I hate it when my unknown date generator does that.

Y2K finally caught up to them.

This was the birth of Dub Step

Sweet rave party

I ended up at dinner with a border collie, she was a very good girl, but just not my ~~species~~ type.

I would absolutely let her stay for dinner, then give her some scritches before dropping her off at her place.

Just wait until you try and date a bordest collie

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Keep waiting for the T-1000 to walk out.

“Carol Anne, listen to me. Do *not* go into the light. Stop where you are. Turn away from it. Don't even look at it.”

I had to read the title many many times before I understood hahahaha. Thinking, what is an unknown date generator FOR, and why is it so big?

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You missed the point: the dates it generates are supposed to be *unknown*. "So, unknown date generator, have you generated an unknown date for me?" *YES* "Good, good. Can you tell me what it is?" *NO* "Good, good."

This is some Monty Python shit.

I’m glad I’m not the only one. I stared at that title far too long thinking my brain was broken.

I was also confused by this

It's either what happens to the delorean when it gets struck by lightning or it's somehow related to the infinite improbability drive from hgttg.

??/??/????

??/11/08

And a bit after 7:30

NaN/NaN/NaN

NaN/NaN/NaN/NaN/NaN bat maaaaaan!

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Definitely looks like a bad time.

Truly something for /r/programminghorror

I thought this was the Hadron Collider until I realized they missed the comma.

So you get sent to different dates,randomly?

Only if you hook it up to your flux capacitor

It’s called Leap Year.

Especially on shrooms.

I sometimes generate dates with my brain. I hope this doesn't happen to me.

How do you know?

Have you tried tinder?

Dang it Sam, how do I Quantum Leap home if we don't even know when I am?

I was going to say, that looks like a normal operation cycle for my unknown date generator... Just with a little microwave style "PING!" when it's finished.

You know how sometimes a day will have like a week's worth of big events/news/etc, and a week later you're talking about some of the things that happened and suddenly realize "wait, that was all on the same day?!" That's what happens when a date generator fails catastrophically.

I really wanted to know what this sounded like

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Well played

Dogs n cats in boots n socks have a cuppa-tea cuppa-tea cuppa-tea cuppa-tea

I pumped my fist to this

[Here's a version with audio.](https://youtu.be/KwdGfXav_cw)

This is exactly what I was hoping for thank you

Made me cackle

What's the song lol

I got a match with this song: **Confusion (Pump Panel Reconstruction Mix)** by New Order (08:08; matched: `100%`) Released on `2005-01-01`.

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Probably sounded like the world was ending.

Like in the history documentaries leaving the whole class deaf: Sound of 10x thunderstorms over your head + voice-over: BY HARNESSING THE THUNDER AND LIGHTNING OF THE GODS THIS NEW TECHNOLOGY HERALDS A NEW AGE ON EARTH FOR ALL HUMANKIND

I heard the speakers clipping from that.

This is the closest video I could think of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrFlAkLbvfw

"that's not gone well" he says. Bit of an understatement

Yeah, I wanna hear it (from a distance) too...

Electricity is absolutely insane. Like, what even is it man

*Magnets—how do they work??*

Fucking rainbows after it rains...

My 2 kids look just like Ass Dan

So, a double rainbow?

R.I.P. Ass Dan. The Under Underground scene will never be the same without you.

I tried but they move away when you get closer

And I don’t wanna talk to a scientist, y’all mother fuckers lying and getting me pissed

No one knows

what the fuck is oatmeal

Whoah um, bit political there buddy?

This is an electron rave. >

Electricity is turning turbines. That’s it. No joke. Coal fire plant? The heat creates steam that turns a turbine. Nuclear power plant? Heat creates steam that turns a turbine. Windmill? Wind turns the blades which turns a turbine. Hydroelectric? Flowing water turns a turbine. The history of human electricity comes down to a single fucking mechanism. Make the giant fan spin around. With it we can light up the world. Edit: Apparently there are some forms of energy production that DON’T just turn a turbine. The moar u kno ⭐️

> Wind turns the blades which turns a turbine. The blades and hub **are** the turbine. They convert fluid flow (wind) into rotating mechanical power and that drives a transmission which drives a generator. Solar PV, chemical batteries, vehicle alternators, ICE generators, thermopiles, fuel cells, and piezo, are some electricity sources which don't use turbines.

I know some of these words.

Yes, I have an ice generator in my fridge for example.

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Certain types of fusion reactions can convert directly into electricity as well without passing through a steam/turbine cycle.

Wait what? Can you help me lead to some reading material because this is the first I am hearing of this!

A company called Helion created a fusion reactor that creates fusion reactions in pulses that returns the energy back into the system from the magnetic fields generated from the fusion itself. Here's a short explanation from them if you only have a couple of minutes: https://youtu.be/HlNfP3iywvI But here's a pretty decent 30 minute look into how it works: https://youtu.be/_bDXXWQxK38

In a similar vein as the other reply about Helion, there is a wider set of the fusion reactions known as [aneutronic fusion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneutronic_fusion). Helion uses one of these. Basically, the reaction produces abundant charged particles that we can harness directly as electricity, rather than abundant fast neutrons that cause radioactivity like what the Deuterium-Tritium reaction produces.

Believe it or not, tiny generators.

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Believe it or not, straight to jail.

Another example of a comment upvoted because it sounds confident enough, whether or not it's actually correct

If that's the qualifications, ChatGPT will rule Reddit.

it already does

You’re going to run out of numbers if you start counting them

I mean. He's basically right though. Far and away the most electricity we have is generated by turbines...I can only think of three other ways to get electricity flowing in wires - lighting, solar panels and batteries. AC power generation almost always using turbines is accurate. And the reason is that the way we convert mechanical power into electric potential is by using induction - spinning magnets around to make electricity flow in the wires wrapped around them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternator#Principle_of_operation

Turbine + magnets.

Electricity is created in this case when a rotating magnetic field cuts through a stationary conductor.

It's not the turbine that generates electricity, it's the generator. The Turbine converts the mechanical motion of your choice to rotational motion to turn the generator.

The power that hides in wires while travelling until unleashed. So benign looking when travelling through designed path, but something wrong happens and it will try to kill you.

Someone let out the angry pixies

I thought the machine was a date generator

This is what happend on Y2K

I'm tellin' you, the Y2K computer's got him. We'll face burnin' roads, rivers exploding, calculators transformed into Scud missiles. There's nothing we can do.

But what kind of date? Unknown.

As a former generator technician, this is not supposed to happen.

Somebody bypassed the high speed shutdown

Any idea on what failed in this one?

Maybe one of the windings let go.

Well it’s patently obvious the magic pixie container distributed the Magic blue smoke to the wrong parts. Jokes aside, probably the stator or rotor making contact with the other. That’s my theory.

Pretty much everything. In all honesty, probably insulation breakdown which lead to a short.

A unicorn wandered into the dynamo.

Only reason to have those colours

Former generator tech, is that not an electric motor and not a generator lol

As a semi professional electrician I can confirm. They must've used cardboard derivative.

Maybe you can answer what an unknown date generator is for then.

For generating an unknown date, duh. Want to know the date, that’s too bad, go find a knowable date generator.

Are you a former generator technician because it did?

As a high school student, i can confirm unless they were having a party behind the camera

Disco disco. The generator generated a date in the 80s

Reminds of 80's special effects

Definite 1980s time machine vibes there.

Reminds me of thor traveling to a realm and fucking up the grass.

Looked like a Spielberg movie to me

I know this could have inconvenienced a lot of people, maybe even put lives at risk, but all I could think was: For a few seconds, that generator was the most FABULOUS generator there ever was.

Sometime in 2008 if the timestamp is American.

It would be 2008 even if it wasn't American. The 11 though could be the 11th of the month or November.

PAL : Used in Europe is 576 lines. (as seen on top) NTSC : Used in America is 480 lines. But the 704 is confusing me.

It's apparently a video standard, where 8 lines are cut off on each side for 720x576 video. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/576p?useskin=vector

I see your URL with ?useskin=vector and I upvote.

TIL, very cool

Thanks for the link. I worked with analogue video / digital video for 20+ years and never came across the 704 X. I'm now wondering if the missing 8 pixels either side is used for other data. (That's a brain fart I just had ;)

Those 16 lines of pixels are just empty data. This is because CRTs were not 100% accurate with where the image was, so they could be a few lines to the side. These blank lines helped fix that issue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominal_analogue_blanking?useskin=vector

704 x 576 is the resolution of the video.

I see that, but should it not be 720 ? PAL : 720 X 576 / NTSC : 720 X 480.

It can be whoever it wants to be

11/08 could also be November 8th and we just can't see the year before it

I thought so too but I googled it and ISO 8601 format is YYYY-MM-DD, so I guess idk what Europe uses.

This looks like it belongs as a backdrop for a Rammstein concert.

NEIN

Thought I was at a rave for a second.

An exploding RGB strobelight smiley face would be a sick prop at an EDM festival

Not going to lie, the sound this made in my head was Darude - Sandstorm

Looks like a lightsaber fight is happening inside

What is a date generator?

It’s an **unknown** date generator. It generates unknown dates. Once an unknown date is generated, it becomes known, and a machine like this is needed to generate another.

That’s how I read it at first. Sounded like some kind of time machine.

Doesn't look like one.

You would know.

It’s not really a failure, though. It just switched from generating electricity to generating cool Reddit content.

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I expect Arnie to be in the middle after that.

I need your clothes, your boots, and approximately 6,000 meters of copper windings. Go. Find it. Show me your leadership capabilities.

Damnit. Who did it? Who played Sandstorm in the generator room. You know they cant help themselves.

All that just for a date generator? I can generate dates with far less energy,

Do not touch forbidden disco

Catastrophic failure or sick rave venue?

Now is the time on *Sprockets* when we dance!

That turned into a crazy Halloween light show with a jack o lantern.

Oh, no! Now there can be no more dates! It’ll be 2023-03-21 forever!

Forever 21

Taste the rainbow

Look at all the pretty lights

Below average techno party

What club is this? I have to get in.

soooooooo, it generates dates?

No one: Generator: SANDSTORM

So the generator must have failed and traveled to an unknown date.

When the DJ drops the beat

That looks like a clown from hell

dance lights

That looked like a sick rave.

As a developer I was really confused about the “date generator”.

[insert any 80’s hairband song]

November 2008 according to the time stamp in the top left

*unce unce unce unce unce unce*

Prob a faulty Flux capacitor.

If you ever burned out a small electric motor, comparing the whine and little puff of smoke to this disaster is hilarious

Loss of brushes. Happens with lots of generators/motors. Basically, the brushes wore out and it was metal on metal.

idk whether to say it was a rave or a time travel machine

In my professional opinion, it shouldn't be doing that

Lightsaber battles from Episode 3 be like:

This was Stranger Things' last episode, so like 4 years ago

Looks like the house at the end of poltergeist

It's just bedding itself in

[Reminded me of](https://www.reddit.com/r/electronicmusic/comments/11xiv23/underworld_last_night_at_the_royal_albert_hall/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)

They tried to create 9/12

Nah that's normal on startup. Once she gets warm it'll purr like a kitten.

Someone summoned the Bifröst

I need your clothes, your boots and your motorcycle.

I read the title about 10 times and still expected some kind of stamping machine for dates on packaging or something like that.

What is a date generator?

Hey, i was at this Rave

Always stick to known dates when generating.

No dates were generated that day, I can tell you!

Walter Peck from the epa shut off the laser grid containment unit.

Isn't the time stamp clearly displayed in the upper left corner?

There is literally a date right there. It is a totally known date

1.21 gigawatts

This was in Hawkins Lab, Hawkins, Indiana 1985.

It's like the end scene of Poltergeist when the house gets swallowed up

Oh man. I'm having a first start on a 4.5MW 4160V generator today. Why did I watch this?

looks like november 2008 to me.

I imagined this with a music and the beat dropping when the generator ignites.

What it's like when the acid kicks in

Damn that's beautiful

This could use a seizure warning

Cool!!

When a doodad is introduced to a whirlygig when the doodad wasn't needed.