A tank pre-steam power. The force of steam was known about long before, but not utilized. Maybe because the metals weren't good enough yet to hold pressure? Imagine a steampunk Rome.
Hero (a dude) of Alexandria made some steam powered stuff around the dawn of the 1st millenia, and some roman dude put steam powered doors in his house, I think some temples had steam powered doors to.
The emporer, I think Augustus the first one, had it presented to him to develop it further and he decided he didn't want to take jobs from the plebs or whatever, had to keep the beggars busy with something. So they dropped it.
Hundreds of years prior, a couple of hundred maybe, Archimedes theorized a steam cannon.
The principle of steam power was known, but the ancient steam engines could only move stuff against little resistance once, while releasing all steam.
It wasn't possible to build a steam engine that could build up pressure and do actual work, until metallurgy and precision machining were developed.
I think the first major application for a steam engine that could do real work was way into the 18th century or something, with the steam pump, to access coal seams deeper in the ground by pumping water out. Not sure entirely though.
It is usually what she's doing when i get home from work.
As for the decline of AC this is a 360 one she's playing, I beleive brotherhood.
Still very average games in my opinion but she loves them and I enjoy watching her play as she rolls into the missions saying "ohh I remember this, I hated this"
Juggling the boy while gaming until I have a shower and take him so she can rest.
I've seen this thing at least 500 times in my life, not sure how folks haven't seen it as many times. Did you all not spend hours pouring over Da Vinci's drawings as a kid? As a teen? As a young adult? Yesterday?
Yeah, hence "a translator". You didn't think I meant from Renaissance-era Italian to modern Japanese, did you? No one person could probably do that. I meant a translator from this plane to the next.
It must have been one of the Ezio ones, right? I do not recall this machine from the games.
Edit: Brotherhood apparently. I still do not recall, so maybe they were optional and I missed out or it just has been too long. Maybe it's time for a replay.
That's how ship cannons worked too, at the time. Powerful but heavy to move, slow to reload, not very accurate.... having more of them was the only way to have sustained firepower.
But Leonardo also left a lot of these sketches that look less like actual projects and more like the superhero fantasies of an extremely gifted six years old. "And look, this shit has cannons... Cannons EVERYWHERE! Bam! Kapow!". I guess it's what happens when you're so great at drawing that even the doodles you do when bored look like masterpieces.
WRONG, DUM DUM (assuming for the moment the intentional fallacy doesn't exist)
"Men fight wars and destroy everything around them. The earth should open and swallow them up. He who does not value life does not deserve it. Never destroy another life through rage, or through malice." -Da Vinci in his personal notes
Imagine paying for a weapon design only to end up with two incomplete designs and one being a stupid flying thing that will never work and a bunch of naked people pictures that are at least finished, but kind of useless because doctors continued to just poison people anyway
He is one of my favorite historical figures, but he must have been absolutely infuriating to deal with.
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Zwiebel@feddit.org · 79 pts · 188d
Clearly a tank
snooggums@piefed.world · 48 pts · 188d
According to the documentary Futurama it is a tank with crab legs!
erie09@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 188d
And ice cream is just a byproduct
Rhaedas@fedia.io · 25 pts · 188d
A tank pre-steam power. The force of steam was known about long before, but not utilized. Maybe because the metals weren't good enough yet to hold pressure? Imagine a steampunk Rome.
mech@feddit.org · 21 pts · 188d
Yes, the metal wasn't good enough, and the manufacturing tolerances weren't small enough to hold pressure.
hector@lemmy.today · 16 pts · 188d
Hero (a dude) of Alexandria made some steam powered stuff around the dawn of the 1st millenia, and some roman dude put steam powered doors in his house, I think some temples had steam powered doors to.
The emporer, I think Augustus the first one, had it presented to him to develop it further and he decided he didn't want to take jobs from the plebs or whatever, had to keep the beggars busy with something. So they dropped it.
Hundreds of years prior, a couple of hundred maybe, Archimedes theorized a steam cannon.
mech@feddit.org · 17 pts · 188d
The principle of steam power was known, but the ancient steam engines could only move stuff against little resistance once, while releasing all steam.
It wasn't possible to build a steam engine that could build up pressure and do actual work, until metallurgy and precision machining were developed.
hector@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 188d
I think the first major application for a steam engine that could do real work was way into the 18th century or something, with the steam pump, to access coal seams deeper in the ground by pumping water out. Not sure entirely though.
waz@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 188d
Newcomen engine Thomas Newcomen
5715@feddit.org · 10 pts · 188d
Taqi ad-Din was like: What else could it spin than a spit:
hector@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 188d
So what is this thing when?
ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip · 6 pts · 188d
It rotates meat so it cooks evenly on all sides.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 188d
Mmmm kebab
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 188d
But Davinci was Florentine...
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 188d
Your mom's a Florentine.
GraniteM@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 188d
--Robert A. Heinlein, The Door Into Summer
Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone · 59 pts · 188d
Wild, I watched my wife playing assassins creed last night while holding the baby, this machine was in the game
Never seen it before and now twice in a row.
Damn Baader-Meinhof
Jumbie@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 188d
Maybe you should help her with the baby so she can game.
Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone · 33 pts · 188d
Nah if i hold the baby while she games it's to easy for her, she needs an extra difficulty level /s
I was holding the baby. Probably could have worded it better
KeenFlame@feddit.nu · 3 pts · 188d
That's acrobatic level of gaming but I guess ass ass creed these days plays probably like a Toys R us
Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 188d
It is usually what she's doing when i get home from work. As for the decline of AC this is a 360 one she's playing, I beleive brotherhood.
Still very average games in my opinion but she loves them and I enjoy watching her play as she rolls into the missions saying "ohh I remember this, I hated this"
Juggling the boy while gaming until I have a shower and take him so she can rest.
KeenFlame@feddit.nu · 2 pts · 188d
I just for flashbacks, it's actually not that hard when they're tiny. Enjoy these times and hope your boy stays safe
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 188d
I like how this ended out, though... Well played
andybytes@programming.dev · 3 pts · 188d
ryannathans@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 188d
Probably never see it again either
BanMe@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 188d
I've seen this thing at least 500 times in my life, not sure how folks haven't seen it as many times. Did you all not spend hours pouring over Da Vinci's drawings as a kid? As a teen? As a young adult? Yesterday?
Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 188d
Nah, but i did buy a cool book you might be interested in if you like that kind of thing.
The books all illustrated on different survival things.
I bought it and inscribed it for my son hoping he learns from it but never needs it.
KeenFlame@feddit.nu · 1 pts · 188d
I'm sorry for your loss
Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 188d
My loss?
KeenFlame@feddit.nu · 4 pts · 188d
Your son with so much promise that no longer needs to survive, my condolences
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world · 57 pts · 188d
Given a translator, can you even imagine Leonardo da Vinci and Hideo Kojima in a room together?
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works · 41 pts · 188d
A weapon to surpass Metal Gear...
morto@piefed.social · 20 pts · 188d
Wood gear
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 188d
Solid
Thorry@feddit.org · 4 pts · 188d
Second floor basement?!?!!
bless@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 188d
Surpass metal gear?
defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 22 pts · 188d
No, because Da Vinci died in 1519, whereas Kojima was born in 1963.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 188d
Yeah, hence "a translator". You didn't think I meant from Renaissance-era Italian to modern Japanese, did you? No one person could probably do that. I meant a translator from this plane to the next.
HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 188d
My dude the other guy was being facetious......
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 188d
So was I. "Yes, and", as we say in improv. (I've never done improv.)
Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 188d
Yes and me either
sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 188d
Welcome back Da Vinci
n4ch1sm0@piefed.social · 36 pts · 188d
Leonardo's was literally just running a copy of Besiege 24/7 in his brain, wasn't he?
iamthetot@piefed.ca · 23 pts · 188d
Was genuinely fun to drive and use on Assassin's Creed.
Kratzkopf@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 188d
It must have been one of the Ezio ones, right? I do not recall this machine from the games.
Edit: Brotherhood apparently. I still do not recall, so maybe they were optional and I missed out or it just has been too long. Maybe it's time for a replay.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com · 21 pts · 188d
He would have loved battle bots.
ameancow@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 188d
andallthat@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 188d
That's how ship cannons worked too, at the time. Powerful but heavy to move, slow to reload, not very accurate.... having more of them was the only way to have sustained firepower.
But Leonardo also left a lot of these sketches that look less like actual projects and more like the superhero fantasies of an extremely gifted six years old. "And look, this shit has cannons... Cannons EVERYWHERE! Bam! Kapow!". I guess it's what happens when you're so great at drawing that even the doodles you do when bored look like masterpieces.
PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 188d
Old man Da Vinci furiously scribbling while also delivering the overexcited stream-of-consciousness babble of a little kid with his favorite thing
bstix@feddit.dk · 6 pts · 188d
They used muzzle loaded cannons at his time, so it makes sense. It's not only for direction, but for faster rate of fire.
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 188d
Why shoot at one target when you can shoot at 30? (as long as they're encircling the machine in a nicely spaced out, orderly fashion...)
PieMePlenty@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 188d
Yeah, he designed these things for Sforza because designing war machines pays money.
KeenFlame@feddit.nu · 3 pts · 188d
Thank you now I understand I thought he liked slaughter?
PieMePlenty@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 188d
Its possible he did. People had different sensibilities 500 years ago.
KeenFlame@feddit.nu · 1 pts · 188d
Un Thank you then now we don't know again
PieMePlenty@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 188d
Not a problem. I'm here to help and offer more ambiguity any time you need it. Just DM me.
KeenFlame@feddit.nu · 2 pts · 187d
Her smile could mean good they are getting slaughtered nobody can know yet
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 1 pts · 185d
WRONG, DUM DUM (assuming for the moment the intentional fallacy doesn't exist)
"Men fight wars and destroy everything around them. The earth should open and swallow them up. He who does not value life does not deserve it. Never destroy another life through rage, or through malice." -Da Vinci in his personal notes
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 187d
War. War never changes.
(Walks into the diatance)
quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 188d
The machina magnifica!
how_we_burned@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 188d
No don't do this. You're giving gaijin ideas.
It'll be the next tank on Warthunder, under the Italian tech tree.
drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 187d
Imagine paying for a weapon design only to end up with two incomplete designs and one being a stupid flying thing that will never work and a bunch of naked people pictures that are at least finished, but kind of useless because doctors continued to just poison people anyway
He is one of my favorite historical figures, but he must have been absolutely infuriating to deal with.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 187d
I bet he had ADD with all those hobbies he collected.
TheTimeKnife@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 188d
If only we could have gotten Da Vinci and the Hussites together in order to build a wooden mech covered in cannons.
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 187d
Best i cam do is an orange shit and his goons threatening immigrants and kids.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 188d
"Sorry I couldn't work on your commission, I was busy trying to land a job with the Duke"
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 188d
It's a panzer.
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 188d
Dude definitely needed adderall
wer2@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 188d
I too have dozens of unfinished projects, so me and Leo are basically the same. /s
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 188d
How are the hair spring driven robots more efficient than one big hairspring to drive this thing??
DaVinci needs to take a class on physics.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 187d
Mona Lisa = mediocre painting of boring person
This device = Instant Party.
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 188d
Da Vinci definitely would have played Orkz.
Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 2 pts · 188d
It's a barnacle
Jayve@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 188d
War-nacle
Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 2 pts · 188d
Leonardo Da Vinci's Warnacle
simply perfect.
en français, l'Arapède de Léonard
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 187d
Obviously a doomsday-a-machine
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 188d
And if they listen to him then we could have started air travel early and had a moon base by now.
Nomorereddit@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 188d
Nah, moon dust is radioactive. Place isnt that nice.
TomArrr@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 188d
Now we know what a spinny tank is for, a radioactive moon dust displacer.