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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
A spokesman for Bild told Reuters the story was meant to show that cat remains could "in theory" be used to make fuel with Koch's patented method.
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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?
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*
This was a story by BILD, the world's largest tabloid newspaper. It is nicely rebuked at Bildblog.de which is a meta-blog following BILD and exposing it's errors, bias and lies. The company ("Alphakat") simply develops a method to process waste as a kind of Bio-Diesel.
Fleur de Sel
A use for a cat? Who could have imagined it?
Oh I don't know. I've found them quite useful for my quantum mechanics experiments. What I do is I leave the cat in a box for a week and see if it's dead or alive when I take it out. Sure all 1000 experiments have resulted in death for the cat, but I'm not convinced that this isn't a statistical anomaly. I'll kill another 1000 cats if I have to!
no he wouldnt
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yes he would
no he wouldnt
The Alphakat website states (in german) that the messages distributed by the media about Dr. Christian Koch (Koch is german for 'cook') processing dead cats into diesel are false and unfounded. And that legal action is being taken against those who made these allegations...
-- Neminem laede, immo omnes, quantum potes, iuva.
"It's an alternative fuel that is friendly for the environment. But it's complete nonsense to suggest dead cats. I've never used cats and would never think of that. At most the odd toad may have jumped in."
"1984" was ment to be a warning, not a guidebook. You hear that Kim Jong-il!? BushCo?!
That's just a hoax of our famous 'newspaper' called Bild. If you can read German, visit the Bildblog, a blog dedicated to debunk all of Bilds hoaxes. In the meantime, Dr. Christian Koch put a note on his website, declining that he is using dead cats to produce fuel.
There are already plenty of great uses for cats.
One could presumably also use the remains of other creatures, such as politicians, lawyers, and estate agents.
"In theory".
If your comment title says 'Re: Foo', I'm not likely to read it.
...about "putting a tiger in your tank"???
Gentoo Linux - another day, another USE flag.
Fill the box with urine and there's a check with your name on it at the National Endowment of the Arts.
No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. - Cmdr. Susan Ivanova
This news is simply no news. Its a story entirely made up by the biggest german tabloid called Bild. Everyone in Germany with a little education knows that Bild lies in every second line. It's sad to see that even CNN and Reuters fall for stories made up by Bild. I have been in the States for six months and i do have to say that i was amused by the "news" being broadcasted first which soon shifted for me to feel sorry for you guys over there. Unfortunatly there seem too few people having a critical approach to what the news tell them and who inform themselves from really different sources. This is a link to a german blog by journalists that monitor Bild covering the "cat-fuel" article: http://www.bildblog.de/?p=791 It's german, don't know if babelfish etc will be able to translate it properly.
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.
Sigh.
Siting = choosing the location of something.
Citing = quoting a reference. I think this is what the original poster was getting at.
Sighting = seeing something.
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
It's a little-known fact that Schrödinger's famous thought experiment concerning a cat was actually carried out, using grad students (they're cheaper than cats). He locked them in a tiny box where they were either awarded funding, or not, but he didn't know which until he opened the box three years later and they were all dead. The experiment is regularly repeated in science departments around the world.
I bet the inventor has a vanity license plate on his car that reads:
I8URCAT
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Did the moderator even read the first line of the article - "Inventor denies dead cat fuel story".
The post is completely inaccurate.