I dunno how many of you guys saw the new Mythbusters on Wednesday night, but they were testing Tesla's supposed invention of the Earthquake Machine. It was interesting.
In other news, over the course of three days, six earthquakes hit Indonesia. Hmmm...
Also, I have some very important news. The famed artist Martin Creed (I'd never heard of him either) has opened up a new exhibit, appropriately titled Work No. 227: The Lights Going On and Off. That's right. Don't you love modern art. Basically, the exhibit consists of a plain room--white walls, just a room of any size the gallery happens to have--in which he has programmed the lights (well, controlled by a laptop) to turn off and on at intervals of five seconds. Yes. This masterpiece--which won a notable prize--(note the sarcasm) brought to you by the same artist who brought you Work No. 88: A sheet of A4 paper crumpled into a ball. Mmhmm. Right. And people praise him for his genius. My favortie quote from the article (http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2007/09/13/on_and_off/?page=1) must be "'This guy got 20,000 pounds for demonstrating the same artistic talent as a defective circuit breaker,'" said by Dave Barry.
Mmhmm.
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I didn't see it but I've seen the first time they tried the Tesla Earthquake Machine, was this a remake? They couldn't get it to work before.
You know, I think I might actually prefer the art where I have no idea what it's supposed to look like...
Jared said that the military is actually experimenting with machines like this, and they would use it on enemy's fault lines to tear down their economy.
I saw one when they tried one of Tesla's things on a bridge, but I can't remember how it turned out. I think it was busted.
It's very possible, John, that it was not a new episode. However, it was on on a Wednesday night, when their new episodes air, and I had never seen it, and came to the conclusion that it was new. But I could've been wrong. And it was indeed busted.
And that'd be an interesting use, Tyler. I doubt it'd be the same machine, considering the earthquake machine is nothing more than an oscillating rod and piston, but certainly the tactic would be at least somewhat effective.
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