MRI story

[qbee42]

Originally Posted by amm0bob

They can't...

It wasn't a nail... it was a metallic recorder used to transmit whatever he smelled to the mothership... it is one of the only ways that our alien overlords can determine when it will be the right time to invade.


I'm surprised there isn't someone (obviously it would have to be an alien drone) trying hard to cover this thing up and bury it entirely...

How do you suppose they inserted it? I mean, look, if they went through the usual route...

Tom

[dogfriend]

Originally Posted by qbee42

How do you suppose they inserted it? I mean, look, if they went through the usual route...

Tom

That's why it took 30 years for it to come out the other end.

[amm0bob]

Originally Posted by qbee42

How do you suppose they inserted it? I mean, look, if they went through the usual route...

Tom

Yes...

I believe you are right... it was probably inserted in the usual manner... during the alien abduction examination and all...


Kinda like that fella that was a lumberjack that was abducted and returned later...

Except... he was naked... and he remembered how he was examined...

Maybe it was a different alien mothership.

[jayman]

Originally Posted by amm0bob

Kinda like that fella that was a lumberjack that was abducted and returned later...

Except... he was naked... and he remembered how he was examined...

Maybe it was a different alien mothership.

That was probably a consensual human-alien relationship. Though he probably didn't understand some of the more alien (HA!) courtship rituals, which is why it didn't work out

Once you go Alien, you don't go back ...

[amm0bob]

Originally Posted by jayman

That was probably a consensual human-alien relationship. Though he probably didn't understand some of the more alien (HA!) courtship rituals, which is why it didn't work out

Once you go Alien, you don't go back ...

Soooo... like the lumberjack dude was dumped then Huh...


Maybe this fella was too when he was a younger fella, and he is just in denial.

[jayman]

Originally Posted by qbee42

vibrational analysis equipment. FFTs again, but a different application.

FFT's, linear approximations ... it's all good. That is, all exciting and hair raising (Not that I know what *that* feels like anymore...).

Originally Posted by qbee42

I don't have a sense of humor. I have been programmed to simulate a sense of humor.

Good programming job. They even knew how to handle the hot restart groups

Originally Posted by qbee42

I thought we should ship each MRI system with a big tub of Crisco. You get a fat person in for a scan, you strip them naked and smear them with Crisco - problem solved.

The only wrinkle - smirk snicker - with that plan would be the obvious kinky folks lined up down the block, just waiting to get their "special" MRI.

You wouldn't even need a real, expensive MRI machine. Just a facsimile, as long as you had the tub of Crisco

Originally Posted by qbee42

It *was* amusing. A whole class of female technicians and I had to entertain them for a week. Oh the sheer drudgery of working for a living.

Yeah poor fellow, I *really* feel sorry for you

Originally Posted by qbee42

You give it a little push and it falls over slowly, just as if it were in a viscous fluid. The strong magnetic field induces eddy currents, which oppose the motion of the coin.

Yep, that is a neat science experiment. You could also use that parlor trick to scare zealot religious folks. "OOoooooohhh run! The Evil Spirits are about to emerge from the dastardly machine! Run!"

Originally Posted by qbee42

I wouldn't try it with one of your Canadian "fake" coins. The magnet would rip it from your fingers and send it flying through the bore, only to nail you in the face when it came yo-yoing back.

Actually, that would be a damn good prank. Just make sure the victim has one of those hockey goalie masks on to deflect the coin from the soft tissues of his face

Originally Posted by qbee42

Yes, very new stuff. Sometimes these things move faster than expected, but this one is still a ways off.

Admit it, you *really* get off on that stuff, don't you? It's like when I receive my latest issue of Defense Electronics and I giggle and prance around like a little school girl

[jayman]

Originally Posted by qbee42

"HssssssssPOP!...thud...ssssssssCRASH". The "sssssss" part is the sound of a greased naked fat body sliding over linoleum before crashing into the door at the entrance to the suite.

I'm pretty sure I saw a really *bad* porn movie - back in the early 80's - with a plot just like that. It was SOOOOOOOO bad it was funny, even the parts that were supposed to be kinky

[jayman]

Originally Posted by qbee42

Whatever they did managed to overload it, and the amp burst into flames. As is usual in these situations, panic was the normal response. Not knowing what else to do, the two techs grabbed the smoking amplifier, ran through the waiting room, and tossed it out the door onto the sidewalk. I imagine that was very reassuring to the waiting patients.

Oh bunny, that is priceless

If the techs had a sense of humor, while running with the flaming, smoking amp through the waiting room, they could have yelled out

"Run! It's gonna blow!! Run for your lives!!"

But seriously, have you ever managed to innocently make a piece of equipment burst into flames? I was testing a stationary radar system that had older AN/FPS-19, which was made by Raytheon. Quite the impressive vacuum tube gadget

When I was working on it, that was the transition to the GE AN/FPS-117, a solid state system. The -19 was already pretty old when I got to it, at least as old as I was, maybe a few years older.

I hadn't realized that the reason why it was acting up was due to rodents. Mice had gotten into the structure, and every time a mousey managed to make contact, it was instantly cooked, caused a glitch, then once the short cleared, it started working again. A nice intermittent glitch

So with a few of my team members, I had the brilliant idea of just cranking it right up to either clear the fault, or make the borderline component finally quit. I wasn't looking forward to going out there and cleaning waveguides

So the instant I cranked everything up, peak power around 140 KW which made the onsite generator struggle, my team dropped a large heavy box BOOM. This startled the mice in their warm nest, they scurried out across all the magnetron support equipment, and

KABOOOM!!!

Like the 4th of July inside there. Heavy smoke from the cooked magnetron, power supply racks, etc, filled the entire room. It also smelled of burnt fur and cooked meat

From that day on, I had the nickname "Puff, the magic dragon"

[dogfriend]

Originally Posted by jayman

I'm pretty sure I saw a really *bad* porn movie - back in the early 80's - with a plot just like that. It was SOOOOOOOO bad it was funny, even the parts that were supposed to be kinky

I hesitate to ask:

What did the cover of that VHS tape look like?

[jayman]

If I remember correctly, the cover had a guy with typical early 80's do, with a *very* serious look on his face. Not one of the known porn guys. The lady had this look of surprise, and her hand across her mouth, as if gasping in surprise

Even the cover art made me giggle