Worlds Largest Pencil

[Modelworks]

Bring it to take the sat.
"You said bring a #2 pencil !"


http://network.nationalpost.co...-s-largest-pencil.aspx

They better start looking for the world's biggest eraser. The world's largest pencil, a 22,000-pound, 76-foot-long version of the classic No. 2., is now at the City Museum in St. Louis.

The core is made of 4,000 pounds of graphite (pencils never actually containing real lead) and was made by Ashrita Furman, a 53-year-old health food store manager from New York for his meditation teacher. Perhaps he had to meditate on why his student was so strange.


"Meditation has given me the inner strength to do these improbable things," Furman told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "True, a lot of what I do is crazy, but it gives me a chance to spread the message of meditation."

The monstrous writing implement will tower over the previous record holder, a 65-foot verion that stands outside pencil manufacturer Faber-Castell's Malaysian headquarters.

 

[IceBergSLiM]

but why? For what purpose/

 

[Jahee]

Worlds largest waste of money..

 

[apac]

Seriously, this seems like the biggest waste of time/money/effort.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: IcebergSlim
but why? For what purpose/

why? because they could.


same with people makeing the largest sandwich,pancake, ball of twine

 

[waffleironhead]

You pencil necked geek...uhh ohh That pencil!!!

 

[Snapster]

Cool, now we have something big enough that we can write "hello" across Africa so our alien overlords can see. Or better yet, each country name so they can be on google map!

 

[sdifox]

Just remember, if someone yells timbre near that thing, look which way it's falling before you start running.

 

[Mr Pickles]

Is that pic of a large pencil... or a small man and forkift?!?!? ZOMG!

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: IcebergSlim
but why? For what purpose/

For a Guinness Book entry, I'd imagine.

 

[maxster]

Originally posted by: MrLee
Is that pic of a large pencil... or a small man and forkift?!?!? ZOMG!

tiny people do exist

 

[BrownTown]

Originally posted by: IcebergSlim
but why? For what purpose/

my PENcIlS is being than your PENcIlS

 

[Rubycon]

Pencil dick will never be the same again. :laugh:

 

[BrownTown]

Originally posted by: Rubycon
Imagine what that would smell like if you zapped it with 500kV (over a gigawatt!)

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uhh you do realize thats fake right?

As for phase to ground faults on 500kV lines the fault energies were more like 20GW FWIW (obviously this is the max, breakers go in 3 cycles so its only a very small duration at that level, thats more power than most states use at any given time).

 

[covert24]

hey at least people ar putting their time to use building a pencil instead of finding an alternative fuel source so many stupid people out there.

 

[Rubycon]

nm

 

[BrownTown]

Originally posted by: Rubycon
Explain how it's fake. There's lots of these videos including a person pulling the lines together with monofilament. They cast the line over a single feeder then attach a piece of THHN to it, ground the THHN and pull it back. When the THHN reaches the feeder it's a phase to ground fault. Pretty easy to do although pretty stupid.

I dunno about you, but from my perspective that explosion isn't within 100m of those power lines, looks like a little firework or something going off on the ground with some power lines a few hundred meters in the background.

EDIT: well that one still looks completely wrong to me, but there are other ones that actually look real. Not really a phase to ground fault in the sense you normally think of one since it isn't a bolted fault, just a high impedance arcing fault, but personally working for a utility and as an electricity customer I would love to see the people doing this going up in smoke along with the wire, tripping 500kV lines is a great way to send hundreds of thousands or millions of people into a blackout, now hopefully this cr@p isn't enough to actually trip the lines, but its entirely possible you could put millions of people in the dark.

 

[Rubycon]

edited for <insert reason>

nm

 

[cherrytwist]

This is going to be displayed at The City Museum, about 7 blocks from me.

Great place to check out if you're ever in St. Louis.

edit: City Museum is the home of the World's Largest Underwear, too.