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Wednesday, December 20th, 2006
Another nerdcore documentary with mc frontalot. Ytcracker still pwns all y’all.
A great flash animation of a shaolin rabbit.
These are images from the Siemens 64 slice CT scanner. It’s the world’s first CT scanner able to take 192 images per second. It’s able to peer inside your body. I feel bad for al the medical illustrators out there.
Ray Harryhausen is a master of stop motion animation. And he made some of the great monsters of the past come to life long before CGI.
Theo Kamecke made this beautiful sculpture out of old circuit boards utilizing his skills as a woodworker.
David Bushnell built the first American sub called the Turtle Submarine in 1776. It’s a one-man vessel powered by a pedal-operated propeller and armed with a keg of explosives to destroy British warships anchored in New York harbor.
Good idea, but there’s a slight problem, though:
The Turtle’s torpedo, a keg of powder, was to be attached to an enemy ship’s hull and detonated by a time fuse. On the night of September 7, 1776, the Turtle, operated by an Army volunteer, Sergeant Ezra Lee, conducted an attack on the British ship HMS Eagle. However, the boring device that was operated from inside the oak-planked Turtle failed to penetrate the target vessel’s hull. It is likely that the wooden hull was too hard to penetrate, the boring device hit a bolt or iron brace, or the operator was too exhausted to screw in the weapon.