MadModder
Gallery, Projects and General => Neat Stuff => Topic started by: Bluechip on May 31, 2010, 01:19:42 PM
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Quite liked this ...
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Think you would need a gyro stabilised beer glass holder though :scratch:
Dave BC
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Hmmmm.......
Yes......
That`s blummin clever! :thumbup:
David D
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I like that.... :clap:
So, when do they make one I can sit in? :headbang:
Ralph.
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When do they make one I can sit on :)
Can just imagine saddling one of them up......
Chris
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Must be a tremendous amount of processing going on in there .. :smart:
I'm going to stop looking at it.
Uncomfortable memories of ale infested attempts to get upstairs to bed in my sordid youth... far too much Worthington 'E' :beer:
Aw hell!!..... Dunnit AGAIN !!....Gonna throwup ..... Bathroom ..... err .. Have to wait until the door comes around again .. :lol:
Dave BC
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When do they make one I can sit on :)
Can just imagine saddling one of them up......
Chris
Chris,
If you have the (spill-proof?) bottle, how about riding on his big brother ?
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Quite the "push-me pull-you" of Dr Doolittle - but you definitely wouldn't want to have had a gassy lager before riding on that!
Dave
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that is mind blowing and the jump at 2 minutes, right at the end is just superb.
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Ok, so who's going to build the first steam powered version of one of these things?
The "Wild wild West" comes to mind.
Bernd
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At least you can hear the big one coming before it tramples you underfoot!
And it's modest - remembers to put its trousers on before going outdoors :lol:
Andy
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A typical waste of our tax dollars, re-inventing the wheel for DOD.
Here is a Walking Timber Feller/Buncher that is in use today.
(http://www.cnr.vt.edu/harvestingsystems/images/WalkingHarvester.jpg)
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Remove the driver from that buncher and see just how far it gets.
Designing an autonomous control system for a walking vehicle is no small task.
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Quite so Marv ... what's DOD anyway
If it's something indelicate, I'd rather not know. I'm corrupt enough already ..
Dave BC
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DOD = Department of Defense
They paid my salary for many years.
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DOD = Department of Defense
They paid my salary for many years.
So that's were my hard earned tax dollars went. :lol: :lol:
Bernd
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I worked on numerous meaningful weapon systems for DOD. (Be very, very nice to me - I know how to target ICBMs.) I also worked on some real "what the f..k were they thinking" devices that bring to mind the British Panjandrum. While the thermonuclear hand grenade (think about it) never got very far there was one that reached my desk for a design assessment...
During the Vietnam war there was a need to survey troop movements along the Ho Chi Minh trail. Some genius came up with a design for the "hopping rock". Concealed in a fiberglass shell that looked like a rock was a rotary platform that held a vertical periscope affair that could be extended to allow a tiny video camera to view the area surrounding the rock. Attached to the rotor mechanism at a 45 degree angle was an arm with a sliding weight. A motor could haul the weight down to compress a strong spring. When released, the weight would cause the entire "rock" to hop in whatever direction the camera was last pointed.
The idea was to air drop these in quantity around the trail. They would then be "hopped" into suitable surveillance positions where they could watch the trail for troop movements.
When I wrote my assessment, I wrote something like this...
While the device seems eminently impractical for its intended purpose, it has great potential as a psychological terror weapon. Think about it. This poor Viet Cong soldier has been marching for days with little more to eat than fish heads and cold rice. Exhausted, he sits on a rock to rest for a while, whereupon the rock gooses him and then hops off into the jungle! He wouldn't be fit for combat for weeks to come.
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Ah, the Great Panjandrum! For those unfamiliar with this fearsome device, it appears here, with some other wartime inventions. One or two were actually successful.
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:scratch: I'm not sure why the embed code is showing in this message.
Andy
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Marv,
I had heard about those rocks. I'm sure he left a brown spot on the rock to as he took off into the jungle. :lol:
I'll be on the look out for rocks in my yard now. Do they have enough power to jump across the country? :lol:
Bernd