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    Lightning On Demand - With Drinks!

    Tesla's Mystery Tower On The Brink Of Being Demolished

    The Greatest Inventions Nikola Tesla Never Created

    The Real Mad Scientist Is Always Better Than The Movie

    Everything You Need to Know About the Madness of Nikola Tesla
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    Image of Klebert L. Hall Klebert L. Hall
    08/16/09

    In reply to Lightning On Demand - With Drinks!
    Dang, that would be nice!
    -Kle.
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    Image of gorehound gorehound
    08/16/09

    In reply to Lightning On Demand - With Drinks!
    yup it sure is loud if you near it.
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    Image of Anekanta - killed by a cacodemon Anekanta - killed by a cacodemon
    08/15/09

    In reply to Lightning On Demand - With Drinks!
    That was a crazy video. I was waiting for Darth Vader to show up and throw someone down a shaft.

    I also half-expected a dimensional rift to tear open and a three-headed, many tentacled alien to come crawling out.
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    Image of regis regis
    08/15/09

    In reply to Lightning On Demand - With Drinks!
    oh man. i used to work in a high voltage lab. this looks all kinds of sexy.

    i'll be in my bunk.
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    08/15/09

    In reply to Lightning On Demand - With Drinks!
    Ooooh, that is sooooo cool. But, you know, stuff like that is LOUD. The video doesn't do justice to how loud it really is.
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    Image of regis regis
    08/15/09

    @Roklimber: oh god yeah. i mean, it's lightning. which comes with thunder. right next to you. KA-BOOM.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    08/15/09

    In reply to Lightning On Demand - With Drinks!
    Sure, it's cool, but they'll never get the money.
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    Image of Charax Charax
    08/15/09

    @Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: Build it in Texas, adapt it for executions, charge a spectator's fee. They may even get a state grant
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    08/15/09

    @Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: Unfortunately most likely true. I predict Leyh will, out of disappointment and bitterness, soon turned to a life of crime as a lightening themed super-villain.
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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
    05/08/09

    @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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    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 bonniegrrl bonniegrrl
    01/10/09

    In reply to The Greatest Inventions Nikola Tesla Never Created
    I love Tesla, and vampires, and Sanctuary. But all mixed together it made my blood boil. It's like making Abe Lincoln into a zombie, or Sherlock Holmes into a werewolf. Some combos are never meant to be.
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    Image of resonanteye resonanteye
    01/10/09

    In reply to The Greatest Inventions Nikola Tesla Never Created
    *wants to see the corresponding article about Wilhelm Reich.
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