The Tech wackiness started with DX posting a link to an article on a small commercial nuclear power plant, for an apartment building, small group of individuals, etc:
DXMachina
I see a new purchase in Castle Gudanov's future...
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NoiseDesign
That is way too cool.
Gudanov
Home improvement project
DXMachina
Think of the stereo system you could drive with it.
eta: I love that they're positioning it for the consumer market:
The new reactor, which is only 20 feet by 6 feet, could change everything for small remote communities, small businesses or even a group of neighbors who are fed up with the power companies and want more control over their energy needs.
(italics mine)
tommyrot
The article mentions that it could be used to power an apartment building or even be used by a group of individuals who wanted off the power grid.
Somehow I imagine the government might put some...
obstacles
in the way of private citizens who want to own their own petite nuclear power plant....
eta: x-posty with DX's edit....
Tom Scola
I imagine the government might put some... obstacles in the way of private citizens who want to own their own petite nuclear power plant....
Pffft! What could possibly go wrong?
tommyrot
Also, I wonder how much it weighs...
::dusts off blueprints for nuclear powered zeppelin::
tommyrot
Pffft! What could possibly go wrong?
Remember that '70s made-for-TV movie about the nuclear powered super-bus?
NoiseDesign
Pffft! What could possibly go wrong?
I'm sure they'd do great in Southern California. What could possible hurt an underground nuclear plant there?
tommyrot
I'm sure they'd do great in Southern California. What could possible hurt an underground nuclear plant there?
Crips and Bloods attempting drive-by shootings of each other's nuclear power plants?
ita
So where do you buy lithium 6?
Gudanov
Pffft! What could possibly go wrong?
There would be occasional giant insect attack, but that's what chainsaws are for
NoiseDesign
I'm sure Duracell will market it in a new laptop battery soon.
Gudanov
So where do you buy lithium 6?
Wal-Mart
NoiseDesign
It's on the shelf next to the ice-9
tommyrot
I'm sure Duracell will market it in a new laptop battery soon.
Nah. Apple is the one to introduce cutting-edge technology.
::Waits for iNuke::
flea
I love you all.
KristinT
I picture
iNuke
as a tall white tower with blue, bubbly radioactive waste that smells like baby powder.
NoiseDesign
And you'd have install iTunes to turn it on.
DXMachina
...And sign up for a two year contract with AT&T.
NoiseDesign
The bill would come in a 14' delivery truck.
tommyrot
And there'd be annoying Apple DRM to prevent you from turning it into a breeder reactor and making your own weapons-grape plutonium...
DXMachina
making your own weapons-grape plutonium...
Plutonium comes in flavors now? It truly is an age of wonders.
NoiseDesign
Apple plutonium does.
DXMachina
Of course it does. How silly of me.
Gudanov
Well Toshiba is developing it, so I'm waiting for the Toshiba notebook with a 40 year battery life, the Satellite Nuke. That sounds more like a DOD project though.
DXMachina
Try getting that laptop through airport (continued...)
( continues...) security...
Gudanov
Apple plutonium does.
For the new iWarhead with the translucent housing.
Gudanov
Try getting that laptop through airport security...
You'd just have to arm it, er... I mean turn it on for them.
tommyrot
For the new iWarhead with the translucent housing.
Of course, it sucks that Steve Jobs insists that iWarhead only come with one button....
amych
Of course, it sucks that Steve Jobs insists that iWarhead only come with one button....
But with the multi-touch interface on the control rods, all you have to do is make this cute little pinchy gesture to stop that meltdown!
tommyrot
Yeah. Or you can just drag the slider from the mushroom cloud icon to the puppy icon.
NoiseDesign
The cloud is actually in the shape of a puppy.
tommyrot
The cloud is actually in the shape of a puppy.
Yeah. Some day that might cause a problem....
NoiseDesign
They were going to do it in the shape of an Apple but the Beatles threatened to sue them.
tommyrot
So if ever there's an accidental nuclear apocalypse, the mutated survivors will be roaming the countryside, beating puppies with sticks....
NoiseDesign
Seems reasonable to me.
omnis_audis
DUDE! Do you know what this means?!?! MM can have an awesome power source for his Transporter development! We (as B.org) TOTALLY have to chip in for one. It should be safe in Mich. Nothing bad happens there.
DXMachina
Nothing bad happens there.
You've obviously haven't been paying attention to U Michigan's football team this year.
It's true, though. It's like a world domination starter kit.
flea in Natter:
I am now desirous of writing a book with the title: Oscar Mike Golf Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Bravo Bravo Quebec.
OMG, that riff on the home reactor kit was made of awsome!
Not that flea's post wasn't funny.
Talking Shrift down, in Natter....
shrift:
I'm trying really, really hard not to stab the entire world in the face.
Gudanov:
Just think about Puppies and Unicorns.
Kat:
being stabbed in the face.
tommyrot:
Stabbing the world in the face? Or stabbing each other in the face?
How good is a unicorn's horn for stabbing puppies anyway? I mean, it's a spiral horn, so you'd have to twist the puppy around to get it off....
eta: cute animal stab-in-the-face x-posty....
OMG, and I thought the Furries ruined "Puppies and Unicorns" as my happy thought.
Allyson
on the relative merits of BDSM vs submissive Christians:
Well there's the whole submission thing and the spare the rod thing and the pro-torture thing and the training daughters to be good submissives until their daddies transfer ownership and the all that stuff.
But at least the BDSM people have safe words.
I'm on the fence about who has better fashion sense.
ita:
Wait, wait, wait--how does BDSM not win this hands (tied) down?
Oh, but you have to include Allyson's follow-up:
Well, from a practical standpoint, I think the average crazyass evangelical uniform is dockers and blue oxford shirts. They blend into white bread america. Like serial killers.
Very unassuming.
It doesn't make sense to wear assless chaps out in public, really. It's difficult to explain.
And aesthetically speaking, plus sized dockers aren't as bad an assault on the eyes as plus sized assless chaps.
Emily: Man, I hate it when you all have interesting conversations while I'm away! I take it, by the way, that two girls one cup is arguably more disturbing than goatse? I'm never going to go look, but it would, for reasons that don't need explaining at this juncture, make me feel better to know.
Tommyrot's followup: Yeah. Sorta' like how Hamlet is arguably better than Ace Ventura - Pet Detective.
