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kitoba
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Post Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2012 3:34 pm |
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1. Attach a cord to the latest Random Silliness thread and draw off some of the unharnessed energy bouncing around inside.
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Steavie
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Post Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2012 7:49 pm |
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2. Treadmills placed around the perimeter of your house during a zombie apocalypse.
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LobosSolos
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Post Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2012 12:45 am |
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Generators attached to company founders after they die and start rotating in their graves at what the new management is doing to their company.
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Jorodryn
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Post Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2012 3:05 pm |
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wrap the earth in a copper coil and suspend in such a way that the Earth's rotation will generate required electricity
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Steavie
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Post Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2012 9:34 pm |
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Harness the energy created by the Cat Toast Experiment (CTE)
CTE is built on the universal truths that a cat will always land on its feet and a piece of buttered toast will always land butter side down. The process involves attaching a piece of buttered toast, butter side up, to the back of a cat. When dropped, the cat and toast enter a state of perpetual realignment, never touching the ground.
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Kajin
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Post Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2012 1:58 am |
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The Cat-to-Buttered-Toast alignment must be absolutely perfect or the whole device will fly apart in short order. I spent hours getting the toast and the cat in perfect sync to each other but was only able to keep them in the air for a minute and thirty seven seconds.
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balthazar
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Post Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2012 2:20 am |
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I think the trick is you need more cats and toast. I tried it with two each lashed to a box frame and managed four minutes three seconds. I suspect the more you use the more stable a rotation you get, but you also get more stress on the entire flywheel assembly. Heaven help you if it should lose structural integrity.
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Solara Hanover
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Post Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2012 9:08 am |
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An infinite number of hamsters and an infinite number of hamster wheels.
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Jorodryn
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Post Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2012 1:01 pm |
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What if instead of cats and toast you try two cats together or two toast together? Would that work in any fashion?
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balthazar
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Post Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2012 1:05 pm |
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I 've tried two cats and have the scars to proove it. You need to keep them seperated with something.
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Steavie
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Post Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2012 9:22 pm |
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Two bits of toast is like a sandwich. Who ever heard of getting power from a sandwich?
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Kajin
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Post Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2012 10:54 pm |
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Put some Spinach on it. Spinach Sandwich.
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Jorodryn
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Post Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2012 11:20 am |
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I have a new suggestion. Footie pajamas and a carpet. That should generate quite a bit of power
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drachefly
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Post Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2012 2:23 pm |
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That's how Van de Graff generators actually work...
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Kajin
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Post Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2012 5:38 pm |
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