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The Chrysler Turbo Encabulator
YouTube ^ | c. 1977 | Bud Haggart modern-version

Posted on 02/10/2018 11:27:55 AM PST by Voption

"The Turboencabulator or Turbo-Encabulator (and its later incarnations, the Retroencabulator or Retro-encabulator and Micro Encabulator) is a fictional machine whose alleged existence became an in-joke and subject of professional humor among engineers. The explanation of the supposed product makes extensive use of Technobabble."

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TOPICS: Humor; Science
KEYWORDS: encabulator
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Parody Alert. For full background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turboencabulator "The original technical description of the "turbo-encabulator" was written by British graduate student John Hellins Quick (1923-1991). It was published in 1944,in an article titled "The Turbo-Encabulator in Industry" by "J.H. Quick, Student."
1 posted on 02/10/2018 11:27:55 AM PST by Voption
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To: Voption

The modern version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXJKdh1KZ0w


2 posted on 02/10/2018 11:36:42 AM PST by Bryanw92 (Asking a pro athlete for political advice is like asking a cavalry horse for tactical advice.)
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To: Voption

It’s real.

But won’t work without a disgrontificator.


3 posted on 02/10/2018 11:40:01 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Voption

The writer is now principle climate change investigator for the Dimbulbcrat Party.


4 posted on 02/10/2018 11:43:54 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: BenLurkin

or a Gonkgulator....


5 posted on 02/10/2018 11:48:38 AM PST by Voption
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To: BenLurkin

Improvements continue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4ILnWpi8XY


6 posted on 02/10/2018 11:51:11 AM PST by DaxtonBrown
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To: Bryanw92

Yepper!

(Digital-Encabulation was the game-changer!)

I can’t resist:

Halt and Catch Fire, Episode 1,
“Computer’s aren’t the thing...”
https://youtu.be/YQLbi4VXYcA
(0:58)


7 posted on 02/10/2018 11:54:12 AM PST by Voption
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But won’t work without a disgrontificator.

Which can not be built without ample supplies of Unobtanium.

8 posted on 02/10/2018 11:54:39 AM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.L)
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To: Voption

Old school stuff, now it’s nanoencabulation
with Grapholine.


9 posted on 02/10/2018 11:56:06 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Voption
p07
10 posted on 02/10/2018 11:56:55 AM PST by Snickering Hound
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To: tet68

Dr. Roger Penrose has been exploring the nature of Quantum-Encabulation with regards to his Conformal Cyclic cosmology, and the nature of consciousness. But it all remains highly theoretical.

Grapholine might be the way to go, but it’s ungodly expensive to mass produce.

whaddayathink?


11 posted on 02/10/2018 12:01:27 PM PST by Voption
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To: Snickering Hound

That is sooo funny, cuz’ it’s sooo true!


12 posted on 02/10/2018 12:03:02 PM PST by Voption
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And then there was indeed the Chrysler Turbine.

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=chrysler+turbine&FORM=HDRSC2

Funny, as both an engineer and a car lover, I never heard of such a “joke”!


13 posted on 02/10/2018 12:07:31 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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The reader should certainly appreciate the importance of spin-off fictional technology as an adjunct and horizontal expansion of double-Dutch economic expansion and the resulting non-existent jobs that will be created.

A new plant to be built, under the New York State Major Economic Development Initiatives | NYCEDC, responsible for almost 70 new jobs with outlays of as little as 500 million dollars, will be dedicated soon to the production of Tricotimetric Indicator Supports (TIMIS), essential to the further development of the Turbo Encabulator industry.

The Democratic Party is proud to be the exclusive initiator and motive force behind the success of this phase in imaginary economic contraflexulative heteroplexy.


14 posted on 02/10/2018 12:14:17 PM PST by Richard Axtell (So, this is the Third World! What happened to the first two?)
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To: Voption

I guess the remains of that see device might be around the former stalag 13.


15 posted on 02/10/2018 12:26:50 PM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: Richard Axtell

Trichotometric indicator brackets. Please refer to original drawings.


16 posted on 02/10/2018 12:36:01 PM PST by .44 Special (Tiamid Buarsh)
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To: Voption
Inertial Navigation
17 posted on 02/10/2018 12:36:37 PM PST by pabianice (LINE)
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To: Voption

Yes, it’s expensive now but in just 10 years
it will be in every household.
An obscure Italian researcher already claims
to be able to mass produce grapholene and with
only a minor investment you too can get in on
the grapholene boom.

See video of his machine in operation here.

Sorry, file not available...


18 posted on 02/10/2018 1:07:35 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: wally_bert

wally_bert—
You, the Man!
I know exactly, to what you are referring. And I haven’t watched that in a long time. (but I do have the box-set.)


19 posted on 02/10/2018 1:32:01 PM PST by Voption
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To: Voption

I watched way too much TV growing up.

These days I watch the same stuff as back then. It’s either ME-TV or one of it’s cousins or DVDs.

This past week, a few Kojak episodes.


20 posted on 02/10/2018 1:33:44 PM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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