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Tornado in a Can

Posted by michael on from the it's-a-little-breezy-in-here-honey dept.

geyser writes "What stuff matters more than a device that can tear things apart? Frank Polifka has a patent on his Windhexe device that creates a tornado force wind. Besides pulverizing concrete, it can pulverize small objects including jelly fish, and chicken feet without destroying the organic compounds. The chickens don't like it. Is this really a prototype Quake weapon? I could only find newspaper articles about the device. Has anyone seen it in action and can you give us a first hand report?"

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  1. Actually by Flamesplash · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Sounds like a good way to reduce land fill space. Just pulverize everything to the molecular level shake and let settle.

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  2. Re:They're going to feed us what?? by Znonymous+Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You know some guy down at the sewer treatment plant is saying "hey Larry.. I'll bet I could convince someone that its food.."

    Actually, treated sewage sludge is regularly used to grow vegetables.

    http://www.organicconsumers.org/Toxic/sewadge_sl ud ge.cfm

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  3. DISEASE VECTOR!!! by Ashurnasipal · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Ya know, a friend of mine died of Jakob-Kreutzfeld disease not too long ago.

    It's supposed that he got it from eating beef contaminated by BSE, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, which is a prion disease spread through the industry practice of feeding butcher's waste to cattle.

    Cannibalism is bad, people. Ref. Oliver Sach's description of diseases among the descendants of cannibals. It's an unhealthy feedback loop, that optimizes disease organisms.

    So, the poultry farmers have already spread salmonella through the entire US chicken industry with their unsound practices, now they want to do it better, cheaper, faster.

    So much for chicken soup as health food.