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Harvesting Capacitors for Backyard Munitions

Posted by michael on from the say-cheese dept.

Diabolus writes "This is the tale of a man, a bunch of disposable cameras, and his techniques for harvesting lots of capacitors to build a gauss gun. Insane..." A basic capacitor tutorial is probably in order.

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  1. Re:anybody else get this? by billstr78 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    To fend of Karma Whores and slow down Karma Racing probably.

    Ohh I hope I get +1 funny for this.....

  2. Re:Karma: Bad by brad3378 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    > Wait a minute...so, low karma is bad? God damnit, I've had it backwards until now.

    Nothing wrong with low karma...
    In fact I'm hoping this gets modded down so I can find out what ranks below "Karma: Excellent"

    Maybe it means the same thing as Karma=50 and I'm too dumb to know?

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  3. Re:Anti-slashdotting.... by Verizon+Guy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    USAToday.com got defaced with anti-Bush and anti-Christianity messages according to the Drudge Report. (Note: That page used to link to a report about the defacement, but now it seems like it was overwritten with some news from 2000... see drudgereport.com for more details, or let's hope they catch their mistake and re-update that link.)

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  4. Re:anybody else get this? by brad3378 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    > I'm pissed. I had 50 karma points and now I simply have "Excellent".

    Yup, Me too.
    Guess I might as well burn it all and start over.

    *** Sigh***

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  5. Re:anybody else get this? by stoolpigeon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Earlier today I was flopping back and forth between 50 and Excellent.

    Now it looks like Excellent again.

    I guess it doesn't really matter much but I would like to know what the new rules of the game are. (it is a game to me and I like playing- why take that away?)

    .

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  6. Re:anybody else get this? by brad3378 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    > Earlier today I was flopping back and forth between 50 and Excellent.
    Now it looks like Excellent again.

    I didn't notice any flip-flopping on mine, but I just got on.
    Right now I'm actually trying to burn karma (heaven forbid!) to find out what is below excellent. I bet everybody gets Excellent now - including the trolls. *** Sigh ***

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  7. Its starting! by m4g02 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Evil moderation is being used versus nice guys who noticed the new Karma crisis... We are lost, everything is lost.

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  8. Re:cheap yes, but practical? by Louis_Wu · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Karma: Excellent
    WTF?
    Does this get rid of the karma cap? Or just make it hard to tell when you've hit it? I had ~38, and I'm now "excellent", so if I hit 50, will I be "Most Excellent"? (And then George Carlin will appear in a telephone booth to take me through time. "Party on dude!")
  9. Re:cheap yes, but practical? by brad3378 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Thanks for the prompt response!
    I don't mind looking like a fool if I get a good answer :-)

    Now if only somebody could tell me why my +50 karma was replaced by "Karma: Excellent"

    Still no info on the Slashdot FAQs
    Anybody know?

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  10. Re:Is anyone else enjoying the irony? by billn · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Yer an Anonymous Coward, you'll take it and LIKE it. Besides, it doesn't affect you, now, does it?

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  11. Re:OK whats up with slashdot today by foniksonik · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Didn't notice. I on the other hand assume that most /.ers are using Mozilla (either Windows, Mac, Linux or *NIX version) with lovely tabbed browsing (to load random links in the background).

    If there is an optimal site for tabbed browsing it is /.

    Karma/Schmarma.... who cares, post something interesting and relevant, otherwise get a life.

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  12. and chemical engineers by rhadamanthus · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Use simple chemistry and a lot less effort!

    Fill a can with a little bit of water and set it over a flame until the water begins to boil. At this point most of the air has left the can and been replaced with water vapor. The can will not implode yet, since the water vapor exerts about an atm of pressure on the inside of the can. However, if you submerge the can at this point in an ice bath, the vapor rapidly condenses and the can implodes by itself. Quite neat. You can make cans "jump" several feet once placed in the ice bath...

    -----rhad

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  13. Re:OK whats up with slashdot today by jamie · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    "Today Jamie fucked up slashcode bad

    1) He has removed anti page widening code, so slashdot looks messed up in IE again. Good job screwing over most of your users (everyone knows most people who visit slashdot use IE, windows or mac versions)

    2) The karma system no longer uses numerical values... this means you don't know wether you are getting karma added or taken away besides a vague discription. Basically it means editors can abuse users they don't like easier."

    1) I fixed it about an hour after I broke it (before your comment was posted). Thanks for the vote of confidence though.

    2) See http://slashdot.org/~CmdrTaco/journal/9748

    and 3) this thread is clearly offtopic :)