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If you like your shower hot and steamy then this
is
the dream invention for you.
You see, I love thunderstorms. I love watching
lightning ripple through clouds. I love the
similarity
between a night-time thunderstorm and the
flashes
of cannon fire inside massive clouds of gunsmoke.
I
love the drama.
Installing a storm soundtrack, stereo and van der
Graaff generator in your bathroom allows you to
go
to work in the morning on a high.
A hot shower, a decent fog and 500 "lightning
strikes" can only be good for the human psyche,
on
a Monday morning. Take your shower in a
thundercloud, right in your own home.
Turn it off before you step out of the shower,
wet
and naked. Electricity follows paths of least
resistance. You may be the path least resistant.
(Originally posted 24 Oct 2005)
or perhaps you like the idea without electrocution.
Home_20Thunderstorm_20Simulator
[FlyingToaster, Feb 06 2013]
[link]
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Lightning could be simulated easily enough with
strobes programmed to go off at random intervals
and of random duration, or, better yet, triggered
by the stereo soundtrack. There wouldn't be any
need for actual static generators, thus no need for
the risk of electrocution. |
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I'd be more concerned about the storm soundtrack
putting me to sleep; in fact, my "Thundering
Rainstorm" CD has exactly that effect, and I use it
for that purpose, when I need to go to sleep in a
hurry. |
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We will put a 1MV Tesla coil in the mail to you this very day … |
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There was a rain, but not thunder, generator in the Film Noir Home. I too like thunderstorms and an indoor version would be great. It might require a pretty hefty subwoofer and amplification system though. |
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I doubt a Van der Graaf generator is going to work properly in a humid atmosphere. |
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But I shower with kitty and kitty is frightened of
storms. No more shower with kitty. I stay neutral on
this one. (And not really). |
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// I doubt a Van der Graaf generator is going to work properly in
a humid atmosphere // |
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We demand an immediate practical test … |
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^simple observation that shuffling your feet on the carpet works in dry weather. |
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And then someone thought it was another farting idea! I like storms...[+] |
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I love thunderstorms! Especially the big, nasty BOOM-
CRASH ones we get around here. |
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A morning thunderstorm puts me in a good mood for the
rest of the day. |
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Thunderstorms must be pretty rare where you live... |
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"The problem is not that we have too many fools, it's that the lightning isn't distributed right." - Mark Twain |
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I simulate the sound of thunder via the expellation of flatus in my bathroom routinely. |
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Does not smell like thunder though. |
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Your anal fixation is wearing a little thin, [Kansan]. |
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I'm a little surprised that you would like lightning storms given how devestating the wild-fires are way down under there. |
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I'm still skeptical about how many fires are caused by
lightning, [2fries]. |
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They've caught and prosecuted more than 30 people for
just that, in the last couple of years. One of them may
have started a fire that killed more than 30 people, in
Feb 2009. |
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Sad. We get a lot of that here too but fewer convicitons it seems. |
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As for the idea, I like it. Fire up the tesla coil and spread out the rubber mats. |
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They only ever catch a percentage of them. |
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