The Stuff of Genius - The Taser

As a leading physicist at NASA, Jack Cover already had a few achievements under his belt. Yet his Stuff of Genius was something completely unrelated. Tune in and learn how a fateful encounter with an electric fence led to the taser in this episode.

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[PlutonGB]

genius are the guys who invented youtube

[kiko19972]

Dont taze me bro!

[leerman22]

@rich1051414 including mindless ads!

[rich1051414]

@PlutonGB I heard youtube was created by three paypal coworkers who were impressed by amateur porn sharing sites and didn't understand why a site didn't exist where people could share videos in such a format for video blogging and other innocent means. In 2005 they created youtube.com and they later made a partnership with cbs, vevo, bbc, and hulu. In 2006 google bought it and google did it's thing and now the youtube we know and love was created :D Thank you porn.

[Rawc90]

@PlutonGB Yea shame they sold it to shitty google

[mai1992]

I'd like to see a show named: "The Stuff of Evil Genius"

[TheJackassManiacs]

@PlutonGB But not the ones who invented the new youtube homepage look.

[austinwang302]

lol at 1:56, it looks like hes holding a nerf gun

[mapflu]

@mushkamusic Technically, its a high current that kill but you can't create high current across flesh without using high voltages. Ohms law: Current = Voltage/Resistance.

[omgdan23]

@PlutonGB It was a stuff of genius... until 2010. Now it's a shit site.

[reclusivesage]

I can't believe I know where that picture of "aerospace scientists" comes from.