The Prometheus Club - a gentlemen´s club for mad scientists

[groomporter]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtuqjFf7-N4

[Dr von Zarkov]

Groomporter –

Yes, the legendary Turboencabulator! See the Wikipedia entry for details and the script of the presentation.

[Dusza Beben]

HA! I show this video to my diagnostic imaging students as an example of "What your spouse hears when you talk about work."

DB

[Rowan of Rin]

Well, it is official. I am now a science student; Mad Science, here I come! I am studying mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology this year.

[rovingjack]

so you'll be making hyperdimensional ammino acids in no time huh. 

[von Corax]

Well, it is official. I am now a science student; Mad Science, here I come! I am studying mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology this year.

Just remember that the best way to fold a protein molecule is not by folding the space/time it occupies. Also, there is no good way to wash the inside of a Klein bottle.

[Rowan of Rin]

Exactly, I can give an inter-dimensional view of biology! Who knows what organisms are doing in the 4th, or even the 11th dimensions?! Sneaky they are, hopefully I will catch them at something naughty 

[Watson]

Count me in if I can do ethical yet ambitious experimentation .

[stockton_joans]

a farmer one kept a chicken alive for days after decapitating it by pouring feed and water down its (now easly accesable) gullet, which gives me the idea of removing peoples heads and placing then in mechs for exploration in hazadous environments and then reataching the body wehen they come back

[Dusza Beben]

a farmer one kept a chicken alive for days after decapitating it by pouring feed and water down its (now easly accesable) gullet, which gives me the idea of removing peoples heads and placing then in mechs for exploration in hazadous environments and then reataching the body wehen they come back

Mike the headless chicken!
Actually it was years, (April 1945 – March 1947) but you have to leave the brain stem attached to the body.

From Wiki
"Post mortem, it was determined that the axe blade had missed the carotid artery and a clot had prevented Mike from bleeding to death. Although most of his head was severed, most of his brain stem and one ear was left on his body. Since basic functions (breathing, heart-rate, etc) as well as most of a chicken's reflex actions are controlled by the brain stem, Mike was able to remain quite healthy."

DB

[stockton_joans]

there coes the human headed mech idea as i'm pretty sure you'd need the brain stem to controle the mech

[Atterton]

Also most of what makes us humans would be in the main brain, if you ran something on a human brain stem it wouldn´t work better than with a chickens.

[Dusza Beben]

Perhaps deadly pecking chicken mechs? 

DB

[Rowan of Rin]

Perhaps deadly pecking chicken mechs? 

DB

The words you are searching for is a chicken walker

[stockton_joans]

*Facepalm*

Out!

[Dusza Beben]

Perhaps deadly pecking chicken mechs? 

DB

The words you are searching for is a chicken walker

My work here is done.   

DB

[Rowan of Rin]

Well, I think I can officially join this club, as today I had my first chemistry lab, and we used coloured solutions  of dubious origins in flasks. I felt like it was some sort of mad scientist initiation ceremony!

[Ambie]

For folk's reference cards:  The U.S. Army is posting a large number of medical photos/illustrations on Flickr.

Wired story link http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/03/medarchives.html

Flickr link http://www.flickr.com/photos/medicalmuseum/

Lots of grand shots of skulls, procedures, and other interesting medical bits.

[Rowan of Rin]

For folk's reference cards:  The U.S. Army is posting a large number of medical photos/illustrations on Flickr.

Wired story link http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/03/medarchives.html

Flickr link http://www.flickr.com/photos/medicalmuseum/

Lots of grand shots of skulls, procedures, and other interesting medical bits.

I'm in heaven! Thank you very, very much for pointing that out.


And I do not know anyone else who would get this excited over some disgusting medical photos

[Skylros]

You can count me in this gentleman's establishment, if you consider physics as mad science. Am an A level physicist, who hopes to go on to study particle (nuclear, if you want to put it that way) physics at university. I consider myself insane, and have developed a rather infectious evil laugh. Proof of my insanity can be traced to a mad invention me and a steampunk friend thought up. If it was made, it could either kill the occupants of the "Chaos Engine" (as we named it affectionately) or induce a rather high amount of g-forces and vomiting.  *Evil Laugh*.

So anyway, I greet you all.

[darkshines]

Can ladies of a scientific turn of mind join as well?

[von Corax]

Can ladies of a scientific turn of mind join as well?

Most assuredly, my dear! The "Gentlemen" in our name refers strictly to conduct, and not to any particular anatomical, erm, detail. *Ahem.*

[darkshines]

Spiffing! Maybe I shall post some of the essays I have written, would anyone be interested? My latest two were titled "The Ethics of 19th Century Science with regards to Mary Shelley's Frankenstien" and "The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and Psychological Devolution in the Fin De Siecle"....

[Herr Döktor]

Kim Newman wrote a rather wonderful 'alternative take' on the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, as a completely different, but believeable, reinterpretation of the original, it's pretty hard to beat...

[darkshines]

Ooooh, I shall look it up, it will be hard to beat "Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde" though.....