{"id":32980,"date":"2021-10-16T20:25:17","date_gmt":"2021-10-16T20:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mathewingram.blog\/?p=32980"},"modified":"2021-10-16T20:25:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-16T20:25:17","slug":"these-blinking-tubes-are-the-most-important-device-in-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2021\/10\/16\/these-blinking-tubes-are-the-most-important-device-in-the-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"These blinking tubes are the most important device in the universe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Most Important Device in the Universe - Blinking Tubes Without Function New Compilation (Part 1)\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/phPp5oYnps0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you&#8217;ve ever heard of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wilhelm_scream\">&#8220;the Whilhelm Scream&#8221;<\/a> &#8212; an audio file of a man screaming, which has been used in literally thousands of movies and TV shows &#8212; this prop, with its blinking neon light tubes, could be the physical equivalent. It <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=phPp5oYnps0&amp;t=376s\">has appeared in dozens of science-fiction TV shows and terrible movies<\/a>, and has become such a ubiquitous player in various versions of Star Trek that it should have its own trailer by now. According to a comment on this YouTube clip &#8212; which is part one of a three-part series &#8212; Modern Props owner John Zabrucky designed it, and it dates to about 1977 or so, but was updated several times.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve ever heard of &#8220;the Whilhelm Scream&#8221; &#8212; an audio file of a man screaming, which has been used in literally thousands of movies and TV shows &#8212; this prop, with its blinking neon light tubes, could be the physical equivalent. It has appeared in dozens of science-fiction TV shows and terrible movies, and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2021\/10\/16\/these-blinking-tubes-are-the-most-important-device-in-the-universe\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;These blinking tubes are the most important device in the universe&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}