<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">*biting tongue* <div><br></div><div>Must. Not. Comment.</div><div><br></div><div>Although "Bacon Fruit" would be a good name for a rock band...</div><div><br></div><div>Still, some seriously awesome engineering. It's amazing what pure oxygen can do for, er, rapid oxidation. :)</div><div><br><div><div>On Apr 17, 2009, at 11:21 AM, Sæmundr inn skærr wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Oh no.. I am definately not a vegitarian. I must have misrepresented myself. I am pure bred Bacon Enthusiast. Hum, would a bacon rapier blade be legal? I dont see any reason why not.. but I am also envisioning myself licking my blade while trying to thrust with it. eck.. that entire sentence brought out other visions.. I better stop while I am behind.</div> <div> </div> <div>Lorenzo<br><br></div> <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Jacq Ball <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jacqball@gmail.com">jacqball@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Well, I know that our group includes:<br>* Bacon enthusiasts (Ithrael, etc.)<br>* Metal working enthusiasts<br> * Duct tape enthusiasts<br>* Science geeks<br><br>So I though a lot of people would be interested. In your case, you<br>might prefer the vegetarian version demonstrated at the end of the<br>video.<br><br>Technically, there has been some quibbling over whether or not it is<br> actually bacon. To quote the author:<br><br>"The challenge isn't creating the heat; it's engineering a bacon<br>structure strong enough to withstand the stress of a 5,000°F bacon<br>plasma flame."<br><br> "I used prosciutto (Italian for "expensive bacon") because it is a<br>superior engineering grade of meat."<br><br>I think it's nice to see someone use "superior engineering grade of<br>meat" in a sentence. Is not English a beautiful language?<br> <br><br><br>2009/4/17 Sæmundr inn skærr <<a href="mailto:saemundrthepure@gmail.com">saemundrthepure@gmail.com</a>>:<br> <div> <div></div> <div class="h5">> I cant look at the site from here.. but my first thought is "How shameful.<br>> Bacon is a tool of love.. a fruit from the gods.. it shouldnt be used to cut<br>> something.."<br>><br> > Lorenzo<br>><br>> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Jacq Ball <<a href="mailto:jacqball@gmail.com">jacqball@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>>><br>>> Have you always wanted to cut through steal using bacon? Popular<br> >> science has this interesting feature showing how to do it. It starts<br>>> like this:<br>>><br>>> "I recently committed myself to the goal, before the weekend was out,<br>>> of creating a device entirely from bacon and using it to cut a steel<br> >> pan in half."<br>>><br>>> Turns out though, that he had to use duct tape as well.<br>>><br>>> <a href="http://www.popsci.com/bacon" target="_blank">http://www.popsci.com/bacon</a><br> >><br>>><br>>> -Jacques<br>>> _______________________________________________<br>>> Namron mailing list<br>>> <a href="mailto:Namron@lists.ansteorra.org">Namron@lists.ansteorra.org</a><br> >> <a href="http://lists.ansteorra.org/listinfo.cgi/namron-ansteorra.org" target="_blank">http://lists.ansteorra.org/listinfo.cgi/namron-ansteorra.org</a><br>><br>><br>><br>> --<br>> Are you looking for Jim or Sæmundr? Find them both at:<br> > <a href="http://sites.google.com/site/saemundrofnamron/" target="_blank">http://sites.google.com/site/saemundrofnamron/</a><br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Namron mailing list<br> > <a href="mailto:Namron@lists.ansteorra.org">Namron@lists.ansteorra.org</a><br>> <a href="http://lists.ansteorra.org/listinfo.cgi/namron-ansteorra.org" target="_blank">http://lists.ansteorra.org/listinfo.cgi/namron-ansteorra.org</a><br> ><br>><br>_______________________________________________<br>Namron mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Namron@lists.ansteorra.org">Namron@lists.ansteorra.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.ansteorra.org/listinfo.cgi/namron-ansteorra.org" target="_blank">http://lists.ansteorra.org/listinfo.cgi/namron-ansteorra.org</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Are you looking for Jim or Sæmundr? Find them both at: <a href="http://sites.google.com/site/saemundrofnamron/">http://sites.google.com/site/saemundrofnamron/</a><br> _______________________________________________<br>Namron mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Namron@lists.ansteorra.org">Namron@lists.ansteorra.org</a><br>http://lists.ansteorra.org/listinfo.cgi/namron-ansteorra.org<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>