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Ladies and Gentlemen Allow Me to Introduce the Cat Car
Kelmar writes "CNN is running a story about how a German inventor has found a way to power a car using dead cats. Yes you read that right. According to the inventor he can produce the biodiesel fuel at the cost of about $0.30 (US) per liter. Needless to say many animal rights activists are upset by this development, and some are saying that it is illegal to use animals for this purpose in Germany."
- Greg
Start a happiness pandemic
Cue joke about "CATalytic converters"...
Mind you, the Brits had a car called a Morris Minor. It's nickname was the "moggie". Is this the same thing?
Does anyone know if Germany has any WMDs it needs to be liberated of? If not, when's the soonest the American government can give it some so they can invade?
I know I'll get modded down for this, it was a joke. But then again some people have had their sense of humour surgically removed.
A use for a cat? Who could have imagined it?
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
That nice purring sound of the engine is strictly no coincidence.
ISO certified == THX certified
"Everytime you masturbate, God kills a kitten."
Woohoo! We can now masturbate AND power our car with the results!
*grabs a box of tissues*
...woulld be pleased.
... to the phrase "catalytic converter".
I thought it said "a cost of about $0.30 per litter". And I wondered who would be cruel enough to be selling cat litters for fuel.
but does it require the use of a catalytic converter to run properly, or are unconverted cats okay? *hides
When the posters fear their moderators, there is tyranny; when the moderators fears the posters, there is liberty.
Can the process be used to produce energy once for each of a cat's nine lives? If so, it should be popular with environmentalists.
input to 'cat' produces equal amounts of output with 100% efficiency. I've never had any dropped ASCII characters when using cat.
animal rights activists shush, this process apparently involves dead animals, so if they're dead, what will you be doing about it? Will the dead animals benefit from your actions?
In any case, many dead animals end up processed for animal food anyway.
B.
Every experiment which ends in a big bang is a good experiment.
You can't know that until you open the box.
I don't know the meaning of the word 'don't' - J
There are already plenty of great uses for cats.
They'll have to update the book "101 Uses For A Dead Cat" http://www.undergroundhumor.com/books/101_uses_dea d_cat.htm now, to keep it accurate.
Your copy is now outdated.
>Gee, why not state that he's making them from human corpses?
Soylent Gas - It's PEOPLE!
I don't know the meaning of the word 'don't' - J
Hell, if he did then michael moore could make a movie about how bush singly handedly created hurricane katrina in order to turn black people into oil (if he hasn't already done so).
come on, nobody believes that bush single-handedly created the hurricane. its pretty obvious that he had some help.
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Is this the MPAA? Is this the RIAA? Is this the DMCA? I thought it was the USA!
Slashdot trolls and lawyers. Now there is a good machine to own.
No France
...about "putting a tiger in your tank"???
Gentoo Linux - another day, another USE flag.
Not to mention the inroads the internet has been making into areas not yet connected. More net users, more porn, more dead kittens :)
...it's reported that there has been found a way to power a car using dead dinosaurs...
Petrol Direct are the answer to the UK's rising fuel prices - cheap fuel by post, with innovative biofuel products too.
Check out Petrel(TM) a fuel source made from a mixture of seabird guano, combined with the rendered down, fermented and then distilled corpses of a variety of common gulls, albatrosses and terns.
And "Vin Diesel" - Made from the foulest and most undrinkable European wines
Marvellous.
> well, if he did then michael moore could make a movie about how bush singly
> handedly created hurricane katrina in order to turn black people into oil (if
> he hasn't already done so).
Can you point me in the direction of a single instance of Michael Moore lying or exagurating something bad that Bush has done?
One could presumably also use the remains of other creatures, such as politicians, lawyers, and estate agents.
I don't hate my car enough to expect it to handle that.
Now I'm curious what a "live chicken leftover" looks like ;-)
Ahhh...the great dumpster continuum. Many a free computer will be found there. -- sowth (748135)
Do we have to wait till they're dead though?
Just as long as you don't ask to see the undead chicken leftovers.... *shudders*
damned brain-eatin' birds
Everything I need to know I learned by killing smart people and eating their brains.
According to the inventor he can produce the biodiesel fuel at the cost of about $0.30 (US) per liter.
That should read "$0.30 per litter". Typical slashdot editorial laxness!
My Karma: ran over your Dogma
StrawberryFrog
Just call it Soylent Fuel.
Life is just nature's way of keeping meat fresh.
It is not the fuel, but green cookies that scare me...
McNuggets
Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it. --Mark Twain
I bet the inventor has a vanity license plate on his car that reads:
I8URCAT
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Surely there's enough biodiesel (and other flammable liquids) in that useless windbag Ted Kennedy's carcass to power an inner-city bus for several years. And as an added bonus, onen could keep Robert F. Jr. in the trunk as an "auxiliary fuel tank", as it were.
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Lesson for other meta-suckers: Don't believe the hype!
Shouldn't that be 30 cents per litter?
(I'm english, it's spelt litre here, so I mis-read the article anyway)
Respect copyright - the GPL relies on it.
Yes but then you would get mad car disease.
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I'm curious what a "live chicken leftover" looks like
Er, that'd be shit, Jaw. I wouldn't recommend investigating it too closely in volume, but maybe that's just me.
You're special forces then? That's great! I just love your olympics!
Calista Flockhart
The article says that he used 'run-over cats' among other ingredients. So where does he get these cats from? Seeing one scurrying across the road, and noticing the fuel needle hovering near the empty mark, wouldn't you be tempted to swerve and make yourself some free fuel?
Perhaps the mark II will have 'fuel scoops' fitted on the front. And if this invention is adapted for larger diesel engines as used in railway locomotives, the cow-catcher could take on a slightly different purpose.
-- Ed Avis ed@membled.com
Pencil sharpener.
I've always felt there was some kind of relationship between cars and pussy.
Proverbs 21:19
I think the Cat Gas would be great to power the 'Nekobus' (catbus)
http://www.higashiko.net/nekobus/oneko.html
Hmm Fuel from Cats... gives new meaning to 'PETrol'
Sorry