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Black Hole Sunday

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The Black Hole was a somewhat un-Disney-like Disney film, released in 1979. My limited knowledge of what would actually happen if you fell into a black hole, courtesy of Dr. Stephen Hawking, leads me to believe that the action was highly accelerated in this film. But I can say with sincerity that as a kid this movie and the creepy scientist gave me the heebie-jeebies. The movie posters sure looked cool though!

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Now THAT’S My Kind of Marxism

The Lucid Science Mk. 1 High-Voltage Rock Disaggregator in all its glory.

The Marx generator is a simple circuit designed by Erwin Marx in 1924 to create very short bursts of very high voltage.  It charges several capacitors in parallel, then once a spark gap reaches the necessary breakdown voltage, the capacitors discharge [...]