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Potatoes Help Wi-Fi: Boeing Engineers Use Spuds to Improve Wi-Fi
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| Sunday, December 23, 2012
Posted on 12/23/2012 9:57:15 AM PST by nickcarraway
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To: alloysteel
But then, wouldnt they just explode, unless a number of fork-punctures were put in them first?
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After using the ‘baking potatoes’, sealed in plastic with instruction to NOT poke holes, I have been baking potatoes just by rinsing off and wrapping in paper towel and nuke for about 8 - 10 minutes.
Actually found out by mistake when I neglected to puncture potatoes and they didn’t explode.
Maybe the outside water helps?
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posted on
12/23/2012 11:21:52 AM PST
by
xrmusn
(6/98 "It is virtually impossible to clean the pond as long as the pigs are still crapping in it")
To: nickcarraway
So, Boeing researchers have discovered that, in some instances, a sack of potato is more useful than a human.
Liberals will be incensed about the replacement, because, those "jobs" were ideal for their constituencies, who just like to sit around.
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posted on
12/23/2012 11:58:21 AM PST
by
adorno
(Y)
To: nickcarraway
So, Boeing researchers have discovered that, in some instances, a sack of potato is more useful than a human.
Liberals will be incensed about the replacement, because, those "jobs" were ideal for their constituencies, who just like to sit around.
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posted on
12/23/2012 12:01:51 PM PST
by
adorno
(Y)
To: SkyDancer
>> “In flight internet is really expensive.” <<
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When we flew on LAN-Peru last month, they were not charging anything.
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posted on
12/23/2012 12:05:33 PM PST
by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
To: nickcarraway
Large, lumpy passengers: Couch Potatoes.
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posted on
12/23/2012 12:09:47 PM PST
by
USMCPOP
(Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
To: nickcarraway; a fool in paradise; Slings and Arrows
used sacks of potatoes as stand-ins for passengers Perfect! The truth comes out.
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posted on
12/23/2012 12:15:28 PM PST
by
Revolting cat!
(Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
To: nickcarraway; a fool in paradise; Slings and Arrows
Passengers about to board.
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posted on
12/23/2012 12:17:03 PM PST
by
Revolting cat!
(Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
To: editor-surveyor
On a recent flight to Atlanta on Alaska Air, them’s the prices. I mean can you go four hours without having to check your email? The airports have free WiFi.
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posted on
12/23/2012 12:35:31 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
(Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
To: nickcarraway
Synthetic Personnel Using Dialectic Substitution Do they mean, like, using Hegel's theory instead of Marx's?
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posted on
12/23/2012 12:51:57 PM PST
by
Erasmus
(Zwischen des Teufels und des tiefen, blauen Meers)
To: KarlInOhio
Back in the early 80’s, our outfit introduced our first low-power CMOS microcomputer.
Somebody got the idea of powering it with lemons. They stuck a copper electrode and a zinc electrode into a lemon, and then put two or three of these in series, giving enough voltage and current to run the micro and an LCD displaying the time of day.
They showed it off at a couple of electronics conferences, and then our marketer brought it back to the office in a plastic box and stuffed it under his desk.
A month or two later when he dredged up the box, the lemons were all moldy and LCD was blank. But he squeezed the lemons, and lo! it sprang back to life, and had actually been keeping time the whole while.
Then there’s the hamster-powered clock whose software I wrote, but that’s another tale.
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posted on
12/23/2012 1:03:44 PM PST
by
Erasmus
(Zwischen des Teufels und des tiefen, blauen Meers)
To: nickcarraway
I knew a guy in High School who used a potato for a car antenna, after his aerial got snapped of.
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posted on
12/23/2012 1:40:08 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: nickcarraway
It turns out that potatoes because of their water content and chemistry absorb and reflect radio wave signals much the same way as the human body does, making them suitable substitutes for airline passengers. Sitting inside an aluminum tube with wi-fi is like sitting inside a microwave oven. There is iron in every cell of the human body, and iron is how blood carries oxygen, which is what gives blood its metallic taste. Iron is also the key element in a radio antenna. It doesn't seem likely second-hand wi-fi has absolutely no ill effects.
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posted on
12/23/2012 2:31:00 PM PST
by
Reeses
To: Reeses
What about earth’s magnetic field? Magnets pointing north works in a lot of different kinds of environments.
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posted on
12/23/2012 3:21:18 PM PST
by
jjotto
("Ya could look it up!")
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