False EconomiesSometimes the cheapest option isn't the right one. I fondly remember my neighbours going to a well-known catalogue-based store and buying the cheapest lawnmower they stocked. How we laughed as they realised it had non-rotating wheels and died when presented with grass. Tell us about times you or others have been let down by being a cheapskate.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 12:42)
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Particle acceleratorsI was a lab assistant back in high school, and I remember the instructor asking me to look through a lab supply catalog for items that might be useful. I came across particle accelerators for less than two dollars each. What could those be? Maybe not as powerful as what they have at CERN, but hard to tell based on the cursory description. Curiosity got the better of us, so we ordered a few. Proto-zorbs, much like this:
(, Wed 25 Jun 2014, 7:17, 3 replies)
Subjective valueI bet there are many times more people who would find a way to enjoy some deluxe marbles than would have the first clue what to do with a hadron collider.
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A catapultwould also qualify.
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but surely that would produce a linear speed, rather than a steady acceleration?(
drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Wed 25 Jun 2014, 16:27,
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