Excruciatingly Large Things

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Making machines: 'The Lego Hapsichord' and 'The God Light'

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Two superb links today. I have noticed recently a thriving online community devoted to Lego engineering projects. Everything from an A-Team Van replica to a fully working Rubic's cube have passed my gaze. Today though I found the bees knees in design. A fully working Hapsichord, make almost entirely out of Lego. This must be seen to be believed - Link. Lego rocks...

Making amazing music machines out of small blocks of interconnecting plastic is one thing, but how about a machine that can:
"...reverse Parkinson's disease symptoms in one patient, shrink and eliminate breast cysts in another, reduce the size of cancer tumours in lab mice, regenerate plant growth, and hasten seed germination..."
Don't shout it too loud or everyone will want one! Well if its inventor has anything to do with it The God Light will soon be effecting everyone's lives. Can you re-write the laws of physics? The God Light can, but not after in its former carnation, as The Angel Light, it caused its inventor all manner of difficulties:
"The Angel Light came to Troy Hurtubise in a dream, but ended up causing him nightmarish problems.

The invention, Hurtubise said, was able to see through walls, detect stealth technology and disable electronics.

But there was a negative side effect to the Angel Light, Hurtubise soon discovered; repeated exposure to the light caused him to lose weight and facial hair, and he suffered a significant downturn to his health."
Where can I get me one of those? Check out the two part full story here - pt1 and here - pt2 . With a name like Troy Hurtubise who wouldn't believe every word he uttered (or every law of physics he re-wrote)?Also, check out this link for an older story about Troy's Fireproof Paste...

"“It can stand up to the heat of re-entry to the earth’s atmosphere, and then they can simply wash it off."
Thank God (light) for Troy and his incredible haircut...

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