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Small Change, and Other Physics Fun
fishy jew writes "Ever want an easy way to make your 'small change' even smaller? Well, Bert Hickman has it - mix a home-brewed machine, 6.5 kiloJoules, and 100,000 Amps of current! On his website, he has descriptions and pictures of his many exploits with large quantities of electricity, notably including shrinking coins, building a Tesla coil, creating Lichtenberg figures (chaotic sculpture), and more! He has extensively outlined the equipment, procedure, and results for each of his experiments, and included many pretty pictures, too. Here are Google caches for when the site gets /.'ed: Main Page, Shrinking Coins, Tesla Coil, and Lichtenberg Figures."
Have redirected some of that current into getting a more powerful network connection.
Apparently the slashdot effect is a kind of physics fun he didn't account for...
Intolerance for ambiguity is the mark of the authoritarian personality.
If it gets enough hits, will it become small enough to fit in a blade system?
They should name these coins after George Bushes fiscal advisors.
If the dollar is an "I owe you nothing", then the Euro is a "Who owes you nothing." - Doug Casey
I see he is using IIS. Poor guy. I think if the number of connections > 3 then that irritating microsoft 403.9 page gets spat out. grr
bash: rtfm: command not found
With some slight modifications, this technique could be used to shrink the national debt.
Not sure, though I know for a fact that you can get in trouble for applying current to a monkey.
Please Contact Me me to discuss YOUR custom shrinking needs!
Ah, now this is a welcome relief from all those spammers who seem to think I always need to make things bigger!
Obligatory Simpsons Quote
[Body Guard #1] Hey boss, we were just thinkin' of you.
[Quimby] You idiots! You're fired!
[Body Guard #1] Oh yeah. Then who will take a bullet for you?
[Body Guard #2] Or hook your genitals up to a car battery?
[Quimby] I'll tell you who. This man! (points to Homer)
[Homer] Woohoo!
[Marge] Homer, didn't you hear...
[Homer] (Interrupting) I said Woohoo.
Frink: Nice try floyd, but you were designed for scrubbing, and scrubbing is what you shall do.
Right, so that Slashdot can Slashdot itself. Recursion, anyone?
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
Err, how exactly does one do that with a Tesla coil?
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Shock the employees at your ISP until they upgrade your services?
Or have you been playing too much Starcraft?
We've even Slashdotted the pics on the cached sites! Looks like the quarters aren't the only thing being crushed. I'm sure the webservers have imploded by now...
What kind of party are those?
Well, did it start out as a small site, or did Bert Hickman shrink it?
If he lives near las vegas, it might explain the mysterious EMP that in theory caused a bunch of car keys and other alarms to stop working. In any case, I hope his neighbors arn't trying to use WiFi to connect two computers, cause his work will probably knock anything off. Forget about FCC certification on his equipment...
I'm happy to see the site finally get the news for nerds treatment it deserves
:-)
Yeah! That's even got a catchy ring to it... From now on, when we want to bring a site to its knees, we'll give it the news for nerds treatment.
Great cynicism, but that's not a very profitable venture. How many shrunken coins do you have to sell in order to replace your smoldering heap of a web server?
Interesting idea... So, the article claims that it takes 100 kiloamps of current to shrink a coin. So, let's just assume that the process is reversible and by finding a way to enlarge a small coin, you would actually be generating large amounts of current, okay?
Now, let's throw your genitals into the mix. We'll take your small, unused organ and hook it up to the power grid. Then, we'll order some penis enlargement pills and feed them to you in mass quantities. Step 3: profit from selling the energy back to the power company!
Surprisingly few seeing that, contrary to popular slashdot belief, web servers don't actually burn.
You are in a twisty maze of processor lines, all alike.
There is a lot of hype here.
Obviously the type of party slshdotters go to and actually associate with others.
Oh, yeah? Then what's this?
How can we continue to believe in a just universe and freedom to eat crackers if we have no ale?
I salute you. You have taken Karma whoredom to a new level. You just got a 5 Score for posting links to your own week-old slashdot posts.
LK
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
Oh? I beg to differ.
I've made the same complaint to my boss before, but he said it wouldn't make any difference since my project funds would not cover the flux capacitor, let alone a car that can handle 88 mph. He said he might consider extending the funds if I made a Mr. Fusion that worked on bananas and flat beer (I happen to work in a plasma physics/fusion lab).
But at least when we turn it up into the 8 kV range, we can brag about having a machine output a million horsepower (even if it is for 10-20 microseconds).
Finally, someone who can correct the historical accident that nickels are larger than dimes!!
Now, if only he could find a way to GROW money... or would that merely consist of nickel-and-diming people to death?
Weeks of coding saves hours of planning.
Five minutes of looking proves to me that Slashdot's search engine is basically worthless. My memory's not *that* good....
This post is a dupe. I remember seeing an interesting slashdot story, God knows when, and I looked over both the Powerlabs and Teslamania websites. I vividly remember the (now slashdotted to hell) shrunken coins. But, then again, if you're only 18 minutes old, you wouldn't know that, now would you?
The more I read Slashdot, the more I feel like some new-age Methuselah in a sci-fi story, where all those around me are younger, and their 80 year lifespans appear like those of a fly.
Clemmitt
sigfault (core dumped)
Actually, though, I have seen his page before. really cool toys, but strikes me as something most of us would probably not want to play with.
I had a electrical engineering roommate in college that used to slice beer cans in half with a powerful electric arc.
He gave it up after a particularly drunk sorority girl nearly killed herself by almost falling into the device.
As I recall... he ended up getting laid after he explained the danger of the whole situation.