X-rays detected from Scotch tape

Syxx_Killer · 10-23-08, 09:50 AM

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081023/..._surprise#full

This is quite interesting. Who knew?!

SteamWake · 10-23-08, 10:05 AM

The russians did evidently

Jimbuna · 10-23-08, 11:23 AM

Well.......no more wrapping my christmas presents in the vacuum room for me

bookworm_020 · 10-23-08, 05:02 PM

So does this mean that it will have to carry a health warning now to avoid possible law suits????:hmm:

FIREWALL · 10-23-08, 05:10 PM

Makes you wonder what a stapel from a stapel gun emits. :p

Letum · 10-23-08, 05:23 PM

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"We were very surprised," said Juan Escobar. "The power you could get from just peeling tape was enormous."

...."enormous" being many, many times less than the power required to peel the tape. :hmm:

Task Force · 10-23-08, 06:23 PM

Hmmmm, what are they gona find that we use thats gona kill us next.

kurtz · 10-23-08, 08:53 PM

This may be a false memory but I seem to remeber someone saying if you peel sellotape in a dark room you can see flashes from it.

Or was it that sellotape is called durex in Oz?

XabbaRus · 10-24-08, 02:33 AM

X-Ray tape, a new tool for Batman.

Digital_Trucker · 10-24-08, 12:10 PM

Oh crap, now I'm gonna need a second layer of tin foil to protect me :rotfl:

Task Force · 10-24-08, 03:44 PM

Ya know, people have been using scotch tape for years, and people havent been dropping dead from it...

I think.

Jimbuna · 10-24-08, 05:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Digital_Trucker

Oh crap, now I'm gonna need a second layer of tin foil to protect me :rotfl:

ROFLMAO :rotfl:

CCIP · 10-24-08, 05:35 PM

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Originally Posted by bookworm_020

So does this mean that it will have to carry a health warning now to avoid possible law suits????:hmm:

Yes, it will say "DO NOT USE IN OUTER SPACE"

Produces some very interesting cosmology theories as well, such as that x-rays originated during the big bang when the sticky tape holding the original singularity together ripped apart. Which leads to the fact that the current universe started simply because God used a poor-quality brand of sticky tape in an effort to keep it together :p

FIREWALL · 10-24-08, 05:38 PM

Just in case I'm going to wear a lead pot on my head while wrapping Xmas presents this year.

Diopos · 10-24-08, 05:39 PM

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Originally Posted by CCIP

Quote:

Originally Posted by bookworm_020

So does this mean that it will have to carry a health warning now to avoid possible law suits????:hmm:

Yes, it will say "DO NOT USE IN OUTER SPACE"

Produces some very interesting cosmology theories as well, such as that x-rays originated during the big bang when the sticky tape holding the original singularity together ripped apart. Which leads to the fact that the current universe started simply because God used a poor-quality brand of sticky tape in an effort to keep it together :p

Always thought that there was much more in "Made in China" than meets the eye!

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