Long before Angelina Jolie was starring in Maleficent — even before Hackers — she played a killer cyborg in the movie Cyborg 2. And she recently told an interviewer that watching this scene, in which her cyborg character had her head removed, made her feel "really ill" and puke.
Through the leaning pose of this futuristic rider, and the outstretched limbs of his steed, Hungarian builder and artist Kristof (legoalbert) manages to impart a beautiful sense of motion to this creation using relatively few bricks. It’s not hard to visualize the leaping gait of this long-legged robot as it efficiently navigates the obstacles of some other-worldly landscape.
But the poetic backstory to this figure really completes the piece and leaves me wanting to see more of the savage world in Kristof’s imagination:
“Dark cloaked shadow-men patrol the wilderness of the Afterworld, roaming around on their tall artificial mounts. Swiftly rushing trough the densest of the forests, zig-zagging on the streets of the dead cities, they’re only vulnerable to the Vultures of the Plain, out in the endless grassfields, where the Insectmen rule.”
The Hungarian Cube (Magyar kocka) or Kádár-kocka (Kadar Cube) is named after János Kádár, the Communist leader of Hungary between 1956 and 1988. It's a standardized type of residential house built in Hungary after WWII. There are still tens of thousands of them left, and people have personalized them in gorgeous ways.
seriously making wands important was one of the biggest and earliest worldbuilding missteps in the potterverse
wands are boring as shit and making magic utterly dependent on them is straight-up bizarre
like for real this is a universe where the most powerful magic user in the world would be as potent as a wet noodle if he didnt have access to not just a wand but a specific wand that chose him out of however many hundreds there may or may not be available
wow
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this flyer just goes straight in saying shit like “old motherfuckers miss rocky and bullwinkle so make them hand over their coin purses with this” and i love it
Bunker.jordanI'll be more interested when lasers can be used to shoot drunk drivers off the road.
Bunker.jordanMAGNETOSPERM is also the title to unrelated X-Men fanfic...
Still can’t see why people defend this pitiful excuse of a state
igus announced trials of “tribo-filament”, which apparently is substantially more wear-resistant than other 3D printer filaments.
The company says the material is designed for “dynamic applications”, meaning bearings or other features that involve a lot of friction. Typical plastics like ABS or PLA will degrade due to friction.
This chart from igus illustrates the extremely low abrasive characteristics, which they say is “up to 50 times more abrasion-resistant than conventional 3D printer materials.”
It may be that we see a jump in the number of mechanical devices as a result of this material’s availability. Even existing designs will become longer-lived, as joints and friction-bearing surfaces will last much longer.
For now the product is available only as a sample, which you can request at the link below.
Via igus
Bunker.jordanugh
i strongly disliked bioshock infinite but imagine how much grosser it would have been if the lead female character never got to speak
A Wide-field view of the Pencil Nebula
NGC 2736, also known as the Pencil Nebula, is located in the constellation Vela about 815 light-years away and is part the the Vela Supernova Remnant. This image of the region of sky around the Pencil Nebula shows a spectacular celestial landscape featuring the blue filaments of the Vela supernova remnant, the red glow of clouds of hydrogen and countless stars. It is a colour composite made from exposures from the Digitized Sky Survey 2.
Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2
Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin.
Bunker.jordanyeah...
Last year, Google bought eight robotics companies in just six months, making the search giant a US military contractor. So what is the relationship between Google and the Department of Defense? This comic sheds a bit of light on the current situation.
Bunker.jordanadventure cat indeed
catsbeaversandducks:My Adopted Cat Is The Best Climbing Partner Ever
Via Bored Panda
ARE YOU KIDDING ME
NICOLE LOOK
I have to do this to Ames 😍
adventure cat
An interesting trick you can do with a a fast CPU and a GPIO pin mapped directly to memory is an FM transmitter. Just toggle a pin on and off fast enough, and you have a crude and kludgy transmitter. [Brandon] saw a few builds that turned a Raspberry Pi into an FM radio transmitter and realized a lot of toy remote control cars use a frequency in the same range a Pi can transmit at. It’s not much of a leap to realize the Pi can control these remote control cars using only a length of wire attached to a GPIO pin.
The original hack that turned a Pi GPIO pin into an FM transmitter mapped a GPIO pin to memory, cycled through that memory at about 100 MHz, and added a fractional divider to slightly adjust the frequency, turning it into an FM transmitter. Cheap RC cars usually listen for radio signals at 27 and 49 MHz. It doesn’t take much to realize commanding RC cars with a Pi is possible.
The only problem with this idea is that most RC cars use pulse modulation. For an RC transmitter to send the command for ‘forward’, a synchronization pulse is sent, then a series of pulses and pauses. The frequency doesn’t change at all, something the originally FM code doesn’t do. [Brandon] realized that if he just moved the frequency up to something the RC car wasn’t listening to, that would register as a zero.
All that was left was to figure out the command codes for his RC truck. For this, [Brandon] decided brute force would be the best option. Armed with a script and a webcam, he cycled through all possible combinations until the webcam detected a moving truck. Subtlety brilliant, if you ask us. Of course more complex commands required an oscilloscope, but now [Brandon] has a git full of all the code to control a cheap RC car with a Pi.
A reduction in the width of the GRS observed since 1995 (NASA/ESA/A. Simon – GSFC)
It used to be said with confidence by even grade-school kids that the largest storm in the Solar System was Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, which has been churning for at least 350 years and could fit three Earths across it. And while it’s true that the GRS is a truly enormous hurricane by Earthly standards, these days it’s not as “great” as it used to be — over the past couple of decades the GRS has shrunk to only about a third of its former size.
“Recent Hubble Space Telescope observations confirm that the Great Red Spot (GRS) is now approximately 10,250 miles across, the smallest diameter we’ve ever measured,” said Amy Simon of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
That equals about 16,500 kilometers, or about one and one-third Earths across. Which is still very big, yes, but nothing compared to what it once was!
The giant anticyclonic storm in Jupiter’s southern hemisphere was first noted by Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini in 1665 as a “permanent spot.” (Source) It has been continuously observed in telescopes since 1878, when astronomers estimated it to be as big as 25,500 miles (41,000 km) across. In 1979, NASA’s Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 missions measured the GRS to be 14,500 miles (23,335 km) wide.
Image of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot from Voyager 1, 1979 data. Edited by Björn Jónsson.
The storm has been slowly shrinking since the 1930s. In 2012, though, the Great Red Spot went on a crash diet, since then losing 580 miles in width per year and changing shape from a dramatic oval to more of a demure circle.
While the cause of the reduction isn’t yet known, it’s speculated that small eddies are changing the circulation patterns within Jupiter’s atmosphere.
“In our new observations it is apparent that very small eddies are feeding into the storm,” said Simon. “We hypothesized that these may be responsible for the accelerated change by altering the internal dynamics and energy of the Great Red Spot.”
Read more here on the Hubble news page, and learn more about the Great Red Spot here.
Punk’s not dead. Just exhausted.
Punk needs a blanket. Maybe some chamomile tea.
shhhh. small noises. small bassline solo.
Bunker.jordanAaaaand, a new tumblr just created.... scifilivingspaces.tumblr.com
Bunker.jordanThis is actually kind of disturbing...
My thoughts upon seeing this picture, in order: 1) AAAAAAAAA THOSE EYES. 2) It's actually extremely well done. 3) What does it transform into? A regular pony, I guess? 4) AAAAAAA THAT MOUTH IT'S GOING TO DEVOUR MY SOUL. 5) No one better goddamn show this to Michael Bay.
Bunker.jordanpreeeetty
