Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] okay, april fools got me

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

> I'm sure you knew better than that -- beaming power?
Tesla originally planned, and spent a lot of money on, beaming power to 
every home through the air. What stopped his plan wasn't technical 
failure but that his investors found out that by nature this would be 
unmetered so they cut off his funding. To bad that we haven't had a 
chance to see if he could have made it work. It certainly is plausible 
though. Beaming power with microwaves is done sometimes but usually it's 
not something you'd want to walk through as you'd probably get fried. It 
is possible they could find a safe way to do it for low household 
amounts of power though.

As always, the best jokes are the plausible ones.
> Another clue:
> "Availability: [ info ]
> No suing"
> Hmmm... "no suing" - that's the first time I've seen that!  They 
> usually limit to "In Stock," "Out of Stock," and "This item ships 
> separately."
I didn't see that part. I just glanced at it before going to work. Just 
long enough to get excited wondering how they'd made that work and 
wanting to get one so I could examine it. Of course I saw it on the 31st 
so for me it wasn't April Fools yet so it took a bit longer to click as 
being a joke.

--
Michael McGlothlin, tech monkey
Tub Monkey
http://www.tubmonkey.com/


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