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You are here: Home / Science & Technology / Energy Policy / Overnight Open Thread: Shocking!

Overnight Open Thread: Shocking!

by Adam L Silverman|  December 4, 20161:02 am| 10 Comments

This post is in: Energy Policy, Open Threads, Silverman on Security, Fuck Yeah!, I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own

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Here’s an actual Tesla coil rifle to shock you awake on this early Sunday morning/late Saturday evening. If you want to build your own, the details are here. I’m going to bed, amuse yourselves!

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  1. 1.

    Felanius Kootea

    December 4, 2016 at 1:15 am

    Heheheh – for a minute there, I thought Tesla (the car company) was now in the business of making battery powered guns.

  2. 2.

    Steeplejack (tablet)

    December 4, 2016 at 1:19 am

    @efgoldman:

    Torque, not horsepower, baby!

  3. 3.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    December 4, 2016 at 1:34 am

    how many intelligence briefings has he tried to get through?

    Donald J. TrumpVerified account
    ‏@ realDonaldTrump
    Just tried watching Saturday Night Live – unwatchable! Totally biased, not funny and the Baldwin impersonation just can’t get any worse. Sad

    and I thought Baldwin was particularly good tonight

  4. 4.

    Keith P.

    December 4, 2016 at 1:41 am

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: They’re really amping up the meanness now. I’m not complaining…good to see the gloves coming off (I LOLed on the Kellyanne Conway dead-soul-and-hair line)

  5. 5.

    frosty

    December 4, 2016 at 1:53 am

    @efgoldman: Yeah, electric motors are much better at acceleration than internal combustion. They get full power all through the RPM range, not just at the high end.

  6. 6.

    Yutsano

    December 4, 2016 at 2:23 am

    @efgoldman: I’ll ask my friend the physicist doctoral student tomorrow but I don’t think so.

  7. 7.

    Sebastian

    December 4, 2016 at 2:31 am

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:
    When this is all over it will be Baldwin who has saved us all.

  8. 8.

    Arclite

    December 4, 2016 at 3:17 am

    Adam, that video you posted is nothing compared to this vid. A guy made a portable Tesla gun that shoots three foot lightning bolts you can actually touch. Then they recorded it at 28,000 FPS.

  9. 9.

    Glidwrith

    December 4, 2016 at 9:12 am

    @Arclite: Action starts at 6:16 – real life Ghostbuster pack!

  10. 10.

    wenchacha

    December 4, 2016 at 10:42 am

    I got to take a trip in my friend’s Tesla last year. Sweet ride, and we even had a super-charger or two on the trip.

    Electricity is in my veins, yo. My dad was an electrician, and I sure shocked him! Also, our son built his own Tesla coil for an art project in college. Plasma is purty.

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