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- addiggt, on 07/06/2009, -14/+696*Sigh* That wasn't as great as I'd expected. I was waiting for my face to blow up or something.
- Tunguska, on 10/11/2007, -5/+354A Scanner Darkly
- Wonderkind, on 10/11/2007, -9/+312I was gonna try this once but I was afraid my scanner would get sucked into an alternate universe.
- PsychoticClown, on 10/11/2007, -4/+256Must've been really boring that day in the office.
- KMye, on 10/11/2007, -3/+176Pointing the video camera perfectly at the TV screen you've hooked the camera's output into is still my favorite...
- doctorfungi, on 10/11/2007, -8/+175Actually I kind of expected a really bright light... surprised me.
- bungula, on 10/11/2007, -0/+125site's down.
Anyone got a mirror? - diazamet, on 10/11/2007, -3/+99@cornloaf:
Dude, you've got a weird shaped head! :-) - roxya, on 10/11/2007, -1/+90Yeah, it takes a really really long time to scan a mirror.
..... - KMye, on 10/11/2007, -3/+89I think if we had a year's moratorium on that joke, it could be funny again, in moderation...
- pastaq, on 10/11/2007, -8/+91Now the real question! If a mirror were traveling at the speed of light would it double the speed of light or reflect nothing? hmm....
- noamsml, on 10/11/2007, -2/+77You're the first one to mention God.
- ateam, on 10/11/2007, -3/+77All those scratches on that mirror... perhaps from a razor? I wonder what HE'S using it for...
PS: If you don't get this lame joke, consider yourself lucky :-P - Cornloaf, on 10/11/2007, -9/+77@sepultura
That's what kinda happens when you put your face on a scanner :
http://www.deadagain.com/grub.jpg - po43292, on 10/11/2007, -2/+64I was hoping to see a naked woman.
- GMorgan, on 10/11/2007, -9/+68In Soviet Russia, jokes have moratoriums on You!!
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -10/+68I do those kind of bizzare experiments when im on LSD too, so fun...
- CatsAreGods, on 10/11/2007, -5/+59Dugg because the original article demonstrates the spirit of hacking, or at least serious curiosity.
- JoshuaH, on 10/11/2007, -0/+54Isn't that considered piracy?
- vdog, on 10/11/2007, -3/+52From the comments:
nyctosf:"Seems like the mechanism is not that "The light from the scanning device is reflected back", but rather that the light emitter is positioned an inch or two away from the reader, presumably in order to cut down on glare on shiny surfaces.
The light bounces off the mirror and misses the reader entirely, except where the scratches are (which do diffuse the light).
If the light and read heads were exactly aligned then you would expect to see all light." - Dayyve, on 10/11/2007, -6/+54I thought it was going to be the face of satan staring back at you with evil toner-black eyes. Boo letdown!
- ursername180, on 10/11/2007, -10/+57OH DEAR GOD! I... I'm bla... I'm black?!?!?
- kuek1991, on 10/11/2007, -1/+44what do you get from scamming papers?
- windhawk, on 10/11/2007, -0/+42The best Flickr comment:
"I xeroxed a mirror. Now I have an extra xerox machine." -- Steven Wright. - WZot, on 10/11/2007, -4/+46Infinite tunnel, yeah.
- JoshuaH, on 10/11/2007, -2/+44Alright, Now I want to know what happens when you put it in a microwave.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+40.... and what happens if you scan a scanner?
- silverchrysalis, on 10/11/2007, -1/+38the same people digging you down
- DMDekoth, on 10/11/2007, -2/+34I was expecting a divided-by-zero scenario. I like infinite tunnels. *points webcam at screen*
- cruzlee, on 10/11/2007, -1/+32What happens when you scan a pirate?
- vdog, on 10/11/2007, -0/+29Enough with that already. The joke is dead. Let it rest in peace.
- stryker2you, on 10/11/2007, -0/+28I shot the sheriff but i didn't shoot the deputy....
That was what he was referring to...obviously he's high.
This crap is too much for a Monday morning. - Adamesq, on 10/11/2007, -1/+28It's always amusing when people take the time to comment on the original poster having spare time on his/her/its hands.
This is a great experiment that proves once and for all that your reflection truely is not there when you're not looking...now if we can only figure out that tree in the forest thing. - Mtdewrulz, on 10/11/2007, -6/+33@cornloaf
babyRUTH!
http://www.theplaza.ca/moview/Pics/Films/1985/Goonies/pic4.jpg - jspegele, on 10/11/2007, -2/+25JoshuaH, I hope you realize that you are now directly responsible for serious injuries to at least a dozen diggers. Please comment responsibly next time.
- kozicka, on 10/11/2007, -5/+28http://duggscanner.com
- shamilton61, on 10/11/2007, -0/+22Yes, but only a brand new one. Five minutes after you take it out of the box it shows up mostly white.
- cruzlee, on 10/11/2007, -0/+22@chingy
The problem is that your head is always in the way of that perfect tunnel. The camera + tv solution eliminates that problem. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+23Bloody Mary
Bloody Mary
Bloody Mary
*scream* - idiotwithastick, on 10/11/2007, -7/+28With the video camera thing, do you get an infinite tunnel or something?
I would just do it myself, but I don't have a video camera. - kayosthery, on 10/11/2007, -1/+22I bet the result would be different if you were place the scanner on a plane trying to take off from a conveyor belt......
- notjamt9000, on 10/11/2007, -0/+20Here you go:
http://james.nerdiphythesoul.com/cdscan.png
(DVD, CD-R, CD) - gfnw, on 10/11/2007, -0/+20Indeed.
"neagu_stefan_florin says:
amazing image! wonder how they scanned the mirror."
WITH A ***** SCANNER. - turquoisefish, on 10/11/2007, -4/+23lol
- Philluminati, on 10/11/2007, -5/+23Can someone actually explain this properly?
I'd expect a white image, or perhaps a silver one. Why is the mirror black exactly. is it a reflection of the black components in the scanner or what? His explanation doesn't make sense. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+18Try tilting the camera while zooming in on any onscreen graphics like the time or date, you get some trippy colorful spinning *****, looks really cool.
- LexisNexis, on 10/11/2007, -0/+17If you use a two way mirror on one side you get a front on view of the infinite tunnel effect instead of looking from an angle.
- Nok1, on 10/11/2007, -9/+25@pastaq
No it wouldn't, since the speed of light is the fastest that anything can go. In classical physics, if you were traveling in a car, and shot a bullet from the front of the car, the velocity of the bullet would be related to the sum of the two velocities (car and bullet), Now if you had a rocket traveling nearly the speed of light (approaching it, since to accelerate something to the speed of light would take infinite energy..) the physics gets "fuzzy" and is related more to quantum mechanics rather that classical physics - please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_light#Constant_velocity_from_all_inertial_reference_frames for a more thorough explanation. - Hepburn82, on 10/11/2007, -8/+23It figures, I suppose.
- fpssledge, on 10/11/2007, -2/+17ROFL that was the funniest thing I've seen all morning. Mostly because it was the most lame joke ever.
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