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What Blavatsky didn't tell us is that Bigfoot is a Himalayan (in other words, Atlantean) Yeti who fled to America through the Mount Shasta Vortex in the last days of the Atlantis-Lemuria Hyperwar. I can tell you more for lots of money.

That's true koot hoomi told me

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I hadn't really ever thought about it before @deep-space-netwerk asked, but Toast does spend a lot of time standing on me and staring VERY intensely. He can be kind of intimidating ngl

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IT SPINS! Handmade electric motor! Entirely out of wire! They said it couldn't be done, but I have proven -- it merely shouldn't be done!

Photos don't really capture how ridiculously complicated this thing was to build, so I managed to film myself assembling the components too! Very proud of that.

In total, I've been working on this project on and off for roughly two years. This motor is my third version, though I went through something like seven designs of the commutator section (not counting how many failures it took to build a working example of a given design). I'm very proud of getting this to work at all.

Some close-up photos of all the components:

Six-way commutator. As the motor spins, this delivers electricity to only the correct pair of magnets at a time, leaving the other four off.

Magnet coils. I wound these by hand from very thin insulated wire. The center is a spiral of thicker insulated wire (darker orange) that protects the thin stands from the steel core and then wraps around the outside to hold everything in place.

Spring-loaded arms. These deliver electricity from the stationary frame into the rotating axle. They also have to hinge up out of the way or else there's no room to fit the rotor in place during assembly.

All the components laid out together before assembly.

And the full motor in all its glory!

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cf. Doomslayer, 2016

But have we considered novel applications of the Demon Blade to energy production technologies

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Recent advances in semiconductor technology have finally pushed the Demon Blade above the 30% efficiency threshold in solar energy harvesting, though long-term stability remains an issue.

But have we considered novel applications of the Demon Blade to energy production technologies

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It’s Survivability Onion Sunday

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I get a lot of what I'm pretty sure are real images, but with AI generated text. No human being has ever typed "ditch the outdated narrative about Earth's age; Mesopotamia's got the real juice" or that "things were poppin' off as far back as 4000 BC."

I love what my Facebook feed has become ever since all my friends stopped using it. It's entirely paleontology, ancient aliens conspiracy theories, and the occasional picture of a niece. This rules.

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I love what my Facebook feed has become ever since all my friends stopped using it. It's entirely paleontology, ancient aliens conspiracy theories, and the occasional picture of a niece. This rules.

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hey man i'm going on vacation for 86 yoctoseconds can you watch my pet hydrogen-5 isotope while i'm gone

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now if I had a cybernetic proboscis I would use to inject false memories into peoples heads I to make them more likely to pay me money on twitch but I think that’s ethical if I do it because I’m a sweetie pie.

But I don’t think we should legalize them otherwise

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Unfortunately the Demon Blade is ITAR-controlled, which hampers international collaboration with our partners at the Max Planck Institut für Plasmaphysik on quasi-isodynamic Demon Blade equilibria.

But have we considered novel applications of the Demon Blade to energy production technologies

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I hope to present Demon Blade-catalyzed proton-boron fusion at APS-DPP next year

But have we considered novel applications of the Demon Blade to energy production technologies

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Writing up an ARPA-E proposal for deep geothermal electricity generation with the Demon Blade

But have we considered novel applications of the Demon Blade to energy production technologies

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But have we considered novel applications of the Demon Blade to energy production technologies

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Queueing this post for 2039 when I run for General Assembly on a platform of "you probably could do worse than electing an engineer."

oh btw if any mutuals plan to get into american politics in a big way in the next four or five election cycles, hmu if you need a secretary of energy. I promise I will not palantìr your administration into implementing a 500 ¢/gal gas tax and converting to a 100% nuclear/renewable hybrid power grid (lying)

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it's generally accepted that the meaning of life has something to do with the production, transformation and decomposition of adenosine triphosphate. we don't know a lot more than that but it's my pet theory that it makes the mitochondria happy