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3.55sI'm talking about Earth. Earth's the generator.
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4.3s(SHEEP BLEATING) Suppose this basketball is the whole world.
2.69sTo many young men in the inner city, it is.
3.57sAs it spins, it's producing an enormous magnetic field.
3.14sIf we could use that field to generate electric current,
7.91swe could actually harness the Earth's rotational ener... Ener... (SNEEZES) Yes, tapping the Earth's ener-kerchoo.
1.38sGo on.
2.27sSorry, I'm super-allergic to cats.
1.98sProfessor Katz, would you mind...
3.25sMiss Wong, I mind everything.
9.59sYou just need to polarize the Earth's core with a huge static charge by ratcheting superconducting wire down into...
2.44s(SNEEZES) Sorry.
3.3sEnough. The committee members will now vote yea or nay.
1.67sNay. Nay.
2.1sHell, nay.
3.34sMALE VOICE: The horse says, "Doctorate denied."