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Using EMP To Punch Holes In Steel
angrytuna writes "The Economist is running a story about a group of researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology in Chemnitz, Germany, who've found a way to use an EMP device to shape and punch holes through steel. The process enjoys advantages over both lasers, which take more time to bore the hole (0.2 vs. 1.4 seconds), and by metal presses, which can leave burrs that must be removed by hand."
The article focuses on how this is a more "peaceful use" for the EMP. I disagree: when the robot apocalypse finally arrives, and a rogue T800 drives after you in into a steel mill, it will be damn useful to have an EMP device used for shaping steel rings handy to stop the cybernetic killing machine. As an added benefit, an EMP would destroy the cpu, meaning no Cyberdyne Systems, and I get my 5 hours back wasted on T3 and Terminator Salvation!
The mechanical press was, like, so 1984.
He is our governor now, you insensitive clod!
You're the sort of wet blanket who during the space battle scenes of Star Wars leans over and whispers, "There's no sound in space," aren't you?
(...and urine also is VERY salty.)
uhh, thanks for sharing.
Better check whether the state's budget problems are due to a slightly excessive allocation to Cyberdyne Systems via front companies or dummy government departments.
Humans are not usually very magnetic.
Are you sure? There are some humans that I have found to be highly repulsive...
"A government is a body of people usually -- notably -- ungoverned." -Shepherd Book
humans can not be punched with the EMP punch at present energy levels.
There, weaponized that for you.
THL phish sticks
I once had a girlfriend like that - and you guess correctly.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Have you considered working for NASA?
A real scientist would get a post-grad student to taste his urine.
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
You must be popular at rave parties...
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
A real scientist would get that post-grad student to taste the urine of the whole staff, to see if there is a difference between gender, age, race and diet. Oh, and he'd get more then one post-grad to do that, or else your pool of results would be to insignificant
Could be worse. You could have the governor where I live... you know, the one whose staff thought he said "I'll be hiking the Appalachian Trail" when what he actually said was "I'll be getting some Argentinian Tail."
Allegedly real newspaper headline from 1998:
Man Struck by Lightning Faces Battery Charge
Especially if you can stick them all in the airlock at once and then toss them out.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!