How to piss off your neighbors...
This ranks up there on the list of the top ways to piss off your neighbors. First, it looks insane and dangerous. Second, the electrical interference on electronics is wicked. Extra points are awarded for distrupting TV, radio, cell phones, car alarms, and wireless networks. And lastly, not to be repetitive, it looks insane and dangerous.
Of course, a lot of the neighborhood nerds would love to build one of these... simply because it *does* look insane and dangerous. Ain't science cool?!
Sadly, I'm in a neighborhood that isn't very tolerant of having fun. If I built a Tesla coil like this, the cops would be called within a few minutes of the first test firing.
Intolerance is such a downer. They must be right-wing pagans who believe in creationism. (And that's the view from the Vatican!)
"Religion needs science to keep it away from superstition and keep it close to reality, to protect it from creationism, which at the end of the day is a kind of paganism - it's turning God into a nature god. And science needs religion in order to have a conscience, to know that, just because something is possible, it may not be a good thing to do." -- Guy Consolmagno, Vatican
Did I just go off on a tangent? *shakes head*
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