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Stephen Hawking unveils the most morbid, amazing $1.8m clock you'll ever see
http://www.engadget. ^
Posted on 09/20/2008 11:35:10 PM PDT by Justice Department
The bizarre Corpus Clock visually explains that it relies on grasshopper escapement to function, and to let you know that time can never be regained once lost, that beast on top actually gobbles down time every 60th second. Oh, and every hour, on the hour, the sound of a "chain dropping into a wooden coffin" is played to really pound home the "time is a destroyer" concept. Thanks for the reminder, Dr. Grim.
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Science; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: clocks
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To: Justice Department
All right, who has the rabbit with pancake graphic?
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posted on
09/20/2008 11:37:29 PM PDT
by
denydenydeny
("[Obama acts] as if the very idea of permanent truth is passe, a form of bad taste"-Shelby Steele)
To: Justice Department
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posted on
09/20/2008 11:38:33 PM PDT
by
Westlander
(Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
To: Justice Department
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posted on
09/20/2008 11:38:54 PM PDT
by
Justice Department
("Comedy is allied to justice." Aristophenes)
To: denydenydeny
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posted on
09/20/2008 11:40:54 PM PDT
by
Justice Department
("Comedy is allied to justice." Aristophenes)
To: Justice Department
I do believe he’s gone completely mental.
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posted on
09/20/2008 11:42:39 PM PDT
by
Silly
(PalinLove.com)
To: Justice Department
I read the article twice and I still have no idea what the author is talking about.
To: Westlander
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posted on
09/20/2008 11:44:11 PM PDT
by
Justice Department
("Comedy is allied to justice." Aristophenes)
To: Justice Department
To: Justice Department
Hawkings ... stick to science.
That clock looks positively Lovecraftian/Geigerish.
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posted on
09/20/2008 11:48:22 PM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(McCain/Palin 2008 : Palin the Paladin 2012)
To: denydenydeny
To: TheWasteLand
"I read the article twice and I still have no idea what the author is talking about."
Something about a grasshopper clock, I think.
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posted on
09/20/2008 11:51:58 PM PDT
by
Justice Department
("Comedy is allied to justice." Aristophenes)
To: Centurion2000
"Lovecraftian/Geigerish."
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posted on
09/20/2008 11:57:06 PM PDT
by
Justice Department
("Comedy is allied to justice." Aristophenes)
To: Justice Department
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posted on
09/21/2008 12:00:26 AM PDT
by
CE2949BB
(McCain/Palin 08)
To: Justice Department
Back in 198? (early eighties anyrate) His book “A Short History on Time” came into print and I read it (interesting).
Back then, he was supposedly on death’s doorstep, with no more than months left to live.
Thirty-odd years later...
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posted on
09/21/2008 12:01:42 AM PDT
by
DieHard the Hunter
(Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fà g am bealach.)
To: denydenydeny
To: Justice Department
beast on top actually gobbles down time every 60th second. Oh, and every hour, on the hour, the sound of a "chain dropping into a wooden coffin" is played to really pound home the "time is a destroyer" concept. Thanks for the reminder, Dr. Grim.
"BOOM ... DEE ... AHH ... DAH"
To: Justice Department
It is ugly. And it is not accurate except every so often, from what I read.
Really a dumb item.
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posted on
09/21/2008 12:12:10 AM PDT
by
Dudoight
To: Silly
Has he ever had a child, he was married I think.
To: Justice Department
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