How to make some simple things impossibly thick

 by adammsix
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Hello everyone,

This is my first instructable. I hope it will be helpful to some and clear enough to understand.

This is a machine I made that makes things impossibly thick. The steps that follow are not perfect, there are variables. These variables should become obvious.

There is a minimum of 10 steps with a few subsidiary steps to follow.
 
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Step 1: November 28, 1980: Conception

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November 28, 1980. I was born in Barrie Ontario, Canada at the Royal Victoria Hospital. A 10 story hospital filled with many bodies, machines and countless fluids. I am told that the number of sperm present in a man can vary greatly depending on numerous factors (such as general health, time of the month, the presence of toxins). The body produces new sperm all the time as they are expelled during ejaculation, but they also have a very short life span. There is one egg though countless, unimaginable numbers of sperm, and each one carries a slightly different DNA. The chances that any one sperm will fertilize an egg is very very low.

Conception is miraculous.
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wagon173 says: Nov 26, 2012. 4:41 AM
Lol I was browsing for new ideas in shop techniques specifically aluminum for a submarine that I'm building (There'll be an instructable sometime int the coming months) It was a welcome break in research though! I'll definitely think twice the next time I look at a pop can or a pickle jar!
Dr.Earl Insanity says: Nov 20, 2010. 8:28 PM
lol i love it!!!! yes it fundamentally lacks logic, but who needs logic any way!? KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!
gggonzalez says: Apr 1, 2010. 11:04 AM
 How fitting that I stumble across this on April 1st.  Kudos!
ThePennyLady says: Jan 15, 2010. 10:34 PM
You are a fantastic writer.
Johnny_dreamer says: Dec 18, 2009. 7:23 PM
Vonnegut-esque...
moqca says: Nov 8, 2009. 3:08 PM
 Genious, simply genious
BlessedWrath says: Nov 2, 2009. 11:33 AM
I do not understand, and I'm content with that.

Congratulations on your thickness.
RattDaPained says: Oct 11, 2009. 1:56 PM
If People Would Pay Attention This Was A Great Instructable. It Taught You How To Make A Simple Explanation Of How To Make A Simple Pice Of Art  Complicated And Seemingly Irrelavent Aka Thick. Most Tell About Themselves And What They Made In Step 1. In Step 2 Most Will Tell About The Tools They Had To Work With Or Where They Made What They Did. Steps 3-x (X Being Step 6 In This One.) Show How To Use More Comon Materials. The Next Few Steps (7 In This Case) Shows Something To Think About Such As Safty. After Those Explinations The Last Of The Matirials That Is Needed Is Something Uncommon And That Is Explained. (Step 8). The Last Step Will Tell How Every Thing Works Together (Step 9 For The Art Project, Step 10 For The Thickening One). Open Mindedness Helps Too.
emerson.john says: Sep 25, 2009. 8:44 AM
Although bizarre, this makes more sense than doing a lot of the things people attempt with an Altoids box.
WhoTookMudshark says: Jul 29, 2009. 2:33 PM
I just read this again a year-and-a-half later and it is still my favorite. Are you an artist elsewhere adamsix, or just on instructables?
mikeasaurus says: Dec 4, 2007. 4:43 PM
1 - This isn't an instructable. 2 - Your machine looks broken, or incomplete. 3 - No one cares that you were born in the armpit of Canada. 4 - This isn't a forum for introspective storytelling.
iLikeCoolStuf in reply to mikeasaurusJul 20, 2009. 9:56 AM
lol
TheShawMaestro in reply to mikeasaurusDec 20, 2008. 4:15 AM
The whole point is that he bulked it up with items of no relvance at all. And remember the "Be Nice" policy?
mikeasaurus in reply to TheShawMaestroDec 21, 2008. 11:46 AM
ShawMaestro 1- My comment was written over a year ago, get on the ball. 2- Bulked up storytelling is still not an instructable. 3- There is nothing unkind about what I wrote, so the 'be nice' policy doesn't apply.
bobt4 in reply to mikeasaurusJun 5, 2009. 1:37 PM
u must have some problems with puting evrything in lists....-.-
dombeef in reply to bobt4Jun 18, 2010. 7:20 PM
Yeah even though he said it was one year ago and I thought that he would change!
bobt4 in reply to dombeefJul 5, 2011. 9:07 AM
LOL 1 year and 13 days late mister.
dombeef in reply to bobt4Jul 5, 2011. 9:23 AM
LOL 16 minutes later mister
bobt4 in reply to dombeefJul 6, 2011. 9:36 AM
Wow I almost posted 24 hours later
bobt4 in reply to dombeefJul 6, 2011. 9:35 AM
Dude,are you a wizard? :O
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dombeef in reply to bobt4Jul 6, 2011. 9:47 AM
I dont get that? Is it a meme or something?
bobt4 in reply to dombeefJul 6, 2011. 10:13 AM
No I'm just amazed :O
dombeef in reply to bobt4Jul 6, 2011. 10:17 AM
yeah, but that says meme generator in the bottom right, I dont get that meme
bobt4 in reply to dombeefFeb 20, 2011. 1:00 AM
It's for situations when people are amazed.
dombeef in reply to bobt4Jul 6, 2011. 1:35 PM
Ah, ok
rc jedi in reply to mikeasaurusDec 5, 2007. 7:04 PM
hee hee, you tell 'em!
incorrigible packrat in reply to mikeasaurusDec 4, 2007. 7:20 PM
Better than being born in Owen Sound, the bumhole of the elephant. (Take a map of Southern Ontario. Turn it sideways so that West is North, and the whole thing looks pachydermish. Note position of Owen Sound.) As to the "instructable" I dunno, it's pretty messed up, but kind of entertaining.
DELETED_craz meanman in reply to incorrigible packratSep 10, 2008. 2:30 PM
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incorrigible packrat in reply to DELETED_craz meanmanOct 20, 2008. 1:15 PM
Can't find my camera. Google map it, then turn monitor sideways.
jongscx says: Dec 15, 2008. 9:51 AM
Isn't Step 5 just a picture of Florida? I'm confused...
CybergothiChe in reply to jongscxMay 27, 2009. 7:25 PM
no, it is ice, surrounding a body of water (who can spell resovwar anyway?)
bowlerhatman says: Jan 2, 2009. 11:50 PM
Dude... I LOVE IT. This is really cool. I love how you've used almost a stream of consciousness idea, it's more like word association football, but it's still similar. Disregard the fool who criticise it, they recognise not the value of your ideas.
chriskarr says: Dec 26, 2008. 9:17 AM
On step five - "When electricity was demonstrated at the Chicago World's fair people thought it was a miracle." And it wouldn't have been such a miracle if it weren't for Nikola Tesla and his pioneering AC distribution system.
duckythescientist in reply to chriskarrJan 2, 2009. 8:35 PM
WOOHOO!!!! GO TESLA!!
chicKintAco says: Nov 4, 2008. 1:54 PM
Hahaha. I love Canadians!
hcold says: Sep 15, 2008. 1:28 AM
Love this Instructable! Also, the worrying about the lack of discipline sounds worryingly (for lack of a better word) familiar.
hcold in reply to hcoldSep 30, 2008. 5:43 AM
Seconds thoughts - this Instructable and its reactions strongly remind me of The Catcher In The Rye, and the boy who had to stay on topic and when he got off topic, the class would yell "Digression!" shattering his confidence. Nice.
WhoTookMudshark says: Mar 30, 2008. 11:41 AM
This reads like a Fiery Furnaces album and I love it with all of my heart. I don't know how to vote on this website but I am about to figure it out and give you the best vote imaginable.
codongolev in reply to WhoTookMudsharkJul 3, 2008. 4:35 PM
look at the right.
xxmixkexx says: Mar 29, 2008. 8:11 PM
haha get it... it was a joke!!! if you made it and followed it you were thick!!! jeeze
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