#Death rays
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On the run up to the Second World War, there was an amount of anxiety in Britain about the Germans having a potential technological edge over the British, much as they had had in the First World War initially with the use of zeppelins and bomber aircraft.
The solution to this, in the 1930s at least, was the British Air Ministry offering a £1000 prize for anyone that could invent an energy projection weapon that could kill a sheep at 100 paces.
Now, despite English inventor/crank Harry Grindell Matthews (main image) claiming to have invented a death ray that could ignite gunpowder and "incapacitate" enemy troops from four miles away all the way back in 1923, he ended up not presenting anything useful for the competition.
Instead a pair from the Radio Research Station, Robert Watson Watt and Skip Wilkins (after concluding that it would require too much energy to actually create a death ray that works like they do in science fiction) were inspired to create radar instead, which both gave the British an edge over German bomber planes once the technology was perfected in the 1940s and actually had peaceful applications , such as with civilian passenger aircraft.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, both the Germans and the Japanese were also experimenting with death rays of their own, with the Japanese allegedly being the most successful with their experiments with directed microwave weaponry. The Ku-Go, as it was supposedly called, was ultimately not created (obviously) by the end of the war, but it did reportedly make a lot of rabbits, mice and such very unhappy.
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Here's a drawing from a German workbook from college.
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Comic Book Review: DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest #22: Secret Origins of Super-Heroes
Comic Book Review: DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest #22: Secret Origins of Super-Heroes edited by E. Nelson Bridwell “Secret origins” are a big part of the superhero genre. Since, back in the day, most superheroes had secret identities, just how exactly they’d come to gain powers or the motivation to fight crime was also a secret to the public. But we readers got to be in on the secret, creating a…
#accidental death#airplanes#aliens#amnesia#Animal Man#animal powers#animals#anthology#Black Lightning#business executives#charity work#colors#comedy#comic book#crashes#death rays#decathletes#drug dealers#dwindling party#elections#explosions#gangs#gold#Green Lantern#henchmen#high school#Inferior Five#inheritance#kryptonite factor#lasers
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this is my favorite clip to ever exist.
#frank iero#gerard way#ray toro#mikey way#my chemical romance#mcr#mcredit#fake your death#greatest hits trailer#gifs*#*
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this one's for all you rock n rollers, all you crash queens and motor babies... Listen up!!
#artists on tumblr#art#fanart#original art#mcr#mcr gerard#gerard way#my chem gerard#my chemical gerard#my chemical romance#mcr fanart#my chem fanart#my chemical romance fanart#danger days fanart#danger days the true lives of the fabulous killjoys#danger days#party poison#fun ghoul#kobra kid#mcr killjoys#killjoys#fabulous four#killjoy fanart#my chem gee#my chemical mikey#my chem romance#my chemical fucking romance#my chem#my chemical ray#dr. death
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Y’know, I think the saddest part about hearing of Bobs passing was the fact that the last time he was seen alive was 3 weeks ago and that his body was so badly decomposed, like really no one came to check up on him?? I don’t know much about his family but seriously no one thought it was odd for him to drop off the face of the earth for almost a month???
Obviously I am aware of his actions in the past and his current political views and in no way condone any of them, however he was still a human, a very influential human no less, with a phenomenal talent for drumming, and to hear that it took that long for people to find him is truly devastating.
I’ve only seen two videos of people celebrating his death but the fact that people are celebrating in the first place is disgusting, hate him all you want but celebrating is sick.
#empathy challenge hard mode for some reason#posting about your excitement for another persons death is just straight up weird#do you want a medal or something?#of course I feel conflicted about grieving him because he was a POS#it’s just the way his body rotted for however long without anyone looking that gets me the most#my chemical romance#mcr#bob bryar#frank iero#mikey way#gerard way#ray toro
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Enough guilt you can make a bouquet out of it
#hiiii I’m dropping subtle hints that I’m reading tpn again#(I’m reading tpn again)#I’m dropping even more subtle hints which character has a complete death grip on me rn#(grumpy cyclops guy my beloved you make me so sad)#this was just a sketch I didn’t plan on posting but then I uh. kept working on it#on only one layer too! been a while since I did that lol#the promised neverland#tpn#tpn ray#art#digitalart
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Guys I think I got the wrong Misterman Guyfella and Umbert Actually
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#YALL IT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE#FIDDLEFORDS ALSO VOICED BY ALEX#LIKE MISTERMAN / GREEN SHIRT GUY#GREEN GUY ALSO HAS A VIOLENT AND CRAZY SIDE#LIKE FIDDLEFORD AND HIS DEATH RAYS AND REVENGE ROBOTS#AND UMBERT IS JS LIKE FORD BC THEYRE BOTH INFORMATIVE NERDS OR SOMETHING#GREEN GUY EVEN HAD A SONNN#LIKE FIDDSSSSS#stand with animation#umbert actually#misterman guyfella#gravity falls#stanford pines#fiddleford#fiddauthor#in a way?#fiddleford mcgucket#ford pines#my art#art#gravity falls fanart#tate mcgucket#moosenarts#anonymoosen#bill cipher#kinda#fiddleauthor
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day two of clawing my way out of artblock
tried something a little more ambitious today: i've been thinking of how i can bring my digital art style into my traditional art. so i tried experimenting by drawing chef Moon from my Have You Eaten? AU with markers and colour pencils (because honestly, it's the lineless details in their design that make them harder to draw traditionally, which is why i lined them all with a fineliner in their original drawing, which is fine, but it's a different feel from lineless version of my digital art, so i wanted to see if i can accomplish it)
i was tempted to just leave today's practice at that, but then i decided to note down my thoughts:
(definitely recommend marking up your drawings/studies, or write your notes elsewhere.)
overall i felt kinda dissatisfied with the experiment and marking it up with my thoughts helped pinpoint the problem areas and what i should try for the next time. so i took all that and tried again:
(i also decided last minute to try something with the lineart, adding darker areas by adding a few dots of a darker blue and blending it out. dunno if i'll do that all the time, but it's pretty)
but i'm glad i kept going after the initial experiment. i'm pretty happy with the final one (maybe i'll try Sun and Eclipse in the coming days. you have been thoroughly warned.)
#fnaf moon#fnaf dca#dca fandom#Have You Eaten? AU#Moon Have You Eaten? AU#crab art#traditional art#bright colours#why Moon?#Moon is the easiest to draw#Sun's rays will be the death of me#Eclipse in general will be the death of me#i'm still learning how to use colour pencils and water based markers#like i'm trying to learn how to achieve a certain level of polish with them#i know i can achieve it with watercolour paints but i'm too lazy to break out my brushes and paints#and it annoys me that after all these years i still haven't figured out the best way to use colour pencils#so i'mma give it a try#and hopefully not get carpal tunnel along the way
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you only die once! when you do, make sure to make it as intentionally traumatic for everyone else around you as possible!!
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Bloodbath At The House of Death (1984)
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A Sound of Thunder - Unita-N
#A Sound of Thunder#Unita-N#Ray Bradbury#aliens#dinosaurs#astronaut#animal death#hunters#sci fi#digital art
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#How to Tell if the Sun is Beaming Death Rays at Earth#tips#tricks#life hacks#helpful hints#advice#Sun#TW death#unreality
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8 year old me is crying for a hug
#this is a girlblog#girlblogging#just girly things#girlhood#this is what makes us girls#lana del rey#lana del ray aka lizzy grant#female manipulator#hell is a teenage girl#im just a girl#cinnamon girl#trauma#nostalgia#angelcore#angel dust#obviously doctor you've never been a 13 year old girl#mommy issues#2007#bed rotting#thought daughter#girls just want to have fun#girl interrupted#female manipulators#female rage#smarty lana del rey#starved to death#blythe doll#coquette dollete#princesscore#girl interupted syndrome
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so little... so goddamn precious... old man yaoi how you heal the soul... these silly old guys are panacea-esque i swear...
(fidds would never use the memory gun post-weirdmageddon, ESPECIALLY not on ford!! this is just a silly gag)
i hard hc that fidds is always wearing ford's favorite sweater but it's much bigger on him so it looks like he isn't wearing pants all the time but no one in the shack really gafs
#let fidds make giant murder robots goddamn it !!!#god forbid old men have hobbies...#ford is just trying to be a good husband#we as a community forget that fidds just makes giant murder robots & death rays for shits & giggles & he's definitely on many a watchlist#old man yaoi#gravity falls#stanford pines#fiddleford mcgucket#fiddauthor#fordsquared#gravity falls fanart#sketch#my art#fiddleford hadron mcgucket#littleford mcgucket#squishford pines
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