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    Turbo Encabulator

    Lygris (old account)

    3 HN mentions · mentioned in 3 months, 2017–2018

    YouTube

    1:50 · 2.4M views · Aug 24, 2007

    A short comedy video of the Turbo Encabulator, a piece of technobabble nonsense describing an imaginary machine in deadpan engineering language.

    HN uses it as a joke reply to threads full of dense or impenetrable technical jargon.

    Arts, Comedy, Music & FilmSatire & parodyMechanical & precision engineering
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    3 comments from Hacker News

    1. @vinchucoJan 2018· in “The De Bruijn-Newman constant is non-negative”

      This is not a case of the turbo encabulator [1] which you may seemingly enjoy. What he likely meant is that it is well known from the literature. Or there's an easy explanation that supersedes the verbose notation. [1] this video

      AsideView on HN
    2. @sheltronApr 2018· in “Walt Disney's MultiPlane Camera (1957) [video]”

      Wow these are really great thanks for sharing. Heres a couple of others that I like. Differential Steering: [LINK] Turbo Encabulator: this video

      AsideView on HN
    3. @nn3Oct 2017· in “Remote Maintenance of Molten Salt Reactors [video]”

      The beginning narration sounds very similar (down to choice of words and sentences) to the famous Turbo Encabulator text this video

      AsideView on HN