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    Get Rid of That Nickle Plated Sissy-Pistol and Get Yourself a Raygun

    The Mechanic Eye

    The Internet Beautifully Visualized As High-Res Tokyo Subway Map, Again

    The Las Vegas Strip, Before and During Earth Hour

    Just One of the Guys!

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    Image of daqman daqman
    04/08/09

    In reply to Get Rid of That Nickle Plated Sissy-Pistol and Get Yourself a Raygun
    I made something in my Dad's garage (forty years ago now!). A coffee jar filled with oil and containing a high voltage transformer made from relay cores and iron rods. A heap of permanent magnets and a big coil powered by AC directly from the wall, and a canister of butane. The butane makes a flame that conducts a current from the high voltage discharge to make a plasma. As the current ramps up the 60 Hz magnetic field (at ninety degrees to the current) moulds the plasma into pulses. The permanent magnets push the pulse train in one direction. Result, something that looks like a benchtop ray-gun.


    Of course there was also the time that I realized that large alkaline batteries were a source of blocks of carbon. What do you make with a big pile of carbon blocks? Let's just say that fortunately I thought that pitch was short for pitchblende, a uranium ore, which isn't true. Mixing melted pitch with Clorox (closest I could come to hydrochloric acid) does leave yellow crystals when you evaporate the solution. thankfully said crystals are not uranium chloride....

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    Image of EBone EBone
    04/09/09

    @daqman: Wow. I only made a pony out of Lego.
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    Image of junyo junyo
    04/08/09

    In reply to Get Rid of That Nickle Plated Sissy-Pistol and Get Yourself a Raygun
    Pound for pound, no weapon is as cool as the Zorg ZF1. Make me that, for real, and watch me do the happy dance.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    04/08/09

    @junyo: The replay system is the icing on the cake for me.
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    Image of EBone EBone
    04/08/09

    In reply to Get Rid of That Nickle Plated Sissy-Pistol and Get Yourself a Raygun
    Can you imagine the freakout at airport security if you forgot you had this in your carry on?
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    04/08/09

    In reply to Get Rid of That Nickle Plated Sissy-Pistol and Get Yourself a Raygun
    Mmmmmm 'tis no match for my Q-38XL Disintegrator.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    04/08/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Is that with or without the earth shattering kaboom?
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    04/08/09

    @Blinded by the Lite: Foolish Earthling, only the Q-36 Space Modulator can cause the Earth-shattering kaboom.


    This makes me very angry

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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    04/08/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: That's the Uranium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator.


    The differentiation here is important.

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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    04/08/09

    @Blinded by the Lite: Later on it was upgraded to illudium.
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    04/07/09

    In reply to The Mechanic Eye
    I'm ready to buy, but where's the Features Comparison chart? For example, can I get Heat Vision Laser Beams now, or will that only be available in later releases? And is X-Ray Vision included in the base price models, or is it considered an upgrade? And if it is an extra-cost item, how does it compare to this common alternative?


    C'mon, Giz, I expect not only better reporting but also better...um...specs.

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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    04/07/09

    @bosskev: Why didn't they ever do a Superman storyline where Superman spent the day hovering outside of Lexcorp's top floor, zapping Luthor with X-rays for 12 hours?




    "You'll never stop me, Superman!"

    "You have an inoperable malignant brain tumor. You'll be dead in three months."


    "Oh. Wow. Now my plans of world domination seem kind of meaningless. I...I don't know what to say. I'm suddenly confronted with my own mortality. Do... do you know of a good hospice provider?"


    "Yes. But I won't tell you. Just because I'm a superhero doesn't mean I'm not a douchebag. Happy cancer, Lex."
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking
    04/07/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: I believe Lex got cancer from Kryptonite in the Justice League series.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking
    04/07/09

    In reply to The Mechanic Eye
    Well, the webcam eye girl will be happy to hear about this: [i.gizmodo.com]
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    04/07/09

    In reply to The Mechanic Eye
    Geordie me up, Scotty!
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    Image of TheCrudMan TheCrudMan
    04/07/09

    In reply to The Mechanic Eye
    You can get the Apple-brand eye, it is prettier and better built then all of them, but is more expensive and unfortunately is not compatible with most forms of light, only proprietary ones.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    04/07/09

    @TheCrudMan: Next thing you know, Apple makes trademark claims of ownership over both "iSight" and "eyesight".
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    04/07/09

    In reply to The Mechanic Eye
    It's all fun and games until someone corrupts the firmware in their bionic eye....
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    Image of William_III_Earl_of_Dastardshire William_III_Earl_of_Dastardshire
    04/07/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Biological eyes are also only good as long as noone mixes methonal in your whiskey..
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    Image of William_III_Earl_of_Dastardshire William_III_Earl_of_Dastardshire
    04/07/09

    @William_III_Earl_of_Dastardshire: Dammit, typing seems to be exceptionally difficult today:

    methonal -> methanol
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    04/07/09

    @William_III_Earl_of_Dastardshire: "Dammit, typing seems to be exceptionally difficult today:"


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    Image of William_III_Earl_of_Dastardshire William_III_Earl_of_Dastardshire
    04/07/09

    @bosskev: Seems to be muscle coordination thing, I hold out for the BCI. And if not that, then it's brain deficiency in which case the BCI might also help..
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    Image of William_III_Earl_of_Dastardshire William_III_Earl_of_Dastardshire
    04/07/09

    @William_III_Earl_of_Dastardshire:

    "Seems to be muscle coordination thing, I hold out for the BCI."-> "Seems to be a muscle coordination thing, so I hold out for the BCI."

    Dammit, shouldn't have gotten out of bed, today.
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    04/07/09

    @William_III_Earl_of_Dastardshire: "Seems to be a muscle coordination thing,..."


    BEGIN TV COMMERCIAL 2


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    Image of Nick Nick
    04/07/09

    In reply to The Mechanic Eye
    i just want depth perception
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    Image of rrrrrrright rrrrrrright
    04/06/09

    In reply to The Internet Beautifully Visualized As High-Res Tokyo Subway Map, Again
    The internet's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes.
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    Image of ScottRose ScottRose
    04/06/09

    @rrrrrrright: Everyone makes fun of that old asshole-guy for the tubes comment, but can anyone think of a better non-electronic analogy for the internet than one of those old-tyme pneumatic tube systems?


    (I know he's still an asshole, because there's no way that he actually understood how the internet works and so shouldn't be talking about legislating it).

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    Image of ceilingFANBOY ceilingFANBOY
    03/30/09

    In reply to The Las Vegas Strip, Before and During Earth Hour
    They should have taken multiple shots of the city during the Earth Hour to see if any of the lights in the background got turned off when people were like "WTF?" and then Googled what was going on and then turned off their lights.


    It's kind of disheartening though that none of the houses appear to have joined in. At least the casinos would have had a reason to keep their lights on because those lights help draw customers into their casinos.

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking
    03/30/09

    In reply to The Las Vegas Strip, Before and During Earth Hour
    I wonder how much energy they saved with the warm up "costs" that many of the metal lamps have, after needing to restart them after they cooled to room temp.
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    Image of kakarotthemonkey kakarotthemonkey
    03/30/09

    @JartMaster_GitEmSteveDave: Must you be a Negative Nancy?
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking
    03/30/09

    @kakarotthemonkey: I'm more of a Sour SteveDave.
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    Image of ScottRose ScottRose
    03/30/09

    In reply to The Las Vegas Strip, Before and During Earth Hour
    Ah, what a great savings, and my awareness is now at 110%.
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    Image of Software_Goddess Software_Goddess
    03/30/09

    In reply to The Las Vegas Strip, Before and During Earth Hour
    I'd really like to see greater participation next year. Come on people this is not that hard!!!
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    Image of sickpup sickpup
    03/30/09

    @Software_Goddess:


    They might get more participation if the whole movement hadn't been hijacked by lunatics.


    I'm in favor of being more eco-friendly. However, I don't believe in man-made global-warming, and I certainly don't support most of the ideas being floated around for the Copenhagen conference.

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    Image of ceilingFANBOY ceilingFANBOY
    03/30/09

    @sickpup: Why do people have to be like that? You know that turning the lights off is good for the environment whether you believe in anthropogenic climate change or not, so why not do it? Besides, turning off your lights is only going to decrease your power bill. OK, maybe the amount it affects your power bill is minimal, but it is in the negative direction, nonetheless. Even then, why not just do it for other reasons, such as it being the one chance that some people would be able to see stars from their house? If people actually participated, wouldn't it have been wild to be able to go star gazing in the middle of the city?
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