What’s this? I can talk into a clump of plastic and wires over here and you can hear me from the other side of the planet a millisecond later?
AWESOME!
August 20, 2008...12:01 am
#957 The telephone
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What’s this? I can talk into a clump of plastic and wires over here and you can hear me from the other side of the planet a millisecond later?
AWESOME!
14 Comments
August 20, 2008 at 9:50 am
That would be the telephone as opposed to the cell phone.
August 20, 2008 at 10:34 am
You know what? I love your blog. It reminds us that the little things we take for granted in life, like the telephone. Are truly AWESOME inventions.
August 20, 2008 at 11:31 am
Is it just me, or does the writer just seem to be phoning this one in?
(…groan…I know! but it was too hard to resist.)
August 20, 2008 at 11:52 am
From illegal naps, to fresh sheets and picking boogers… your site makes my day AWESOME!!
Thanks for posting early everyday too: )
August 20, 2008 at 2:46 pm
uhhhh, picking boogers?
August 20, 2008 at 2:47 pm
um wat is this blog about? ramdom stuff?
August 20, 2008 at 9:41 pm
I suppose I can only blame myself for not arriving early enough to make the phoning it in joke.
August 20, 2008 at 10:42 pm
very nice..
lol!
(its kinda an inside joke. you have to say “very nice” with a sort of inflation or accent, rather. that makes it funny. of course, this isnt very funny to any random person. just my friends and i. unless you get the joke. then its funny for you too.)
August 23, 2008 at 7:22 pm
Hah! I wonder if you phon–
Oh, dammit.
September 13, 2008 at 11:20 pm
Witchcraft, that is what phones are is witchcraft.
February 1, 2009 at 9:09 pm
One of the greatest inventions. And e-mail never took over the phones either.
February 27, 2010 at 11:56 am
“other side of the planet a millisecond later”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_electricity “66% to 96% of speed of light”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_light “299,792,458″ meters per second. “the length of Earth’s equator 134 ms”.
Divide by 1/2 (“other side”) = 67ms.
66% to 96% = 42ms to 64ms.
It is still AWESOME.
July 16, 2010 at 3:10 am
I thought they meant the song telephone. Cuz THAT makes me happy
August 19, 2010 at 12:12 pm
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