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haleys_comet
Starship Captain
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« Reply #4 on: 08-09-2002 00:04 »
« Last Edit on: 08-09-2002 00:04 »
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Proffessor: That's right, animals in desperate need of rescue. You see, Vergon 6 was once filled with a super dense substance known as Dark Matter, each pound of which weighs over 10,000 pounds. Leela: Wait, what about the animals? Proffessor: Well, Dark Matter is extremely valuable as starship fuel. That's why it was all mined out, leaving the planet completely hollow Leela: Yes, but what about the animals? Proffessor: The what? Leela: The animals Proffessor: I didn't say anything about animals. Now, it seems the planet will collapse within three days. Incidentally, this will kill all the animals
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Nixorbo
UberMod
DOOP Secretary
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My internet browser heard us say the word "Fry" and found this movie on Philip Fry. It also opened my calendar to Friday and ordered some french fries.
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scottbot
Crustacean
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Interesting thing... I just stumbled across some info on one Philo T. Farnsworth.... apparently he invented the television, had a role in creating radar, and did some experiments with inertial fusion... I found it on the webpage of an inventor/hobbiest who wants to investigate Farnsworth's expired patent on inertial electrical fusion. Here's the blurb... Philo was single handedly inventing broadcast television and designing all of the electron tubes (transistors are still two decades in the future) necessary to make it work. Sadly, shortly after his first public demonstration, the Japanese sucked us into World War Two. The government drafted Philo and put him to work at MIT's Radiation Laboratory where he developed a new toy, dubbed RAdio Detection And Ranging. As you may know, many people believe that radar won W.W.II (whereas the nuclear bomb only ended it). Clearly, Philo was a fairly bright individual. Now, let's fast forward to the 60's. The cold war is in full swing. Television has become the Boob Tube. Philo is working as a wage slave at International Telephone and Telegraph. At this time ITT had an active nuclear physics program and the hot topic was controlled fusion. I don't know the circumstances, but apparently Philo learned about the fusion problem and realized that he already knew how to solve it. In his earlier work with electron tubes he had developed a diode tube to handle enormous currents using what he termed virtual electrodes (actually, inertially confined plasma). The device consists simply of a spherical wire grid inside of an evacuated spherical conductive shell. Placing a high negative potential on the inner grid causes ionization of the residual gas and acceleration of the cations towards the center of the device where a high density plasma is formed. This plasma is then continuously bombarded with high energy cations. Philo figured that if the tube was filled with a mixture of deuterium and tritium (two heavy isotopes of hydrogen that undergo fusion at relatively low energy) the plasma density and bombardment energy of his virtual electrode diode should be sufficient to initiate stable fusion. It worked great, generating lots of fast neutrons, helium and energy and Philo filed several patents (all assigned to ITT). About the same time that Philo was having success with his fusion reactor, ITT decided to ax its nuclear division. Philo was forced into retirement and died shortly thereafter. One of his collaborators from ITT got a look at what the Russians were doing with magnetically confined plasmas and loudly announced to the physics community that Tokomaks were the wave of the future for fusion research (this may have been due in part to disillusionment with all things ITT and the realization that ITT still held the patents on IEC fusion, essentially placing this area of research off limits to him) and IEC fusion was forgotten. The site is http://members.tm.net/lapointe/Main.html . The page on Farnsworth is http://members.tm.net/lapointe/IEC_Fusion.html . Or search google for some other, mostly boring biographies. One interesting tidbit from them... Farnsworth felt later in life that with TV he had created a monster. He felt that the programming was all worthless and that he had made it possible for people to waste their lives. Naturally, he didn't let his kids watch TV.
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[RSA]Top-Dogg
Crustacean
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isnt plasma just a wery heated material? so wouldnt it just melt the container?
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Teral
Helpy McHelphelp
DOOP Secretary
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Farnsworth: "Oh, I always feared he would run of like this. Why? Why? WHY? Why didn't I break his legs?"
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Chump
Urban Legend
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Originally posted by Joe25: "I suppose it is technically possible, although I am already in my pajamas"... Oddly, this was said twice, in the first 2 episodes. I think it was intended to be a catchphrase of "Good News Everyone!" proportions... but it never continued. The other is: "My goodness! I should do something! But I am already in my pyjamas..." (Falls asleep) Or something like that.
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Nixorbo
UberMod
DOOP Secretary
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"The last time aliens invaded they just seperated the most intelligent of us and forced us to mate continuously. Oh yes . . . "
"I'm beginning to think there won't be any mating at all!"
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Melllvar
DOOP Secretary
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Farnsworth: "I'd like everyone to meet our new employees. ... *whispers* Which ones are new?" Hermes: "The green dude, and the fat mon." Farnsworth: "Hmmm, I could swear I've never seen that robot before either." Bender: "I'm Bender. You know? The lovable rascal." Farnsworth: "Ohh, yes!" *looks at Hermes and shrugs*
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Guy
Professor
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Farnsworth: (Talking to new crew members) You'll be the Captian, you'll be the delivery boy, and you'll be the dissobediant, foul mouthed robot. (Fry, Bender and Leela enter) Farnsworth: Oh, God you're alive! I mean thank God you're alive. (To 3 strangers) Sorry, check back in a few days, a week at most.
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Juliet
DOOP Secretary
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Oh I knew he would run off like this, why, why didn't I break his legs!
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Bendo
Starship Captain
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Leela: You know what would be a hoot? Farnsworth: No! Why would I know that?! From Mother's Day when Fry and the rest walk in on Mom and Farnsworth after they have, well you know. Farnsworth: Oh, yes. RM
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Teral
Helpy McHelphelp
DOOP Secretary
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Leela: "Here you go. Hot off the nebula." Farnsworth: "None too soon! While you where gone the Trotters held a newsconference to announce I was a "jive sucker"!"
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WhatAreYou
Crustacean
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farnsworth: Bad news, nobody. The super-collider super exploded
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