, magazine reviews, and other stuff for just about every model of car sold in the US during the 70s. While flipping through it, I came upon an ad for a Datsun B210 hatchback. It had an EPA highway rating of 40mpg. Thirty years later, there are only a few cars that can beat that. My Mistubishi econo box doesn't and most cars I've looked at (w/ the exception of VW diesels) average in the high 20s. Most SUV owners can probably only dream of getting 20mpg.
the good ground has been paved over by suicidal maniacs
The site on the ball lightning seems to indicate that you need a spherical container. I did it with a drinking glass and it worked just fine, my plasmoids where stable for about 1-2 seconds. Very fun, and definitely away to scare my significant other out of her wits. (She followed me into the kitchen when I took a cork and a match and watched in horror)
Anyway, happy ball lightning!
-Bob the pngwen
I am the penguin that codes in the night.
I believe that some Europeans use the period as we use the comma... I mean, he consistently uses amounts like X.000 , and there's no reason that I can see to use said amounts if that was a 'traditional' period, used to denote decimal places... after all, who lists prices to a tenth of a cent?
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There's a lot more to it than that to ensure quality and it has to be a sealed unit so people can't alter the formula to destroy the value of the brand," he said.
;) But there's no room to mix the good rum into the mix. Just make sure it's 151.
In other words, the mix will be delivered via I.V. drips. Come to think of it, that's not a bad idea.
And if Coke's so worried about their brand, they can hire the MPAA's legal team for the low, low cost of free syrup, to go bust those evil Coke Hackers that violate their intellectual property with rum.
The American Dream went to hell in a handbasket when someone decided that "The Customer" was King, and the customer beli
My review of the goofy PC neon kit also includes a frickin' plasma ball.
The way I'm told Nuclear Reactors work is the Uranium or whatever heats the water which makes steam, which turns the turbines, right? Correct me if I'm wrong...
Who says that about ten of these babies couldn't boil a whole lot of water?
Yes, there are a whole lot of details to work out, but that's why I'm not an engineer... someone take this idea and run with it already... free power is good power.
Sig missing. Reward.
Carbolic acid is phenol. Nasty stuff. (Substitute OH for H on benzene)
I think you mean carbonic acid, the stuff that eats limestone.
ftp://de.aminet.net/pub/aminet/pix/misc/Hipsamtab1 .jpg
great.
fun.
beautiful.
Hey! That plasomid making thiny makes N2O! Who needs whipped cream?
Is anyone measuring any statistics on how many counts/min that counter is going through? :)
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1) How expensive was it to make this mirror?
2) How much energy does this collect/generate?
3) Can this be used to power a electricity-generating turbine?
4) If so, why are we even putzing around with solar cells?
It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
Personally, I would welcome Coca Cola to install a soda fountain in my house.
;-)
Yup, put in a CO2 line, tubing, chiller and dispenser in the kitchen. Might as well have one for the bar downstairs as well.
Then I'll have the ultimate way to dispense my craft (home) brewed beer.
And have a Coke now and then just so I don't violate the TOS agreements
Mmmm...pale ale on tap. I can taste it now....
Clearly a place where you can buy hard drugs, tooth rotting soft drinks and small lumps of coal.
The sad thing is, teens are unsophisticated enough that they won't realise that this is marketing produced by exectly the older generation that it's pretending to rebel against.
And soda fountains in the house? Wow, the guy has reinvented Soda-Stream but with a water inlet on the side. I think you used to be able to get coke syrup for those as well.
Rich
One wonders if the banner ads went up only to reap the slashdot effect...
This is a manual virus. Copy it to your sig and help me spread!
Dabney house at Caltech used to have (perhaps still has) a parabolic mirror from an old telescope. About 5 feet across. A 2x4 at the focal point at noon would burst into flames immediately. It could melt brick (in a spot about the size of a quarter).
;)
Very, very dangerous, because you can't see the focal point. If left unattended, people could easily be permanently scarred, or blinded.
It really gives you appriciation for the energy in sunlight. Makes you want to wear long sleves and sun screen all the time. Maybe stay inside.
The SGI fridge is just perfect... the question is, can you keep a Macquarium on top of it or does it get too hot in the back?
The Coke tap... hmm. First off, I'd buy one as long as I could have my choice of syrups (or perhaps make my own?). Second, carbonated water through pipes is a freakin' silly idea. That's why they have CO2 canisters.
The rest I haven't looked at yet.
well, after speaking with the battlemail folks (due to some fun i had with their game) it turns out the basis was exactly what i'd been saying for a long time...paper-rock-scissors. anyway on to the "exploit:"
when you register for the battlemail game you enter your username and e-mail address you want challenges to be sent to, nothing more. so, if you get bored and wanna be up near the top, go surf their web forums, pick a few random e-mails, check for the usernam they fight with in the "league tables" and then sign up as them. send yourself a few hundred/thousand challenges, all using the same combination of attacks and blocks. then, add/remove the software and sign up as yourself. hell, tell them your name is r0y or b0b, they'll love you for that (and wombferret will e-mail me again...asking me to stop). anyway, fight all of the challenges, win perfectly and beat out the top contenders and their stupid little clans (play with spycho30's head, he's fun). and regardless of what anyone on that board tells you, yes...i was the first one to figure that out (it was hard too...took all of about 30 seconds). have fun at their expense, i keep telling them they take it all waaaaay too seriously...just remember to say r0y or b0b sent you.
Nitrous Oxide is N2O, the plasmoid in the microwave produce NO2, or nitrogen oxide. Feel free to inhale this gas, but you won't get the effect you were expecting :-)
I do not deploy Linux. Ever.
Sprinkle salt on it to create blazing yellow/orange sodium light.
Hey, the previous link mentions that they drilled a 3/4" hole in the top of the uWave oven and inserted a vid cam. I wonder if a "ball lightning" can exit through such a hole and fly around the room? However, these do seem to vanish instantly when you cut power to the oven. I guess the hole needs to be LARGER... and then make an external chamber from metal screening!
I see where an Igor would be useful in performing such experiments. Have HIM work with the equipment while the mad doctor stays way over here and turns on the big switch.
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The Cray I's cooling system had a void in it that just happened to be the size of a six-pack. The amount of time it took to shut it down, do a part replacement, bring it back up, and check it out, just happened to be the amount of time it took to bring a six-pack from room temperature to "AHHhhh..." temperature.
The engineers insist this was not deliberate.
The FE's really didn't care whether it was deliberate or not. But if it really WAS deliberate then it was very thoughtful of the engineers to build in such a moralle-booster for the field staff.
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
These are a bit more involved than uWave oven tricks since you'd need to build (buy?) a small Tesla coil. Links to a number of schematics and projects are here:
For those who haven't tried all the microwave oven tricks yet, definitely try cooking a light bulb. Clear unfrosted 'decorator' bulbs are best. Colored plasma flames! Melting iron filament supports! Beware, it IS possible to explode a bulb if you apply power for more than about five seconds. They don't really "explode", instead I think the red-hot tungsten support wires crack the glass, and the bulb goes poof all over the oven. (Me, I have a couple of huge old 'experiment' ovens bought for $5 at garage sales.)((((((((((((( ( ( ( (o) ) ) ) )))))))))))))
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The "oops, we fried you" phenomenon of the Sky Mirror is a well-known problem for people constructing solar collectors. They "work" when partially constructed - the amount of heat collected is proportional to the amount of reflective surface that is already installed. They also "work" when not pointed directly at the sun - the focus is just off-center and slightly diffuse. A common accident is to be constructing one outdoors and lean through the effective focus while reaching in to install another segment. Easy way to burn out your eyes, fry your face, and/or set your hair on fire.
But it works for sound, too.
Story is there was a building in the industrial park near one of O'hare Airport's runways. The front door was in the middle of the symmetrical building. More than one person died of a "heart attack" at a particular spot on the runway.
Somebody got to thinking and realized that the front of the building was a parabola, pointed at the runway, and the magic spot on the sidewalk was the focus of the parabola. If you happened to be standing there when a jet on takeoff went by with engines at full thrust, all of the kilowatts of sound that hit the front of the building would be focused on you for an appreciable fraction of a second. Very much like being at the center of a bomb.
Oops!
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
The front door was in the middle of the symmetrical building. More than one person died of a "heart attack" at a particular spot on the runway.
Oops. I meant "at a particular spot on the walkway to the building's door.
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
So does this mean that everything else on his 'antigrav' website must be valid? By Debunkers' logic yes, since they believe that the truth of any detail must apply to the whole (i.e. if one small section is truth/garbage, the WHOLE WEBSITE must be truth/garbage as well.)
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Some people have asked why we don't generate energy with one of those things. Well, we don't use a single parabolic mirror, because it is hard to build a very large one. Instead, we use multiple mirrors all angled toward a focal point, like this:
Solar Power Tower
While the website says that it is in use, the last few times I have driven by on (on my way to my parents house in Bako), it hasn't been exceptionally bright. I remember it in the late 80's, early 90's, the top of the tower looked like it was white hot (at the focus), and when they would move the mirrors away, above the tower, you could "see" a spot of "boiling" air - it looked like the wavyness you see rippling off a hot car, from the heat refraction, but hovering at a point in mid-air. Very impressive shit.
That's not all, though - want to build such a device yourself, for cooking perhaps? Check this...
Still not enough? Want to build a "real" solar furnace?
Go here!
Have fun, and don't burn yourself!
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Hate to reply to myself:
DOEs Concentrating Solar Power Program
More info on Solar 2
Hmm, maybe it is still operating, and I haven't passed by on the right days?
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Now I came across your name the third time on the net !
First time was on Aminet ;-) I have some of your Gfx installed
on my local disk. I do not use them, but they are so
nice, that I never could erase them. (they're in
my brush: dir ;-))
You still own an Amiga ?
amixHello?? Fred?! Is this you?