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The Curious Case of Dr. Megavolt
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This Wednesday, October 31st, while your offspring plop down on your living room floor after a long evening of Halloween pillaging and grow plump with high fructose corn syrup, I ask--nay, URGE--you to witness the awesome power of electricity taunter Dr. Megavolt on WIRED Science. By day he is Austin Richards, a quiet man whose actual job has escaped my memory, no doubt due to a magnetic field he must have whipped up while laughing in the face of Zeus himself. To the lay person, he may look like a guy in a mesh suit with twisty ties and a bird cage for a helmet, BUT MAKE NO MISTAKE---he is wielding forces greater than you know and respect must be paid that he not turn his freakish powers against us, melting the very flesh from our bones in brilliant arcs charged with the particles of revenge!!!
*WATCH...as he toys with electrical power like a swift feline bats the timid mouse
*SEE...Electric Potential dance in the fields of Man
*ENJOY...the get-up
Michael Faraday hails, "Electrifying!"
Benjamin Franklin says, "A triumph!"
Nikola Tesla exclaims, "My coil! My beautiful, beautiful coil!!!"[throws up booze]
PS-There'll be a bunch of other sciencey stuff on the show, too
Tags: Austin Richards, electricity, marshmallows, Megavolt, WIRED Science
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November 5, 2007 6:06 PM
adam strange IggG
Sorry guys, but after watching this show a few times, I'm convinced "irreverent attitude" means "trying to be funny". There is some interesting content punctuated by plenty of long uninteresting, many times uncomfortable, attempts at info-tainment...not quite entertaining, not quite informative, and without question, unfunny. sorry. you get an A for effort! ;)
November 5, 2007 9:41 PM
Chris Hardwick
Adam, you almost had a constructive post. Humor is subjective and I completely support the fact that you don't think the show is funny. No problem there. To say that the show is "not quite informative," though, is "not quite intelligent." The show is nothing BUT informative, and I defy you to prove otherwise. Where else are you seeing stories on regenerative medicine? UAVs? Architecture for Humanity? Superstrings? Peak water? Botnet warfare? If your life is so rich that you live in some sort of data bubble where none of this is news to you then the rest of us mental plebs should be so lucky. And a winking emoticon? REALLY??
PS--thanks for watching!
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