Quote from: gadgetmall on December 04, 2009, 10:02:31 PM
The bit about the Magic powder is real . A man Grew his chopped off finger above the knuckle completely back , finger  nail and all . From his Scientist Brothers powder made from Pig intestines/bladder . . Believe it or not . http://www.boingboing.net/2008/03/24/pig-bladder-powder-r.html
http://multi-medium.net/2008/03/31/the-magic-of-pig-bladder-powder

Some things cannot be explained like >1 that can be SEEN and are POTENTIAL science :
Lee Spievak cut his finger off and then regrew it using pixie dust.

    "I put my finger in," Mr. Spievak says, pointing towards the propeller of a model airplane, "and that's when I sliced my finger off."

Wow, Lee, wow. Reminds me of the time I stuck my tongue in an oscillating fan.

    Today though, you wouldn't know it. Mr Spievak, who is 69 years old, shows off his finger, and it's all there, tissue, nerves, nail, skin, even his finger print. How? Well that's the truly remarkable part. It wasn't a transplant. Mr Spievak re-grew his finger tip. He used a powder - or pixie dust as he sometimes refers to it while telling his story. Mr Speivak's brother Alan - who was working in the field of regenerative medicine - sent him the powder.

The pixie dust, or more appropriately "pigsy dust", is actually made by scraping the cells from the inside of a pig's bladder, treating them with acid, and turning them into a powder. In addition to smelling like urine, the magical substance can regrow fingers lost in the propellers of model airplanes. Scientists hope that within 10 years we will be able to regrow arms and legs. Cool, scientists, but let's think outside the box for a second.

So whats this got to do with Pauls Ultracapacitor thread ....OPEN MINDEDNESS !!

don't be so open minded your brain falls out. a quick google pulls up be for and after pics, he lost just the tip,not the finger not the nail.

Quote from: fritznien on December 04, 2009, 11:39:55 PM
don't be so open minded your brain falls out. a quick google pulls up be for and after pics, he lost just the tip,not the finger not the nail.

Yes it was ,I saw him on TV Unexplained mysteries  . It was cut OFF to the joint !! besides what difference does it make . the dam thing grew Back .. gEEZ

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=3805459n

@ Bill,

Quote from: Pirate88179 on December 04, 2009, 07:24:17 PM
Jim:

It depends.  Glass and some plastics shield long wave UV but it is the short wave UV that does the damage.  (I hope I don't have this backwards...I don't think so)  I don't know of anything that will shield the short waves and still allow visual monitoring except maybe by filming with a video camera that has "night vision" and playing it back thereby preserving your eyes.

As an aside, in the PI business we use those hand held spot lights of like 2 million candlepower (Q-beam, etc) to which we add an IR filter.  Then we can shoot on night scope and paint the area we want to video up to about 600 feet away. (It shows up like shooting in broad day light)
I know UV and IR are different but, for some reason, I can also see UV on my camera on this setting as well.

Bill

Wow, 600 feet of area litup and it carnt be seen by the eyes, that I would love to actually see happen.

This UV business, I better keep the thing off until I find out more about it, seems safer that way,
Thanks Bill.

jim

@ Paul,

Hi man, after a busy day I tuned in here for a good read, but had a belly roll of laughter instead he he.

Anyway, lets not forget the real reason for this thread, it's to check out Gadgets claim that these SC are pritty smart doovas.

So Paul, how did your day go, hows the software proceeding, and what success have you had with it today?




@ tishatang,
Sorry my friend, I had to fly into town, something more urgent came up, the cow went dry and I don't like just black tea, then the daughters PC picked up a nasty trojan horse so I brought her PC back home to give it the once over.

@Bill,
Thanks for the email mate, TA

@ Gadget,
If MH sits on a ordinary cap, it'l shock him and instant, if he sits on a SC, he will fry for hours, could hurt a lot more.

jim


 

Quote from: electricme on December 05, 2009, 07:37:51 AM
@ Paul,

Hi man, after a busy day I tuned in here for a good read, but had a belly roll of laughter instead he he.

Anyway, lets not forget the real reason for this thread, it's to check out Gadgets claim that these SC are pritty smart doovas.

So Paul, how did your day go, hows the software proceeding, and what success have you had with it today?

Hi Jim,

There was a little bit of joy today. Everything's going great so far. Good grief knock on some wood somewhere. I spent my spare time today doing some preliminary tests on a 40000 uF capacitor to make sure it's all working. I've added a new little software feature that shows the continuous total energy, live. So I can see how it's going as the experiment progresses without the need to analyze the data logger files after the experiment. Also there's two new custom buttons, Charge, and Discharge. Anyhow, it took 0.0019 joules (1.9mJ) to charge the 40000uF cap to 0.297 volts, and the total energy that discharged from the capacitor was 0.0015   joules (1.5mJ). For this particular setup that makes the 40000uF cap 79% efficient. Note, this has nothing to do with how efficient the circuit is, but how efficient the capacitor itself is. There was about a minute delay between charging and discharging the capacitor. So the cap leaked a bit, but that probably wouldn't make too much difference.

It's the weekend, but I shouldn't have too many other things to do tomorrow. So lets hope Sunday is the big UC day. After the UC measurements I'll draw nice pretty circuit diagrams of everything, which consists of the data logger circuit, the dual op-amp circuit, and the mosfet current source. I'm not sure where to post the software .exe file, and the source code.

Regards,
Paul