OT: Brain Plastic (was Re: Nerd Boy, episode 358)
"BoD" <Bo...@JRAF.org> talked their way out of news:3e7c78bb$0$29147$626...@news.free.fr: > Joaquim G�ndara wrote: >> > Are you the guy who normally does Nerd Boy? >> >> Sure. It's just that they replaced my brain with an exact replica. >> It's made of plastic, I think. I'm sure it is, but I can't check >> because then they'll find me. I have to pretend that I don't know. >> >> Why do you ask? > > Plastic doesn't make good brains: it doesn't conduct electricity nor > chemical activity! > But I liked the strip :) > > BoD Discover Magazine 1997 Awards for Technological Innovation finalist: >> U.S. Air Force's Rome Laboratory's All-Plastic Battery >> >> DON DYLIS >> Most batteries are environmental bad guys. They contain lead, >> mercury, cadmium, or other toxic heavy metals that can leak and >> contaminate soil or groundwater. Don Dylis's batteries are >> different. Dylis, a research manager at the U.S. Air Force's Rome >> Laboratory in Rome, New York, has developed a more benign battery, >> made entirely of plastic. Not only is it at least equivalent to >> standard nickel-cadmium batteries in terms of power and >> rechargeability, it's also less affected by cold temperatures and >> can easily be molded to fit into small, awkward spaces. Discover Magazine: http://www.discover.com/awards/arc97/9707-7E.html Headlines @ Hopkins: http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home96/nov96/batt.html (my brains were replaced with plastic, too, but I can't tell you, so I'll just say it really subtly in parenthesis) -Phyeaux ObASCII: LIVE!!! , .------.--= OO .^. | '||' _8=##9_ | bb ][`][ _|_ (Nerd Boy as Dr. Frankennerd in "Frankennerd's Monster")
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