Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Set Fire to the Sea

Is this true? We can burn salt water with radio waves. Why is the world not already a different place? And, if it works, what would we use to put out the fire?

8 comments:

  1. I feel I must advise you to slow down, Bryan. You can't keep up this pace. I incidentally see from the ST mag that David Hockney says, "I hate Gordon Brown. I really hate him. They're taking away our liberties and there's noone saying a thing."

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  2. Doesn't he read this blog then? Too busy painting his Trees Near Warter, I suppose...

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  3. Most painters are, I believe, illiterate, Nige.

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  4. I think I've got it at last:

    "The Owl and the Pussy-cat donned flame-retardant overalls and went to sea
    in a beautiful pea-green boat"

    Hmmn, nope.

    "The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea
    in a fireproof survival capsule"

    Damn. Back to the drawing board, then. I wonder if this thing could be uninvented?

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  5. From the link, here is a sentence that truly ends with a full stop: John Kanzius has found a way to burn salt water with the same radio wave machine he is using to kill cancer cells.

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  6. I can just hear the Southern Baptists: This is another sign of the Apocalypse -- water being turned into fire!

    Now, David Hockney -- I love his water, those beautiful blue swimming pools filled with nekkid men. Today, I rather wish I had a swimming pool.

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  7. i went to his (Hockney's) school, also Delius', and Denis Healey's, and that of people in Idlewild and Franz Ferdinand, oh and Harry McEvoy's too (a breakfast cereal magnate, apparently).

    i didn't learn anything though. Except that it's better to do a solitary sport like cross country running (through the red light districts of Bradford) than rugby. Bradford whores are marginally preferable to Hitler Youth rugger buggers.

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  8. what can we use to put out the fire? Classic FM.

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