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Aquarium Modcase

Posted by Hemos on from the getting-the-machine-running dept.

zeptic writes "How about an aquarium in your running computer? This casemod shows you how it's done. The cool pictures can be found on the same site page, and there is an English summary on the last page."

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  1. More living things in computer cases by mr.henry · · Score: 5, Informative

    This guy put an ant farm in his case.

  2. Think Geek by macragge · · Score: 5, Informative

    You can get the kit for this mod at Think Geek: http://www.thinkgeek.com/pcmods/cases/6151/

  3. Thinkgeek has been making these for ages by ithicine · · Score: 5, Informative

    Thinkgeek has been selling these very things for ages. Same case, same aquarium kit. Did he buy the thing from Thinkgeek? (apologies if it says in the article... my German is just a little rusty ;))

  4. Re:FAKE FISH by Pompatus · · Score: 4, Informative

    I believe this is what you are looking for. I thought about doing it, but $700 is a bit much for a computer case, no matter how cool it is.

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  5. Macquariums with real fish! by bhny · · Score: 5, Informative

    people have been doing this for years with old macs

  6. Re:What I would Actually like to see. by SubjunctiveSam · · Score: 3, Informative

    *Smacks head

    Oh yeah! You're right. That's Le Chatelier's principle. You're also right about hydronium. I always just pretended that water dissociated into hydrogen and hydroxide instead of hydronium and hydroxide because it made my stoichiometry easier.

    Yeah, it was Fritz Haber who had an excellent method of synthesizing ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen, and got a nobel prize for it even, IIRC. During world war one, he was a patriot and a tremendous asset to germany. He was instrumental in developing poison gas after the introduction of trench warfare. He saw Germany's defeat as a personal failure. He and his staff were world renowned and made many important contributions to physical chemistry. Here's the irony: when the 1930's roll around, the great patriot's contributions are forgotten, and suddenly he's just another "dirty Jew" to the Nazi party. Haber is forced to leave the country.

  7. Would ruin computer by bluGill · · Score: 4, Informative

    De-ionized water is one of the best solvents known to man. It will litterally eat everything out of the computer in effort to get some impurities.

    My uncle specalizes in water quality. He can get you water that measures 18 megaohms resistence. pour some directly from the pipe to a clean glass and you will measure no more than 12 megaohms. In the short time it takes to measure, water has absorbed that many impurities from the air.

    Take the pure water (actually de-ionized, impurities are allowed so long as they are not ions...) and and put it into a computer and it will remove the metal from the etching on the board to get some impurities.