[ot] fastest and safest way to discharge a rechargeable battery?

[Jay Nugent]

Greetings Ric,

On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Ric Moore wrote:

> > What happen if someone threw a fully-charged into a cup of water? Or say
> > some water spilled onto the full-charged battery...
> 
> The CRM114 Discriminator just went off. Klaxons are wailing at the NSA,
> dogs are straining at leashes and search lights are sweeping the
> compound about now. You're not planning on getting on an airplane any
> time soon are you?? Asking questions like this, in a public forum, might
> get you put on someones list, ya know. <grins hugely> 
> 
> A beat-down with nightsticks by humorless jackboots at the airport
> lounge is not a remote possibility in this age of Fear, Uncertainty and
> Doubt. It could become a personal and in-your-face possibility. 
> <a knowing nod>  
> 
> I guess we'll get to watch the action when some teenaged tourist videos
> the entire episode going "Hey! That's RUDE man!", yelling at the
> uniformed assailants, and later posts it on youtube with moral
> indignation. 
> 
> Meanwhile, the international man of mystery walks calmly through the
> metal detector, smirks and tips his fedora to the attendant as he boards
> his international man of mystery flight to Kowloon, for a nice lunch of
> dim-sum and champagne. First class, but of course. He is later served on
> washed silk table linen by an equally international Dragon Lady of
> mystery. She whispers "I am your dessert." He nods back, knowingly.
> 
> Meanwhile back in the states, our Mister Chang is dining from a
> compartmented tin plate, using an orange plastic spork on a C-130 also
> on an international mystery man flight to Guantanamo, after they removed
> his hood and half of his handcuffs to allow him to eat. 
> 
> "I was just curious about the possibility of doing it!", he cries to the
> hooded and armed characters surrounding him. "We're gonna water-board
> this one for sure, Sarge... as soon as we arrive.", drawls one of the
> grim jackboots with great severity and with a measure of anticipation
> for the upcoming enjoyment of the event. His smile is hidden beneath his
> hood. He knows himself to be of the dark side, an international man of
> mystery.
> 
> These pain killers are grrrrrrreat! Ric

   You need to be writing short stories, Ric.  You are wasting your
talents sitting in your rocking chair out on the front porch in your night
robe, drinking JD and watching the deer run across the fields.  That's
just WASTEFULL man!  Fire up vi and get to writing!  Hitler wrote an
entire book while he was in lockup, ya know, and HE didn't have that
wonderful tool 'vi' ;-)


      --- Jay
             
"Getting rid of terrorism is like getting rid of dandruff.  It cannot
 be done completely no matter how hard you try." -- Gore Vidal
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