Jam Police Radar with Cold Plasma

[The Flavored Coffee Guy]

Did you know an effective electrostatic generator can produce plasma?
Well, if you get one of these electrostatic dusters, and place it
inside a 3 inch diameter PVC pipe you can generate quite the static
charge by allowing the air to flow through it as you drive. The PVC
should be 12 inches longer than the duster's fibers.

http://www.ettorecleaning.com/product-1385-Poly-(Static)-Duster.aspx

At that fine point, all you need is some aluminum foil and glue that
to the outside of the PVC pipe and strap it to the roof of your car or
truck. It may take 4 or 5 of these before your car will glow in the
dark or actually produce a plasma dense enough to absorb Police
Radar. In theory, it should work.

If not the alternative is a 300KV voltage muliplier and venting the
charge into the air as you drive. A much more complicated circuit.

 

[John Fields]

On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 20:12:08 GMT, "dBc" <not_necessary@thanks.com>
wrote:

Greetings "The Flavored Coffee Guy"..

Regarding:
"At that fine point, all you need is some aluminum foil and glue
that to the outside of the PVC pipe and strap it to the roof of
your car or truck. It may take 4 or 5 of these before your car
will glow in the dark or actually produce a plasma dense enough
to absorb Police Radar. In theory, it should work."

I think this would qualify for Jeff Foxworthy's, you might be a
redneck if...

You should be aware that many of the police agencies are now
using laser guns for moving violations. In a fraction of a
second, they've got a readout. However, you might provide some
hilarious amusement for folks driving by with all that on top of
your car/truck!

Something to consider..

Cheers,
Mr. Mentor

You might want to lay off the excessive consumption of too much
coffee! Let me guess, you're an 18-wheel truck driver or longing
to become one?

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Greetings "Mr. Mentor"..

On USENET it's generally considered wise to lurk a while before
posting, so I'm sure you just missed the part where bottom posting (or
in-line posting, when appropriate) is considered the appropriate
protocol.
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JF

 

[John Fields]

On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:42:46 GMT, "dBc" <not_necessary@thanks.com>
wrote:

Greetings JF..

Etiquete on Usenet - you've GOT to be kidding..

Cheers,
Mr. Mentor

The mere thought has got me chuckling, although I DO sincerely
appreciate the amusement.

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Etiquette...

While the concept may be foreign or, possibly, even repugnant to you,
even Google advises bottom posting:

From:

http://groups.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=12348&topic=250

"Summarize what you're following up.

When you click "Reply" under "show options" to follow up an existing
article, Google Groups includes the full article in quotes, with the
cursor at the top of the article. Tempting though it is to just start
typing your message, please STOP and do two things first.
Look at the quoted text and remove parts that are irrelevant.
Then, go to the BOTTOM of the article and start typing there.
Doing this makes it much easier for your readers to get through your
post. They'll have a reminder of the relevant text before your
comment, but won't have to re-read the entire article.
And if your reply appears on a site before the original article does,
they'll get the gist of what you're talking about."

Note that "following up" implies trailing instead of leading.

JF

 

[John Fields]

On Thu, 01 May 2008 06:03:22 GMT, "dBc" <not_necessary@thanks.com>
wrote:

Greetings John..

Regarding:
"While the concept may be foreign or, possibly, even repugnant to
you, even Google advises bottom posting:"

While I appreciate the consideration, I REALLY don't care what
Google believes as "appropriate."

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You miss the point, which isn't what Google Groups considers to be
appropriate, it's that they're advising the use of a method which has
come to be appropriate on USENET itself.
---

I'm not using them now for
newsgroup access and have no plans on using them for newsgroups.
If you're using a newsgroup reader that lists the thread in a
chronological time order, not an issue anyway.

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The way a newsreader threads posts is largely immaterial in that if
all of the posters in the thread top-post then every post will have to
be read from the bottom to the top, and anyone entering the thread
"late" will be at a loss to find out what's going on without having
to go through the mental gyrations of straightening everything out.

For example, Had you bottom-posted your reply to my last post, there
would have been no need for you to excerpt:

"Regarding:
"While the concept may be foreign or, possibly, even repugnant to
you, even Google advises bottom posting:""

you could simply have posted your reply at the bottom of my post and
then the whole picture would have been very clear to anyone looking in
for the first time, since they would have had a sense of time flowing
down the page instead of up the page, in spurts, which is not how we
write in English.

But again, you miss the point, which is that the considerate way to
post is by replying to a post in a way that is easiest for a reader to
follow, and that's from the top down.
---

There, you see,
you didn't even need to scroll down to the bottom of the listing
to get the reply. Thus, not too much work for you, John.

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It would be a lot less work for me and everyone else here if, when in
Rome, you'd do as the Romans do.

JF