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    Who Needs Electricity When You Can Power Things With Light Alone?

    Tesla's Mystery Tower On The Brink Of Being Demolished

    Don't Pee On That. Seriously.

    Saturn’s Moon Could Hold Spark of Life

    The Dangers of Electricity Addiction

    Everything You Need to Know About the Madness of Nikola Tesla

    Dress Like the Inside of a Philip K. Dick Character's Mind

    Wes Craven Getting A Shocker, Again

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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    07/14/09

    In reply to Who Needs Electricity When You Can Power Things With Light Alone?
    "a combination of attractive and repulsive lights"



    When I read this, all I could think was "disco ball".
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    Edited by Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. at 07/14/09 9:30 PM Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. was starred Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. was unstarred
    Image of alphanumeric1971 alphanumeric1971
    07/15/09

    @Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: I was gonna say something about that too,



    but it's too early in the morning to go there just yet.
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    Image of Anekanta - killed by a cacodemon Anekanta - killed by a cacodemon
    07/14/09

    In reply to Who Needs Electricity When You Can Power Things With Light Alone?
    Word Nerd here: watch out for silicon vs. silicone. Silicon is the element semiconductor chips are made out of. Silicone is a caulking-like synthetic polymer material used to seal fishtanks.



    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicone
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    Image of alphanumeric1971 alphanumeric1971
    07/15/09

    @Anekanta: or inflate a starlet's chest line.
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    Image of Truthseeker_Young Truthseeker_Young
    07/14/09

    In reply to Who Needs Electricity When You Can Power Things With Light Alone?
    um, wait, are they generating the split-infrared beam without electricity, too?



    Because right now, it sounds like they're saying



    "SEE?!? With only this piece of TWINE (coughgarble)tiedtothiselectricwinch(/coughgarble), we're turning these spindle-thingies round & round, with NO ELECTRICITY :D



    unless I've missed something important (which is highly likely)...
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    Edited by Truthseeker_Young at 07/14/09 6:22 PM Truthseeker_Young was starred Truthseeker_Young was unstarred
    Image of delRock delRock
    07/14/09

    @Truthseeker_Young: No I think your right. Most energy tech is one piece of the puzzle at a time. Hopefully we'll split beams with out energy before we move twine by it's self.



    also:



    "This nano-stuff is confusing"



    Nice contribution star commenters.

    Urgh....This new comment system....
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    07/14/09

    @delRock: *cough* Reference *cough*
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    Edited by 92BuickLeSabre at 07/14/09 6:36 PM 92BuickLeSabre was starred 92BuickLeSabre was unstarred
    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    07/14/09

    In reply to Who Needs Electricity When You Can Power Things With Light Alone?
    This nano-stuff is so confusing.



    If only there were some kind of video to help explain it to me.
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    Image of Ruthless, If you let me Ruthless, If you let me
    07/14/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: Sounds like a request for Bill Nye!
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    Image of phoenix phoenix
    05/08/09

    In reply to Tesla's Mystery Tower On The Brink Of Being Demolished
    Aw - that's a shame. We owe a lot to Tesla, and not just the whole mad scientist-ness that came out of his later years.
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    05/07/09

    In reply to Tesla's Mystery Tower On The Brink Of Being Demolished
    The Boston museum of (natural history? Science? whatever) claims to have the world's largest Tesla coil. It looks like an enormous metal scrotum. I wonder if this thing's bigger. I hope so. We can't let Boston win the electric scrotum race.
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    Image of Dearhaw Dearhaw
    05/07/09

    @BadUncle:


    I was there the other day with my son & wife. They do have some Tesla coils, but the "largest in the world" they have is not a Tesla coil but the world's largest Van de Graff generator


    [en.wikipedia.org]


    >> We can't let Boston win the electric scrotum race


    Cuz there ain't no way you're gonna win AL East this year (again)? :lol:

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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    05/07/09

    @Dearhaw: grrr! The yankees are like a mudhorse - slow out of the gate.


    Tesla coil / Van de Graff generator - oy. I always confuse these things.

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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    05/07/09

    In reply to Tesla's Mystery Tower On The Brink Of Being Demolished
    That tower will never be demolished. Every time someone gets near, there's a *ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZAAAAAAP* and a comically shrieking little man waving his arms and turning into ash.
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    Image of ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H. ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H.
    05/08/09

    @crashedpc : ゴキブリ and 蟑螂 division: Need some troopers recharging them.
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    Image of Kpibca Kpibca
    05/07/09

    In reply to Tesla's Mystery Tower On The Brink Of Being Demolished
    Oh crap, if the guys from R.O.A.C.H. find out about this they'll be scavenging doomsday devices before you can say "secret volcano hideout".
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    05/07/09

    @Kpibca is hard to pronounce: Not everyone from R.O.A.C.H. is a guy. mwah ha ha.
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    Image of Kpibca Kpibca
    05/07/09

    @Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H: I guess that makes us even then, doesn't it? Mwahahaha!
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    05/07/09

    @Kpibca is hard to pronounce: Bwa ha ha ha!


    (now that we're laughing in stereo, is it time for a freeze-frame?)

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    Image of MillerKabobbing MillerKabobbing
    05/07/09

    In reply to Tesla's Mystery Tower On The Brink Of Being Demolished
    the article mentions Guglielmo Marconi as the inventor of radio, but fails to mention that the supreme court later upheld tesla's original patent on radio. (go check wikipedia)
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    05/07/09

    @MillerKabobbing: That may be so, but when Tesla was working on the tower, he lost his funding because of Marconi's discovery.
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    Image of hewkii9 hewkii9
    05/07/09

    In reply to Tesla's Mystery Tower On The Brink Of Being Demolished
    I'm sure that Nikola Telsa is rolling in his grave right now. And Nikola Tesla might be too.
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    05/07/09

    @hewkii9: I hear that Telsa and Tesla are actually buried in the same place, but in PARALLEL UNIVERSES. Oh, and fixed. :)
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    Image of Grand_Marquis Grand_Marquis
    05/07/09

    In reply to Tesla's Mystery Tower On The Brink Of Being Demolished
    Resulting Headline:


    Historical Tesla Tower Demolished; Thousands of Paranoid Delusionals Remove Tinfoil Hats In Celebration, Mysteriously cured.

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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    05/07/09

    @Grand_Marquis: NOOOO!!! MY EVIL PLANS!!!!
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    crashedpc - Haifisch was starred crashedpc - Haifisch was unstarred
    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    05/07/09

    @Grand_Marquis: I don't know about you, but my tinfoil shield is subdermal. NOBODY CAN TAKE IT AWAY FROM ME.
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    Image of bluehinter bluehinter
    12/11/08

    In reply to Don't Pee On That. Seriously.
    These are all brilliant! Apparently, in 1930's Germany, you really shouldn't touch anything... ever. Even Christmas and checking the mail are deadly!


    I especially love this one which indicates shows that you could die if your friends are a bunch of goddamn assholes.

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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    12/11/08

    In reply to Don't Pee On That. Seriously.
    I like how that first young man is peeing with the highly sophisticated "backhand grip". It offers less control, but more stability, for those really high pressure uh... "incidents".
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    Image of elliott elliott
    12/11/08

    @Pope John Peeps II:


    The first thing I thought when I saw that pic was "wtf, backhand grip?"


    glad im not the only one haha

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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    12/11/08

    @elliott: I also don't understand the bare feet or the face. From what I can make out, this young man hasn't peed in at least 16 days. And one morning he finally snapped, ran out of the house frantically (forgetting his shoes), then immediately unfurled the hose in backhand grip for the death pee.
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    Image of bluewyvern bluewyvern
    12/11/08

    In reply to Don't Pee On That. Seriously.
    Re: that first one, does anyone make a face like that when they...pee? He looks quite overcome.
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    12/11/08

    @bluewyvern: Do not wank on the wire? Almost as catchy as "mind the gap."
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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    12/11/08

    In reply to Don't Pee On That. Seriously.
    Dont whiz on the electric fence. The greatest board game ever.


    [www.electricfencewhiz.ytmnd.com]

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