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Do you even lift?
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Do you even lift?
I want a robot arm...
or a Terminator hand like this guy made
Do you even lift?
And not only did the Martians either not know of (which is incredible), or abstain from, the wheel, but in their apparatus singularly little use is made of the fixed pivot or relatively fixed pivot, with circular motions thereabout confined to one plane. Almost all the joints of the machinery present a complicated system of sliding parts moving over small but beautifully curved friction bearings. And while upon this matter of detail, it is remarkable that the long leverages of their machines are in most cases actuated by a sort of sham musculature of the disks in an elastic sheath; these disks become polarised and drawn closely and powerfully together when traversed by a current of electricity. In this way the curious parallelism to animal motions, which was so striking and disturbing to the human beholder, was attained. |
War of the Worlds is great! H.G. Wells actually got in trouble for his radio broadcast of it, it was so realistic that people actually thought Martians were invading. One farmer shot up his water tower because he thought it was a Martian invader.The 80s SciFi didn't predict electro muscle.
The 1890s did. War of the Worlds in fact. 1898
Even BattleTech did this in the 70s with concept art.
Relevant excerpt from the book "War of the Worlds" for those interested:
And not only did the Martians either not know of (which is incredible), or abstain from, the wheel, but in their apparatus singularly little use is made of the fixed pivot or relatively fixed pivot, with circular motions thereabout confined to one plane. Almost all the joints of the machinery present a complicated system of sliding parts moving over small but beautifully curved friction bearings. And while upon this matter of detail, it is remarkable that the long leverages of their machines are in most cases actuated by a sort of sham musculature of the disks in an elastic sheath; these disks become polarised and drawn closely and powerfully together when traversed by a current of electricity. In this way the curious parallelism to animal motions, which was so striking and disturbing to the human beholder, was attained.
It will absolutely blow your mind what we KNEW was possible 100 years ago but are just now able to prototype today.
Never think Old people can't dream folks.
Oh, we'll make it. Modern education does a very poor job of explaining just how robust a biosphere is. That and everyone and their brother misquotes or misreads the IPCC reports.War of the Worlds is great! H.G. Wells actually got in trouble for his radio broadcast of it, it was so realistic that people actually thought Martians were invading. One farmer shot up his water tower because he thought it was a Martian invader.
I think its all about having the materials to build your idea, imagine what they could have accomplished 100 years ago with the materials we have today. I'd imagine in a hundred more years they'd say the same thing of today. (if we make it that long)