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To: neverdem

The real reason for AC is to torture electrical engineering students.


3 posted on 11/20/2011 10:09:11 PM PST by Sequoyah101 (Half the people are below average.)
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To: Sequoyah101
The real reason for AC is to torture electrical engineering students.

I thought it was to torture live sound guys with 60 hertz hum.

6 posted on 11/20/2011 10:21:06 PM PST by xjcsa (Ridiculing the ridiculous since the day I was born.)
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To: Sequoyah101

Edison had an elephant electrocuted to try to get his picked.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr6xBz-h99U&oref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fresults%3Fsearch_query%3Delephant%2Belectrocuted%26oq%3Delephant%2Belectrocuted%26aq%3Df%26aqi%3D%26aql%3D%26gs_sm%3De%26gs_upl%3D5751l10835l0l12163l8l8l0l0l0l0l2538l2538l9-1l1l0


13 posted on 11/20/2011 10:48:06 PM PST by packrat35 (America is rapidly becoming a police state that East Germany could be proud of!)
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To: Sequoyah101
The real reason for AC is to torture electrical engineering students.

Ironically, Edison promoted his DC current (versus Tesla's AC) by doing a road show where he executed elephants.

37 posted on 11/21/2011 2:06:20 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Sequoyah101

It was really a plot to make it difficult for students to gain admittance to grad school, preying on their susceptance to fads, while impeding their progress, taxing their capacitance to learn, and overcoming their resistance to doing so.


43 posted on 11/21/2011 4:11:28 AM PST by Erasmus (I love "The Raven," but then what do I know? I'm just a poetaster.)
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To: Sequoyah101
The real reason for AC is to torture electrical engineering students.

"imagine" that?

Only a EE geek would find that funny...

46 posted on 11/21/2011 4:18:16 AM PST by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Sequoyah101
"The real reason for AC is to torture electrical engineering students."

I'm in awe of double Es. My understanding of AC ends at right about this neighborhood:


50 posted on 11/21/2011 4:51:36 AM PST by SnuffaBolshevik (In a tornado, even turkeys can fly.)
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To: Sequoyah101

BTTT


52 posted on 11/21/2011 5:11:56 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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