The Infamous Materialist @infamousmaterialist - Tumblr Blog

If you had five billion you could hop from job to job, calling entitled customers idiots all across your city, putting the fear of You into every shithead in town until people become afraid to be rude to servers and cashiers, lest you emerge from the back room like some kind of manners-enforcing specter

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My physics professor just told the class the wildest story from when he was in grad school about building a high voltage unauthorized Tesla coil with the ability to kill a man

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No I’m still not over this - this man along with two other graduate students rigged a Tesla coil and a faraday cage without a budget and the arcs of electricity that came off of it hit things in the room like exposed gas pipes. He found a thick piece of plexiglass that he sawed into smaller pieces, he found a screwdriver that he filed down to a sharp point, and he reasoned that by charging the plexiglass with a shit ton of excess electrons and striking it with the screwdriver-ice pick immediately after flipping the coil off but before the energy in the room had a chance to dissipate, they could see the physical path of the conducted electricity as it conducted through the excess electrons.

These men rigged up an empty storage closet in their lab with the faraday cage and Tesla coil and ran their little experiment. My professor ran into the room the instant the coil was turned off, grabbed the grounded screwdriver-ice pick, and stabbed the plexiglass millimeters away from the edge where he could’ve missed.

And it worked.

This man captured a god damn lightning strike in physical media. That shape is from the electricity breaking through the structure of the plexiglass. That’s literally the conduction path.

Anyway I was talking to one of the lab instructors about it and she put her head in her hands and literally groaned. “I wish John hadn’t told you that story.”

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Tumblr:

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me emitting a psychic blast killing everyone

*dusts off my Tumblr login*

Ahh, just as I left it

for a second I thought this was a meme & not an informative illustration of horse mood, & I thought I just couldn’t get the joke

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Make this the new meme!

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War, Famine, Pestilence, Death, Umami

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The Scottish speedrun surgeon never fails to amuse me. 300% death rate in a surgery hall. One of life's greatest mysteries and deaths greatest successes.

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YKNOW. THE SPEEDRUNNING SURGEON WITH A 300% DEATH RATE.

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When I tell that I LOVE solarpunk

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like many others said this is an edit of an ad made by The Line for Chobani, directed by Bjørn-Erik Aschim and heres the page on their website about it

What if we created a future for ourselves that was full of optimism and positivity? This was the starting point for our new animated piece f

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obi-waankenobi

#i like to think data took him all the way to the brig tossed him in and left#and then came back 60 seconds later and was like ‘i believe i have successfully played a ‘practical joke’ on you :)’#riker loses it & claps him on the back like ‘wow. good job u rly had me going. dont ever fucking do that again’ Perfect.

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Actually it’s 73 seconds. Data, knowing something of how human minds work, estimates that Riker will give him 60 seconds to come back (because humans prefer “round numbers”, however arbitrary the units). After 60 seconds it will take 4 seconds for Riker to fully process the conclusion that Data is, in fact, not coming back after all, and an additional 9 seconds to build to the optimum level of anxiety.

After all, comedy is timing.