[QUOTE=athelas]
Er, what is a hyperbolic chamber?
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It’s the scientific term for a melodramatic enclosure.
[QUOTE=DocCathode]
No, but I do remember the nuclear boyscout who was trying to make a breeder reactor and ended up with a radium ray gun.
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David Hahn, I remember reading an article on him in the Sunday Times magazine. As mentioned, he scraped the face off glow in the dark watches. He also used IIRC a geiger counter to track down sources of radium, one hunt had him chasing a bus for a pretty innocuous item, but his big hit was the radium paint.
[QUOTE=Little Nemo]
When I was a teenager, I was obsessed with achieving fusion too. But I don’t recall physics being involved.
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Aside from measuring the heat relased from friction during a series of elastic collisions, you mean.
[QUOTE=Triskadecamus]
A very funny misspelling of Hyperbaric Chamber.
Tris
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And if you google “hyperbolic chamber”, the first hit is the Onion article, but it’s followed by a few real articles where the reporter actually used hyperbolic when he meant hyperbaric.
[QUOTE=Sailboat]
I can’t access The Onion from work, but look up their article on the Hyperbolic Chamber…it’s hysterical. It’s the funniest thing ever!!!
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See here. I suppose a link to the picture would be even more wombarific.
