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No Darwin Award For Him
But only because he left behind a young daughter. Otherwise, this man, who accidentally killed himself with an exploding lava lamp, would be a contendah...
"It wasn't bubbling fast enough for him," his mom guesses. "Because when we walked in the stove was on at the lowest setting."
Posted by Rand Simberg at November 30, 2004 08:18 AM
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I mean really! Is a Lava Lamp important enough to screw with? It's a Lava Lamp, a novelty that should have long wore off!
He must have been using it as an 'aid' to a halucenagenic experience. Should have just popped 2001 into the ole DVD player!
Posted by Mike Puckett at November 30, 2004 03:35 PM
Another argument for universal education in thermodynamics. Then he'd have known (dP/dT)_V > 0 most of the time.
Posted by Carl Pham at November 30, 2004 09:12 PM
Now it's time for the lawyers, eh? Sue the Lava Lamp manufacturer because they didn't put a sticker on it warning about the use of the lamp with a stove.
Posted by Vulgorilla at December 1, 2004 07:55 AM
Vulgorilla, that was my thought precisely. I'm sure the legal vultures were circling before the coroner arrived.
Posted by Kevin Baker at December 6, 2004 06:46 AM
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