10-04-2002, 08:46 PM
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So my dad's car caught on fire today...
The story as my brother told it...
A neighbor across the street knocks on our door and my brother answers it. "Who is it?" "Is that your minivan outside?" "Yea, why?" "There's flames coming out of it." So then my dad and brother run outside. We didn't have a fire extinguisher, so my dad put it out with some help from the garden hose. Which leads me to my question. If I put the van on eBay, will people still bid even though there was a fire under the hood? (my dad is totally through with the '92 grand voyager and wants nothing to do with it anymore) On a side note, my new shades from Campmor came in today.   |
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10-04-2002, 08:57 PM
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ur on a side note sentance reminded me of a quote from my friend that his Junior Block history teach said.
"Thomas Edison invented electricity, and on a side note he was def as a child." |
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10-04-2002, 09:13 PM
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Re: So my dad's car caught on fire today...
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sorry to hear that pass... and i can imagine "someone" will buy it off of ebay... i mean hell... people buy anything (note those many "boxes of products" sold on ebay) and that side note reminds me of this qoute: "pull over!" "what?" "pull over!" "no its a cardigan... but thanks for noticing!" "yea killer boots man!"  from one of my fav movies "Dumb and Dumber"
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10-04-2002, 09:19 PM
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Nice shades! ^^
Was the roof the roof the roof on fire, we dont need no water let the grandvoyager burn! burn voyager burn. Glad no one was hurt. Sorry to hear bout your Dads loss of transpo. -jel  |
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10-04-2002, 09:21 PM
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Thomas Edison is a greedy bastard... Tesla on the other hand, he kicks ass. |
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10-04-2002, 09:32 PM
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he is... from what i hear sho... edison died a while ago...  |
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10-04-2002, 09:47 PM
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is tesla the guy that came up with the idea about the tesla coil?
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10-04-2002, 09:53 PM
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10-05-2002, 12:58 AM
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Nah, he never tried it... although he proposed he could because basically the earth is a giant container of energy waiting to be released. Famous for his oscillators, Tesla said if he can make a big enough machine to do the job, it is possible to split the earth like an apple. His idea involved sending energy waves into the earth which will eventually travel through, hit the other side, and bounce back towards where it came from. When these waves return, the oscillator will then move another cycle and send another energy wave which reinforces the one being reflected. Eventually these waves will carry tremendous energy and can theoretically split the earth. Believe it or not, Tesla worked for Edison when he came over to the US. A lot of his inventions and patents were then taken by Edison... for example, Tesla invented the alternating current (the kind we use at home) when they were all using direct current (Edison's stuff). Alternating current proved to be a lot safer than direct current but since Edison owned and monopolized all of the direct current generators everywhere, he tried his best to stop Tesla from releasing the alternating current. It was then though to be impossible to run anything with alternating current (going to + then - and so forth), but Tesla figured out a way to do so. Throughout his life, many of Tesla's patents were "robbed". For example, many people credits Marconi for inventing the wireless radio where in fact Tesla began the research of radio waves and radio controlled machines waay before Marconi even started his. Imagine how cool it is to watch a man hold a light bulb and by snapping his fingers the bulb turns on like magic. Tesla was always in love with electricity, his mind is like a stream of ideas that's always moving... Edison on the other hand, was the "Bill Gates" of that era. |
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10-05-2002, 07:31 AM
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What about comprehensive insurance? Wouldn't that cover damages caused by a fire?
I seriously doubt that an 11 year old van with fire damage would bring much anywhere. Besides, didn't Voyagers have problems with the transmissions during that period? |
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10-05-2002, 05:28 PM
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so... how did it start? it was just parked, and decided to burn itself??
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10-05-2002, 05:43 PM
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Edison and Telsa has quit a dispute over what kind of electricity (ac or dc) should become the standard for home use. It was reported that Edison would demonstrate the dangers of ac by electrocuting a dog, purportedly doing so using ac current, when in actuality he was using dc (well knowing that it was the more dangerous of the two).
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10-05-2002, 06:15 PM
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Hehe yeah, then Tesla did this to prove how save AC electricity really is:  Read more about Tesla here: http://flyingmoose.org/truthfic/tesla.htm He is certainly one of the most underappreciated inventor/thinker of the last century. |
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10-05-2002, 06:22 PM
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10-05-2002, 06:50 PM
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Lil bit about that Tesla picture I got from a site (appears to be teh site where you got your av pic from sho):
A photograph taken in Colorado Springs during an experiment on December 31, 1899. Tesla reads a book in the background, while several million volts lightnings cascade around the laboratory. The roar that accompanied such discharges could be heard ten miles away. The photograph was obtained using trick photography. Experiment was repeated several times to capture the lightnings and then the inventor would sit on a chair to complete the picture. So he wasn't really in the chair while the lightning was around him? They'd cap the lightning first and then him? |
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10-05-2002, 09:10 PM
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I had driven up to my aunt's house for a funeral ( my cousin, Tonya was engaged to a fire fighter who was killed while fighting a fire) and parked the car in her drive way.
My younger cousin, Dustin, came running in about 5 minutes later saying that my car was on fire. So, we called the fire dept and the guys who had come over from STL to cover while the Alton FD was at the funeral, put the fire out. It was an electrical fire and pretty much shot the car. Sucked too cuz it was my mom's car. |
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10-06-2002, 01:00 AM
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Yeah, according to my dad, it was an electrical problem.
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10-06-2002, 03:57 AM
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speaking about teslas...there is a tesla coil that they opperate in frys. they turn on the monkey every hour or so...it's so freaking cool.
And passwird...busting out that flash was a good add to your picture!
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10-06-2002, 11:36 AM
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yea my physics teacher had a tesla coil in his class room and for open house my friends and i set the thing by the main front door and turned it on so it would shock people as they came in
"great idea" u say? well we thought so too, until some old grandfather came in and when he was shocked went a-wall for like 5 seconds... after that we apologized and moved it letting little kids shock themselves  |
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