Alien Chip in Napleon's Skull

Cosimo · 8 Sep 2011 at 17:11

Spook187 said:
How many cores did the chip have,was it overclocked in anyway

It had a single core and a garlic kernel.

El_Commi · 8 Sep 2011 at 17:41

simulatorman said:
It had a single core and a garlic kernel.

lol. very good.

Squark · 8 Sep 2011 at 17:46

vincent1989 said:
Napoleon wasn't short, he was average height for a man of the time period, ergo story is full of poo.

I was going to post the same thing.

StoutMeister · 8 Sep 2011 at 17:46

Cool story Bro.

SexyGreyFox · 8 Sep 2011 at 18:31

Fact #4521

My Brother In Law is Professor Charles Esdaile who lectures at Liverpool University and is apparently the worlds leading expert on Napoleon but he never told me that one.

Loads on him here - http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Professor Charles Esdaile

Le_Petit_Lapin · 8 Sep 2011 at 19:05

Weekly World News.

I stopped reading about there.

semi-pro waster · 8 Sep 2011 at 19:31

anticonscience said:
Weekly World News said:

From the extent of bone growth around the chip, the expert believes it was implanted when Bonaparte was young.

“Napoleon vanished from sight for a period of several days in July 1794, when he was 25. He later claimed he’d been held prisoner during the Themidorian coup – but no record of that arrest exists. I believe that is when the abduction took place.”

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Maybe we're dealing with different definitions of what "young" is but at 25 Napoleon had lived almost half his lifespan and I'd have thought that the majority of bone growth in normal circumstances would have been done anyway but perhaps alien abduction spurs on bone growth...

I can't help thinking it's too much of a coincidence that the doctors name is so very close to being dubious.

Pixel · 8 Sep 2011 at 19:49

Hovered over the link, saw Weekly World News, lol'd.

Here's some more corkers from them:

Their "reporting" speaks for itself.

SexyGreyFox · 8 Sep 2011 at 20:00

Pixel said:
Their "reporting" speaks for itself.

Isn't that VIZ?

The Funktopus · 8 Sep 2011 at 20:13

Yet despite apparently having this chip installed, he couldn't counteract Wellington's imperial cockblocking, neither in Spain or at Waterloo.

JonJ678 · 8 Sep 2011 at 21:01

"hackers can turn your computer into a bomb" perhaps not, but persuading a computer to overheat is possible. If it's full of dust, has a crap power supply, and is then subjected to stress testing you might get a fire out of it.

semi-pro waster · 8 Sep 2011 at 21:14

JonJ678 said:
"hackers can turn your computer into a bomb" perhaps not, but persuading a computer to overheat is possible. If it's full of dust, has a crap power supply, and is then subjected to stress testing you might get a fire out of it.

Assuming that the automatic thermal shutdown isn't triggered if/when the CPU gets hot. If the failure point is the PSU then it's maybe just about possible but the other most likely components (CPU and GPU) both tend to have features that shut/slow them down in the event of a thermal issue so you'd have to be pretty unlucky for it ever to manifest itself in a proper fire.