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Martytoof posted:boiler explodes and scalds his friend's remaining arm I don't think people realize taht steam and all that contains is actually important for the "steam punk".
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kwinkles posted:yeah "steam powered" is basically pneumatics but you use fire and boiling water instead of a compressor or vacuum pump because it was way easier to boil water than create a vacuum turbopump or compressor if you are restricted to 19th century manufacturing tolerances and materials Yea victorian era industry was pretty cool.
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May 30, 2012 08:26
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Socracheese posted:An ideal place to use a complicated set of gears is ignored, good job idiots Gears are pretty complicated honestly. Even just conceptually they are non-intuitive.
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May 30, 2012 21:54
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Dumbledore 64 posted:true story recently i tried playing a record while blowing it with a hot air dryer and it got really warped at first and was skipping around all over the place, but then as the heat evened out the centripetal forces made the whole record completely flat and even.
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May 30, 2012 21:56
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kwinkles posted:but why do people get all excited about the aesthetic of steam things but not, say, the elegance of a hydraulic backhoe. The main part of the Steam Punk aesthetic has nothing to do with the steam part. It's the rich Victorian Aesthetic with the birth of crude machine tools (gears, paddle-boats, etc) that marked the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. That said, most of the "true" engineers I've met do have an appreciation for the complexity of modern machines, myself included. Turbo Charger's are loving awesome!
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qirex posted:steampunk is popular because nerds like girls in corsets and will dress all sorts of silly ways to hang out with them [see also: goths] If girls wear corsets because of steam punk that is just another win for the genre imo.
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