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BasicLich posted:...I don't recall which debauched Julio-Claudian Emperor allegedly looted his tomb and defiled the remains to recover the armor his remains were interred in, but that's another (maybe apocryphal) story around the myth of Alexander Feels like its gotta be in some Mega Wealthy person's private collection, or in the Vatican Vault.
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By popular demand posted:I'd like to see someone develop a flintknapping robot. Strictly as an art project, I'm not expecting any serious demand. Call up Boston Dynamics, a flint-knapping dog/horse robot with three legs and two arms sounds cool
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Some of the Polynesian ships were 30m long and manned by up to 200 people, they were significantly larger than the ships Magellan and Drake used to circumnavigate the world. My understanding is that the 'voyaging' conoes were about half that length. Larger 'war' canoes weren't capable of operating in the open ocean. These things were lashed together. The lashings weren't capable of handling the stress. From what I've read, the war canoes carried up to 100 people. Neither of these were comparable to the 85 ton Carracks used by Magellan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_(ship)
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The Bloop posted:We get it, you knap I wish. and so will all of you when society finishes going to hell in a hand cart By popular demand posted:I'd like to see someone develop a flintknapping robot. Strictly as an art project, I'm not expecting any serious demand. Don't think that would be possible. From what I've seen watching folks do it a lot of the skill lies in things like the sound the impact makes and what that tells you about the crystaline structure of the piece in hand, and being able to respond on the fly to how the flakes actually come off. You could maybe get away with using perfectly identical slabs of glass as a starting material. If you just want a robot to smash rocks against each other you could probably interest these builders of insane and bad rear end devices - https://www.srl.org/ (Boston Dynamics? Pffft)
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Give the flintbot a bigass x-ray source so it can continuously inspect the interior of the stone.
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Flint tools with ±.05 IT7 tolerances.
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EmptyVessel posted:I wish. Yes I'm sure we will probably run out of metal knives in my lifetime
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The Bloop posted:Yes I'm sure we will probably run out of metal knives in my lifetime Followed shortly after by all metal capable of being sharpened into a knife.
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The Lone Badger posted:Give the flintbot a bigass x-ray source so it can continuously inspect the interior of the stone. I have faith in Flintbot aka Knapster. With X-rays and microphones monitoring every move it’ll put all those fleshy stone chippers out of business in a few years
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Cat Hatter posted:Followed shortly after by all metal capable of being sharpened into a knife. I'm gonna need that one dude to remake his... bismuth? Knife, that really crazy looking one, and store it in a vault somewhere. Be a pal and set up the next era's hero artifact.
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That looks like so much fun and also I would put the pole through the window and be crumpled in a pile with my vertebrae evenly distributed through my body within 30 seconds.
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OwlFancier posted:It might be a hole cut so they can access a joist to attach it to. Watched this like five times cause i was baffled too and yeah that's what's it looks like. There's no way anyone anchors a mount to a drywall ceiling for that type of badassery, so it's probably on a joist 6" or less above the drywall
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I’m the impending embolism
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:I’m the impending embolism If there's one thing shop teachers like to talk about--okay if there's two things shop teachers like to talk about
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Tac Dibar posted:some kind of cool broom-dace. 
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uber_stoat posted:lmao Antigravitas posted:Context: Two old TV shows are being revived to great excitement
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About 10 years ago, a bunch of Universal's Waterworld stunt show performers started strapping GoPros to themselves and various parts of the stage to record their performances. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9c7BkDIZsw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhpzdxUZ7iQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noTyLOqvoGc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtFvI3xmEX0 Not to be outdone, drivers for Lights, Motors, Action at Disney did the same. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjCTTiSSsB4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXUvbwgIxbY
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