The Solar-Powered Subway Prank A video
by Luke McKinney 11,088 110 07/15/2010 09:39 AM 1773 views
MIT has a reputation for braininess above and beyond the call of nerdery, and it's entirely deserved. Even their pranks involve things most major industries can't get working in the real world -- like this classic hack, where they installed a solar-powered subway line on their Great Dome.
The fully-functional motors ran back and forth around the building without any tracks -- the prank-engine was designed to fit perfectly on the existing architecture without causing any damage. Which means we need to watch our step when these people get bored, because they can construct fully autonomous building-scaling automatons for a joke. Or to put it another way, these guys could build a Terminator and shout "Surprise!"
You do realize subways are underground? Just checking. Which means:
1. A big solar panel
2. In a city(because that's where subways are)
3. The big ass solar panel that's taller than a typical city building.
Conclusion
Unless there version of terminator looks like Richard Simmons, which would be chuckleworthy, I doubt there great prankers at MIT. Now if they could get a fake robot (most likely a man in a believable robot costume) on the news or one of those tech magazines, then they'll have entered the ranks and lived up to the standards they've established as pranksters.
When you realize the Great Dome is fifteen stories high, with only a tiny trap door at the top that's nearly impossible to access, you realize how brilliant this is -- getting all the materials up there, getting them to work, and getting out without being seen.
All hail MIT for they'retherethierthey arethe'hertheieirthartheyeyrrreyr their mad pranking skillz.
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