So was the "dotted pattern" some sort of secret inter-baby communication code?
"Painful to live in fear, isn't it?" Leon: Blade Runner

In my day, we used to watch paint dry for excitement. Now, you get to go to a gallery to watch water evaporate. Progress.

Think you'll find that many bizarre patents were made simply to show that the patent office has to grant patents to anything (in the U.K., at least). Just a hobby for loonies.

Why the 'chute? Did they lack the faith that they could land the thing?

A friend recently died from colon cancer because he didn't get checked. That's in poor taste, too.

"The rise of e-mail"? They only just figured that out?

Same here in Canada - once a week would be fine. Preferably the day before the recycle truck comes by.

So does Google translate "haute couture" as "sucker born every minute"?

He got full marks in spite of mixing Metric and Imperial units? So much for education these days.

What is "staggering" and "absurd" is the number of people in US jails in the first place.

Cool, but I don't think you can consider it flight unless it leaves ground effect. The Spruce Goose had the same limitation on its only (attempted) flight.

Not sure I'd laugh at them, Larfin, given that there's likely a lot more bombs around now than when that leaflet was made.
But the tidy path is a nice touch - wouldn't want to damage the lawn when the apocalypse happens.

@Cat: The battery current limitation has nothing to do with the resultant shock. All a matter of capacitance times volts. You know those bug zappers? The ones that look like badminton rackets? I replaced the capacitor in one with a cap about a hundred times larger; when you zap a bug, the noise actually makes your ears ring. Now *that's* a bug-zapper! (Around the same energy an electric fencer puts out - painful, but it ain't gonna kill you.)

FWIW, here's some sliced cameras (and a carb I cut apart)... https://picasaweb.google.com/westcarleton/CarbSlice

Similar footage was used in Koyaanisqatsi.

Overkill. A joystick controlling the two motors is a lot easier.