George Goble (GHG) [EXTENDED HOME PAGE]
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Dec 1996 Scientific American (200K)
Lafayette Journal & Courier
article which ran on 10/5/96. (245K)
Indianapolis Star
article which ran on 10/9/96. (104K)
BBC audio (2 min, 935K) taped by Bill Ricker
in RIFF .wav format.
Same file with modified
header (in .au format) in case your player wont grok the first file.
Same file in Real Audio
format (96K)
WFBQ Bob&Tom Show 10/8/96.
8:47, 8Khz, mono, .au format 4.2MB.
Acrobat (PDF format) scan-ins of the winner list (100K) and 1996 Ig Nobel "program guide" (800K). Both were quickly OCR'd in, and may have font or spelling errors. The program guide is in random order until I can sort the pages.
Still photo
or an
MPEG MOVIE of lighting of the grill
with 3 gallons of liquid oxygen. Started with 60 lbs of
charcoal, and burnt up 40 lbs of it in 3 seconds. Result
is a grill ready to cook in about 3 seconds, and all the
old grease, etc burned off. Don't try this at home.
WARNING: an ignition source, such as a lit cigarette or one glowing coal, must be present before pouring on the LOX. If charcoal is PRESOAKED in LOX first, an explosion will result. One briquette presoaked in LOX is approx equiv to 1 stick of dynamite.
Thanks to Joe Cychosz (3ksnn64@ecn.purdue.edu) for shooting
the video and to Todd Birchman (birchman@ecn.purdue.edu)
for converting the video to an MPEG.
Click on the
to hear the audio
from the grill lighting.
Since GHG hadn't lit a grill for a couple of years,
Allan Knies begged him to do it once more.
Approximately 10 gallons of liquid oxygen were dumped onto
two grills. Click on each pix to see a larger version with
more resolution and colormap. The bucket on the end of the
board holds 3 gallons of LOX. Liquid oxygen is a pale blue
color (like the sky) and slightly magnetic. These jpegs were taken
from video taken by Joe Cychosz (3ksnn64@ecn.purdue.edu)
and Jeff Sponaugle (jbs@ecn.purdue.edu).
Even though taken in bright sunlight, the high brightness of the
fireball, caused the camera to underexpose the background,
giving the appearance of a "bonfire at night".
It was decided to "sacrifice" a cheap (on sale for $2.88 at
OSCO's) grill to the fire gods. It was loaded with charcoal,
with one briquette smoldering, and 5 gallons of LOX were dumped
on, causing the grill to melt down and then almost completely
vaporize.
It's gone.
6 mins, 2850 Kbytes.
Complete sound track from the Sept 3, 1994, grill lighting.
MPEG MOVIE (9772 Kbytes) of lighting of the grill.
A QUICKTIME VERSION (with sound!) of this SAME movie (20 megs, 8 FPS 180x240).
Another QUICKTIME VERSION (with sound!) of this SAME movie (20 megs, 8 FPS 180x240). This may work on more viewers.
Indianapolis Star, July 4, 1996, jpeg, 330K, reprinted with permission, another grill lighting.
taken by bystanders on location, during the Indianapolis Star photo shoot.
Dave Brauer radio talk show on KSTP, Minneapolis/St Paul, about this homepage, 7/4/96, 10 min (.au 4798K) copied with permission.
LOPEZ radio talk show on WIYY, Baltimore, about this homepage, 2/4/96.
Runner up for best web page in Indiana (Indiana Univ Won)
Dec 96 Indiana Business Magazine
Due to the massive network & machine overload, from the Dave Barry article, this homepage is now split into two pieces. You have just finished part one. (BBQ grill)
The T1 internet link
(1.544 megabits/sec) between Purdue and ANS
(The Purdue onramp to the Information
Super Highway) was maxxed out (traffic jam?) the entire week following
the Dave Barry Article. At times nearly 500 people were reading this
homepage concurrently. 95% is the maximum usable bandwidth, with the remaining
5% being for routing overhead. ANS data courtesy of Jeff Schwab, Purdue Univ
Computing Center. Normal utilization is around 20-25% (40% peaks)
