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This art project consists of a generator with a crank
attached. The generator is attached to an electrical
heater, so as the crank is turned the heater's output
increases. The public is invited to turn the crank as
much as they like.
There's also a mechanical display on the device that
reads
"Users of this device have generated a total of
XXXXXXXX joules/kelvin of entropy, and have hastened
the heat death of the universe by XXXXXXXX * 10^-5000
seconds."
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Good grief, I literally just posted something very like
this. Total coincidence.
Sorry, ytk. |
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Chaos begets order. An important monument, lest we
forget. |
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I think this is a great idea, but the 'XXXXXXX' bits
lack interest. Have you considered putting numbers
there instead? |
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I think they were meant to be Roman numbers,
[Max]? |
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They are numbers, [Max]. They're just in base 36, and
the machine happens to have already been used quite
a bit at this point. In fact, with just 161,206,280,427
(base 10) more J/K generated the display will roll over
to 00000000. |
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The problem is that the number of joules would only
be an estimate, depending on the size and
gastronomic efficiency of the user. |
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//the 'XXXXXXX' bits lack interest.// |
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Have you never seen Japanese government bonds before? |
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The display shouldn't say "Users of this device have generated..." - "generated" sounds dangerously like they're creating new energy, rather than converting it from chemical energy into kinetic or heat energy. |
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//"generated" sounds dangerously like they're creating new energy// |
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Some self-promoting artists from an opposing school could punk the project by insinuating a bunch of lizard-eggs such that they are incubated by the constant stream of heat generated by the heater. |
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While the original artists are busy making up some neo-post-modern bollo.. I mean, releasing a cultural and semantic context-narrative, to the assembled world media, the lizards could be observed to hatch, at which point someone in a hat could leap out from behind a blank canvas/urinal and announce "Ha! You all thought you were increasing the universe's entropy? Ha! LOOK AT THE LIZARDS!" |
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There are times, [zen_tom], when you and
[theleopard] give every indication of having come
from another planet. |
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Why thankyou (I think), that's very kind. I hope [theleopard] won’t mind me divulging that we are in fact, originally from Bournemouth. |
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//"generated" sounds dangerously like they're
creating new energy// |
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It's the entropy they're generating, not energy. |
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You hear so much about entropy. Entropy entropy entropy. It ceases to have much meaning. But Enthalpy - that is something else. Where do you hear about Enthalpy? Barely anywhere. It is like polically correct phlogiston. It has that thalpy freshness! If this idea could be retrojiggered to have more Enthalpy it would have my bun. |
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I've been feeling a bit enthalpy lately, to tell you the
truth. |
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Gibb's Free Energy = Enthalpy - Temperature x Entropy, right? There must be a joke in there somewhere, but it escapees me. |
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The acceptably multiethnic ladies and recently-hired
female-to-male transgendered individual down at the
Heathen Institute for Inadvisably Applied Science &
Singular Plurality inform me that if the crank handle, or
perhaps the cooling vanes, were painted with Titanium
Oxide enamel, the Entropy Machine could be made up to
0.006% more enthalpic and would produce sevenfold the
current volume of phlogistonic atmospherons. |
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Are they the ones with the Birkenstock sandals,
crooked teeth, frizzy hair and flat, shapeless breasts,
[Alter]? |
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I hate that Singular Plurality. There is never enough to go around, and people start scraping the enamel off of stuff. |
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