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Slime posted:Your finger is exactly what they want by the sounds of it. For the first time ever.
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Snapchat A Titty posted:Back at the dorm we once filled up a big barbecue grill with old landline phones and gasoline, because all the electronics poo poo in the phones would give off cool colors. It did, but also the flames were 3 stories high and the grill burned through and we had to replace a section of the flag stones that had been ruined by a lump of molten iron & various other leftovers. Once we found a couple of old Tektronix data terminals sitting by the dumpsters behind a lab. These fuckers  We dragged them back to our dorm and tore both of them down and found the power supplies, which were big horizontal plates covered with capacitors, some the size of Foster's beer cans, rated to like 1.5F, and a plunger that completed a charging circuit; which meant that naturally we kept one power supply intact as a charging device and disassembled the other one for ammunition for that evening's charged capacitor fights 8% applicant acceptance rate, ladies and gentlemen
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chitoryu12 posted:Speaking of magnesium, apparently the US military uses or used magnesium-framed snowshoes for their light weight and ability to be shaved as emergency fire starter. I'm wondering how the Marines felt thinking about walking around the campfire with shoes made of highly reactive tinder. You have to shave it (under normal circumstances) into powder or thin strips before it will ignite.
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Data Graham posted:rated to like 1.5F,  Holy poo poo
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peter gabriel posted:1.46 every time Thank you for that, because the next one up was this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMhw5MFYU0s So many clumsy dogs in slow motion.
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Neurion posted:
Explain it to the idiots like me. How do you fight with a charged capacitor? What is 1.5F mean?
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Nov 11, 2015 05:11
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Ya charge em up and ya huck em at each other. From opposite ends of a narrow hallway. 1.5 farads is a looooooot of electrons. we didn't throw that one. (one guy melted the strike plate of his door though)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKJzNNPHFg0Data Graham posted:Ya charge em up and ya huck em at each other. From opposite ends of a narrow hallway. Still kind of confusing, but I'll try and translate again, as a dumb, non-electrically educated person: They have lots of electricity stored in them, so when you throw them at poo poo they explode and pop and spark and make pretty colors and maybe set things on fire.
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Nov 11, 2015 05:53
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chitoryu12 posted:Speaking of magnesium, apparently the US military uses or used magnesium-framed snowshoes for their light weight and ability to be shaved as emergency fire starter. I'm wondering how the Marines felt thinking about walking around the campfire with shoes made of highly reactive tinder. I got a few pairs of these surplus snowshoes. They're fantastic, the bindings suck a bit but the shoes themselves are so tough and sturdy and because they're all magnesium and I'm guessing some sort of nylon they're super light.
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peter gabriel posted:1.46 every time Huh, Godzilla will help you bathe your dog.
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Rah! posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKJzNNPHFg0 Imagine taping down the power button on a stun gun and chucking it at your buddies. The goal of the game was probably "don't catch the end that stops your heart."
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Nov 11, 2015 06:59
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syscall girl posted:You have to shave it (under normal circumstances) into powder or thin strips before it will ignite. But what if you made a grill out of them(magnesium)? This might be a thing.
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Nov 11, 2015 07:50
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Neurion posted:
 There's a dude on youtube that set up a bank of 350F (I think ~50F effective capacitance from how they were wired) capacitors to replace his car battery, and it worked.
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PhazonLink posted:But what if you made a grill out of them(magnesium)? This might be a thing. Are you referring to the time that someone did? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp4ucQCjNvU http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2009/07/do-you-have-a-perfect-flame-gas-grill-then-read-this/index.htm
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Once in the 60's they decided to make the F1 Honda RA302 with a magnesium chassis. Didn't go well and the driver was killed when it caught fire.
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Nov 11, 2015 11:32
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speshl guy posted:Similarly I once lit several guitar picks on fire in my room when I was a kid and marveled at how aggressively the fire burnt, like a butane torch. What I didn't consider was that fumes were also being burned off just as aggressively from the plastic and one whiff knocked me out instantly. I woke up with a killer headache and a freshly singed carpet. I was lucky enough not to have burned the house down. My favourite bit, undoubtedly, was the moment where the cameraman said 'Professional Texan', followed immediately by fireworks exploding in someone's face. Too perfect.
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Crazy guy writes lovely fairytale-inspired fantasy novel, goes bugfuck crazy when a woman leaves a bad one star review and stalks her Twitter and Instagram accounts her to find out where she works, travels from London all the way to Glasgow and smashes a wine bottle over her head when her back was turned. The cops tracked him down pretty quickly, he didn't exactly try hard to cover his tracks. He plead guilty in court today, it turns out there's consequences for crazy poo poo like that. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/teenager-bottled-ex-countdown-champion-6802185 Somewhat  for photo of head wound stitched up like a Xmas ham.Here's the review if anyone wants to read it. It contains this wonderfully prescient line: "Unfortunately, Mr. Brittain has gained a bit of infamy on Wattpad where he's known for threatening users who don't praise him (pray for me)"
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Nov 11, 2015 11:57
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Goons posted:
He didn't throw the bottle, but he knows who did, and he isn't telling  the fountain still has a fence up around it to this day.
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Jonny Nox posted:Rafael's the Schadenfreude though. He's got to act like he can help any of these people at all but the problems are foundational to the company he works for. I thought the freude was the unauthenticated person "Rusty" pretending to work for the company and trying to get people's details.
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Nov 11, 2015 12:15
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Malachite_Dragon posted:Not me and pretty tame by comparison, but his senior year my dad's group of friends threw an open bottle of Mr. Bubble into the big fountain by his high school's football stadium. On homecoming game night. I'm told it was a thing of beauty. It was a high school tradition for about twenty years in my home town for kids to add bubble bath to the town fountain at the end of the school year. It was always a glorious sight. The schadenfreude is that one year, the council decided to be jerks and turned the fountain off for an entire week  And have done that every year since.Some people have no soul.
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Excellent, elaborate prank. Some good, clean schadenfreude fun. https://www.facebook.com/1513152292330408/videos/1516317675347203/ (Couldn't find a YouTube link, sorry.)
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Nov 11, 2015 13:38
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Crazy guy writes lovely fairytale-inspired fantasy novel, goes bugfuck crazy when a woman leaves a bad one star review and stalks her Twitter and Instagram accounts her to find out where she works, travels from London all the way to Glasgow and smashes a wine bottle over her head when her back was turned. The cops tracked him down pretty quickly, he didn't exactly try hard to cover his tracks. He plead guilty in court today, it turns out there's consequences for crazy poo poo like that. Holy poo poo the heroine of his story has a name that's an anagram of the woman he has a conviction for stalking.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Holy poo poo the heroine of his story has a name that's an anagram of the woman he has a conviction for stalking. He allegedly got the idea for the book when he sent her a Valentine's card (sometime after the police warned him to stop contacting her) where he included an illustration of her as a fantasy character. He had an awesome idea on how to get the book publicized! quote:Seven months later, when it was complete, I decided to try to make my book known by getting into the national news. I found out that she worked in Glasgow, so I travelled there with a plan. I was going to tell her that if she came with me, and we faked a kidnapping, we would both become famous. We would go into the hills and camp out for a few days while the nation searched. I had brought the necessary supplies.
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Nov 11, 2015 13:55
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Unluckiest batter I've ever seen. 1:53 is  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyprjMmwjFA
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Gorilla Salad posted:It was a high school tradition for about twenty years in my home town for kids to add bubble bath to the town fountain at the end of the school year. It was always a glorious sight. I don't see why someone couldn't hide soap in the fountain while it was off so it would suds up when they turned it back on. Apparently it's pretty expensive to clean those up. I live in Kansas City which has like a billion fountains and whenever one gets soaped there's always a story about how the pump has to be replaced and the fixtures (a lot of which are hundreds of years old and imported from Italy) have to be cleaned. Also, this one is in the Loose Park Rose Garden and the suds blew all over the garden and the Parks and Rec people had to clean the roses off too.  
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Since we're on the topic of doing stupid things in high school: When I was in a metalshop class, one of my classmates though it'd be really cool to take a thing of oil and pour it in the forge. He ended up losing sight in one of his eyes.
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I'm loving the fact the STEAM box was released today as PC GAMING FOR THE PRICE OF A CONSOLE, but the prices for something pretty decent as far as pc gaming goes is around 1000$ or more. Even a "build your own to act as a steam machine" is gonna run you about a grand.
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Skier hits a trench and cartwheels 1,600 feet down a mountain in under a minute. That's almost half a kilometre. Good news, he was wearing a mic! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvQxVE32BQo
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I think this is a dirty dirty lie cause I know if I fell 1600 feet I'd just be yelling FFFFUUUUUUCCCCCCKKKKKKk the whole way down 
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Chromatic posted:Unluckiest batter I've ever seen. 1:53 is The dry commentary right after 1:48 is priceless: "Well, now we know why he had that expression on his face."
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:I'm loving the fact the STEAM box was released today as PC GAMING FOR THE PRICE OF A CONSOLE, but the prices for something pretty decent as far as pc gaming goes is around 1000$ or more. Not sure where you're going with this. Like - isn't that the point of the Steam Machines? That you don't have to spend a grand to get a fully-functional computer to play your Steam games on?
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Besesoth posted:Not sure where you're going with this. Like - isn't that the point of the Steam Machines? That you don't have to spend a grand to get a fully-functional computer to play your Steam games on? Problem is that you can't actually build a console-tier gaming PC for console prices. (You could if you were making as many Steam Machines as PS4s/XBox Ones, but Valve isn't gonna get anywhere close to those numbers.)
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Bingo. The whole "YOU CAN GET PC GAMING AWESOMENESS IN 1080P GLORIOUSITY" option for pc gaming is great, but the fact the STEAM CONSOLE options that will get you that awesomeness cost anywhere from 900-1500$ is hilarious to me.
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Consoles are cheap because their prices are subsidized by people buying games for them. Microsoft was losing money on each Xbox sold, the only way a Steambox could be subsidized like that is if Valve produced them directly or they gave a cut of whatever was bought on them to the manufacturer.
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PRADA SLUT posted:Consoles are cheap because their prices are subsidized by people buying games for them. Hmm geez wiz I wonder if Valve could sell games to offset a loss leader like a Steambox. Why bother though, they already have all the hats they could ever want.
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Bingo. The whole "YOU CAN GET PC GAMING AWESOMENESS IN 1080P GLORIOUSITY" option for pc gaming is great, but the fact the STEAM CONSOLE options that will get you that awesomeness cost anywhere from 900-1500$ is hilarious to me. The steam machine costs $449 for the cheapest version of it and the most expensive version(with an i7) is $749, not sure where you got the 900-1500. Also if you are willing to build your own machine, you can put together a ~$500 machine that will run any game, though not on the highest graphics settings for the newest games. 
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Apogee15 posted:The steam machine costs $449 for the cheapest version of it and the most expensive version(with an i7) is $749, not sure where you got the 900-1500. Also if you are willing to build your own machine, you can put together a ~$500 machine that will run any game, though not on the highest graphics settings for the newest games. Yep, and even then, the $500 versions will perform similar to current gen consoles, and the more expensive ones are more capable. It's similar to how cell carriers in the US are moving away from subsidizing phones through an added fee on contract, and are instead selling directly. Some people have griped that "I get a new phone every 2 years, and it usually costs me $100 but now they are asking $600? WTF is this?" Two different business models.
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Chromatic posted:Unluckiest batter I've ever seen. 1:53 is I know nothing about baseball, but I noticed that after he moved to the Giants when he got hit people would rush out to check he was okay. 
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That is interesting. Please tell us more about gaming platforms
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Apogee15 posted:The steam machine costs $449 for the cheapest version of it and the most expensive version(with an i7) is $749, not sure where you got the 900-1500. Also if you are willing to build your own machine, you can put together a ~$500 machine that will run any game, though not on the highest graphics settings for the newest games. I'm assuming you are talking about the alienware one. I was browsing around and seeing most of them "starting at 999$" on http://store.steampowered.com/search/#category1=993
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