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El avión segador. Esto es una de las cosas más MACARRAS que he visto en mucho tiempo. Lástima que lo que tiene de macarra lo tenga de inútil. Aun así me hubiera encantado presenciar alguna de sus misiones. Ahora los militares sólo decapitan infectados usando aspas de helicóptero. ¡Menudencias!
The Soviet ‘Fire Hedgehog’
What looks to be an anti-infantry experiment - 88 downward-firing machine guns in the bomb bay of a Tupolev Tu-2, giving a firing rate of about 1,300 rounds per second.
Believed to be flown and tested in 1944, and abandoned due to the problems associated with in-flight reloading of the guns.
Comparison between an illustration (left) from the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing Mission press kit (p. 152: PDF 9MB) and an illustration (right) from Aliens: Colonial Marines Technical Manual written by Lee Brimmicombe-Wood and published by HarperPrism in 1996 (see Wikipedia’s entry about this manual).
¿Que se te da muy bien retocar fotos? Mejor ve aprendiendo otra cosa… insignificante humano.
Visto en Backfocus.
me: FTW
urbanbot: “For The Win.”An enthusiastic emphasis to the end of a comment, message, or post. Sometimes genuine, but often sarcastic.Originated from the game show Hollywood Squares where the result of the player’s response is expected to win the game.Invite urbanbot@gmail.com to chat on Gmail for super fast Urban Dictionary lookups!
Here’s Google’s video on Inviting someone to chat in Gmail.
Useful!
My first reaction to the new WikiReader device, which houses the entire Wikipedia on disk and enables you to browse it, was “huh?” My second reaction was “wow.” Let’s face it. If you travel, you’ll find yourself with long stretches of un-connected time. If you had only one Internet resource available to you, the Wikipedia would probably be it.
It runs on two AAA batteries, which power the device for months, according to the company. The gadget has “instant on,” and uses an Amazon-Kindle like black-and-white screen.
The WikiReader costs $99 at Wikireader.com and amazon.com. For $29, you can buy an annual subscription for updated microSD cards.
Un producto sincero y si lo pensáis, extremadamente postapocalíptico. Yo quiero uno. Espero que triunfe como se merece (aunque no lo creo).
Evaluando estrategias para contactar con los desarrolladores, que me inviten a sus oficinas a probarlo y, una vez seguro de que todo el material sensible está dentro del edificio, volarlo por los aires. Cyberdyne Systems style.
In-depth studies of complex medical realities (via but does it float).
“Fearing that the natural world is being replaced by technology, the artist installed a working computer inside of an idle beaver. First, she crafted a computer from the motherboard up, tested it, then hollowed out a stuffed beaver and molded the two together using spandex spray, resin, and fiberglass. After three months of work, the result was Compubeaver, followed up by its accessory, Text-o-Possum, a stuffed possum that’s equipped with a laser in its back leg that projects a virtual keyboard.”
Jaaaaajajajajaja!!!
Dicen que esto se puede vender en un kit para cocinártelo en casa por 500€. La cosa aún no se replica completa, sólo el 50% de las piezas. La siguiente generación (imprimiéndose mientras escribo) puede construir conductores eléctricos. Tres cosas:
- ese océano de rebabas de plástico son horas de cutter
- espero que los cartuchos de plástico no los comercialice el hijo de puta fenicio que le puso el precio a los cartuchos de tinta
- invento paralelo: el reintegrador de basura -por qué comprar cartuchos si puedo bajar al contenedor-
- lo realmente acojonante vendrá cuando se monte sola
RepRap: A Self-Replicating 3D Printer
¡La mejor historia de la mañana!
(via tmblg)
Instant repair »
Esto era algo que salía en Cyberpunk 2020 (el juego de rol) y que me parecía un poco lo suyo, curarte los agujeros poniéndote una plasta orgánica que se transforme en el tejido adecuado. Están trabajando en ello.
“According to Darpa’s solicitation, 85 percent of recent wartime injuries involved damage to the extremities and facial regions. That often means multiple surgeries, rehab and permanent disability for vets. They’re hoping to eliminate the injuries, and their long-term consequences, with a system that can reproduce in vitro tissues with the same structural and mechanical properties of the real stuff. And maybe make better versions: Darpa wants implanted results that will “replace, restore or improve tissue/organ function.”
Phase II of the project will see animal testing of the most promising systems. And Darpa foresees eventual use by military and civilian populations. Sounds like fodder for Hollywood, but broken bones and third-degree burns might one day be treated with an easy drop-in at the body part bank.”
El artículo de la propia DARPA, aquí. Por cierto, es muy interesante la lista de puntos que supuestamente hacen a DARPA una organización competente. Si la abstraes, vale para montar cualquier empresa.
Una plasmación clara del tema “Cuando el ingenio humano subyuga las fuerzas indomables, primigenias y bestiales del Universo mediante la técnica”. Slurp.
the Pratt & Whitney F135 - the most powerful fighter engine ever built (over 40,000 pounds of thrust at maximum) - developed for the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II
“¿Eeooooooooo? ¿Cariño? ¿Eres tú? ¿Holaaaaaaa? ¡Espera, que voy!”
(via The Raw Feed)
“Albert Tissandier (left), Gaston Tissandier (right), and an unidentified man in the basket of their airship demonstrating an electric navigational system featuring a propeller. Wood engraving between 1880 and 1900”
(from the Library of Congress Tissandier Collection)
