Published: October 8, 2025
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In 1939 this rare film presents how a telephone vacuum tube repeater works. A coast to coast call amplified a voice: 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000 00000000000000000000 0000000000000000000 times. How it works:

@BrianRoemmele Youtubes?

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@BrianRoemmele And that's why sound is measured logarithmically!

@BrianRoemmele Wait. Ten with ninety nine zeros after it? Do you see how close to inventing google they were?

@BrianRoemmele My great-grandfather was right: it's witchcraft!

@BrianRoemmele "10 with 99 zeroes" that's a tenth of a googol

@BrianRoemmele Amplification expressed in units of hog callers - I love it!

@BrianRoemmele Glad we could help to make you understand...C🐵

@BrianRoemmele Love that they called it the Speech Highway

@BrianRoemmele That's when the application of scientific notation comes in handy.🧐

@BrianRoemmele didja catch the curved earth?

@BrianRoemmele I'm more impressed by the animation and editing of the video.

@BrianRoemmele "This number is known as a "quinvigintillion" "

@BrianRoemmele Have you seen one of these? Austin moonlight tower https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Carbon Arc Lamp https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

@BrianRoemmele so 1 googol times

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It’s probably nothing.

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The video shows a glowing plasma toroid resembling a hollow, dynamic donut. This mirrors the ā€œsnowflakeā€ plasma shape in tokamaks, where magnetic fields create a hexagonal pattern that spreads heat, reduces wall wear, and stabilizes fusion plasma. Only 15 views on YT

Hello, new followers. We make sculptures with robots…and we’re making entire buildings soon.

It’s now 27 years since I was made redundant and given a few grand. I decided that if I was careful, I could live off the money for 6 months trying to become a comedian before I had to get another job. I was 37. Worth a punt.

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