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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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EBone
04/09/09

@daqman: Wow. I only made a pony out of Lego.
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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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Kaiser-Machead
04/08/09

@junyo: The replay system is the icing on the cake for me.
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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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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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Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
04/08/09

@Kaiser-Machead: Is that with or without the earth shattering kaboom?

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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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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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Kaiser-Machead
04/08/09

@Blinded by the Lite: Later on it was upgraded to illudium.
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SlinkyDink
02/06/09

In reply to Acme Ray Gun Pen Kills Bills
I'm not trying to get all birkenstock about it, but that doesn't look like a very comfortable pen to hold.
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Curves
02/06/09

@SlinkyDink: I am with you on the ergonomics on that. I am seeing hand cramp written all over it.
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ripfire
02/06/09

@Curves: That's what she sai.. Oh.. sorry.
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GiltProto
02/06/09

In reply to Acme Ray Gun Pen Kills Bills
Flash, aah, he's a miracle
"This morning's unprecedented written missive
Is no cause for alarm"
Flash, aah, poet of the impossible

He's for every one of us
Write to every one of us
He'll save with his ACME pen
Every man, every woman, every child
With his mighty pen

FLASH!
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Hvedhrungr
02/06/09

@GiltProto: Uhm... no.

And for a very brief moment there, I was reminded not of the original Flash Gordon, but of the fleshflick adaption Flesh Gordon, because I read "with his mighty peen" instead of "pen".
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
02/06/09

@Hvedhrungr: LOL.. I haven't seen that one in a loooooooooooong time.
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bosskev
02/06/09

In reply to Acme Ray Gun Pen Kills Bills
Looked at the photo, thought the pen was cute'n'funky, a possible stocking stuffer gift to myself, clicked on the link

OMFG OMFG OMFG

$130???

OMFG OMFG OMFG

Are you KIDDING ME???

OMFG OMFG OMFG

* sighs *

* goes back to 19¢ Bic Stic pen *

* stolen from work, of course *
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Kaiser-Machead
02/06/09

In reply to Acme Ray Gun Pen Kills Bills
On the question of how Wile-E Coyote affords to buy all of this Acme stuff, mind you, we're only seeing him for a few minutes out of his life at a time as he struggles to catch a roadrunner, so there's no telling what he does for a living. It's possible he steals it.

But since we're on the subject, if he can buy all of this Acme stuff, surely he can just buy some prepared poultry, which would probably be more substantial than the puny body of the roadrunner. I suppose he does it on principle. However, if he really had a lot of principles, he would've filed a complaint against the Acme Corporation for releasing shoddy, poorly designed products. I mean, a rocket that rides on a wire? Really? These guys are like disgruntled employees of NASA on crack.

Cool pen though.
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
02/06/09

@Kaiser-Machead: Judging from how often those Acme products fail one would hope he's smart enough to either get his money back or exchange the item for store credit..
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Kaiser-Machead
02/06/09

@Jrsy Devil's Advocate: Judging by how badly damaged some of them turn out to be, I don't suppose he'd get much in the way of warranty support. After falling off a cliff, getting crushed by rocks and the like, I'm sure he's more concerned about his insurance premiums skyrocketing due to his shenanigans, than a few chintzy wares from a looney-tooney gadget distributor.
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
02/06/09

@Kaiser-Machead: Actually he does pretty good with the insurance. His cousin Vin E. Coyote has a way of manipulating those insurance claims...
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
02/06/09

In reply to Acme Ray Gun Pen Kills Bills
Ohh, I'm such a Luddite. I still put pen to paper at least 5 days a week. This pen would be a fine addition to the rest of the stuff collecting dust on my desk..
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fate47 - Meh.
02/06/09

In reply to Acme Ray Gun Pen Kills Bills
This thing puts me to mind of the Eludium P-U36 Explosive Space Modulator.
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Kaiser-Machead
02/06/09

@fate47:

Twinkle Twinkle little Earth

How I wonder what you're worth

You'll be worthless when I am through

Blasting, Zapping, Crushing you
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