Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #00604
To: dennison dennlill@buffnet.net, beam beam@corp.sgi.com
From: Sean Rigter rigter@cafe.net
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 18:35:56 -0800
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: classy and cool SOLAR FLYTRAP
One could argue that converting light to kilovolts to ashes is a more
direct and perhaps less painful energy to death conversion.
dennison wrote:
>
> you know, 20kv sounds fun and all, but wouldn't it be cool if you could make
> a REAL SOLAR powered fly trap? You could make it solarpowered and experiment
> with Muscle wire for control. Or using a mag-bot type deal, make something
> that shuts very fast. This way you could make an elegant plantish type beam
> animal. Even better, why not make a beam plant that closes itself on a
> photovore? And perhaps when it closes it can cover the photovore with little
> wires, so as to short the photovore out, and effectively (but temporarilly)
> 'kill' it.
>
> Thats my idea of a biomorhpic flytrap.
>
> Dennison
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