Comments on: Empower your piston pressure!

by: Jonadab

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 22:24:44 +0000

On second thought, maybe he meant that this device could imbue your fuel line, or wherever you hook it up, with plosion. That's kind of a scary thought, actually.

by: Jonadab

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 22:22:34 +0000

MorganGT: If you're going to be a pedant, do try to get your pedantry *right*. The prefix "em" is not a combination of "ex" and "im", but a different prefix altogether, which I believe implies causation. You can find it in such words as empower, emaciate, embalm, embellish, emblazon, embody, empathize, ... So "emplosion", if it were a word, would probably refer to the act of causing plosion. I can think of several words this article might cause someone to say that start with a plosive (i.e., a consonantal stop), so maybe that's what Amstrad was talking about ;-)

by: TwoHedWlf

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 04:31:14 +0000

I believe it's for an all new type of emplosion engine. It does not need any valves, intake or fuel. It explodes the fuel in the chamber pushing the piston down then implodes it again bringing the piston back up where it's all set to start over again. The super engine then gets you almost twice the power for less complexity and zero fuel burn.

It's the same system KITT used in the original Knight Rider, that's why he never had to stop for gas.

by: MorganGT

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:15:44 +0000

explosion = stuff flies outwards;
implosion = stuff flies inwards;

emplosion must be somewhere inbetween, therefore nothing happens. Sounds about right for such a thing.

When you nail 2 pieces of shit together, use a nice new nail - people will be so distracted by the shiny thing they won't notice the smell of the stuff it is holding together!

by: Red October

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:54:10 +0000

P.T. Barnum LIVES! Indeed, this is two (?) pieces of shit nailed to-gether in a way that two pieces of shit have never been nailed to-gether before, and, sure enough, SOMEONE will buy it and fill the coffers of the person who posted the advert. No doubt the purchaser already has a twisty little bit of aluminium in his intake, a magnet on his fuel line, some sort of crazy jar downstream from the magnet, a widget plugged into his cigar lighter, and doses his car with tablets more frequently than himself. He may or may not also have tinfoil in his trilby.

by: Amstrad

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:55:59 +0000

I must simply reply: EMPLOSION!