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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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Autoportrait au nu mort, Man Ray, 1920
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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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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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Blessed with two minds.
Cursed to never use them.
#saw an x-ray of a two headed fawn last night and inspiration hit me like a truck#my art#art#skeleton#animal skeleton#dromaeosaur#dinosaur#dinosaur art#paleoart#tw animal death#cw animal death#tw skeleton#cw skeleton#tw death#cw death
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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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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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3/25/2014: MCR release their compilation album May Death Never Stop You, including the Attic Demos and the previously unreleased song “Fake Your Death”. This song would not be played live until #MCRLA5 on 10/17/22.
#my chemical romance#mcr#mcrchive#gerard way#frank iero#mikey way#ray toro#fake your death#may death never stop you
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i killed. i murdered. i'm nothing like these sleepy people here… nevertheless, you can actually be grateful? bastard… i’m saying… thank you. because you spilled blood, you saved all of these people’s lives. i couldn’t have done it without you. (ID in alt)
#vashwood#vash the stampede#nicholas d wolfwood#trigun#trigun maximum#participated in altades' dance collab :3 very grateful for the opportunity and many thanks to them for organizing this!#there was a lot of vw arc choices... but i went for the leonof arc bc it's a dear vw moment to me#i think a lot of the leonof arc further breaks down vash's ideology and for the readers - together with ww- to learn that his ideals aren't#pure naivety and that vash knows he's at an odd standpoint with himself. he's criticized ww for shooting rai-dei just prior when ww had don#so on the behalf of vash but here he thanks him for killing on behalf of his home and its genuine. bc vash's presence - although it's not#his fault - he was the reason leonof and gray had gotten to the ship and killed people there. that's the guilt he has to live with and#despite his anger he'd still resolute not to kill. meanwhile ww just did what he had to - beating down on a seemingly immortal monster but#at the core made up of many lives he had to take and i feel as the fight dragged on - his own mentality waned. committing active carnage#while remembering the orphanage... and bearing that guilt alongside the words vash left with him during rai-dei's death#only for vash to thank him afterwards what he's done and for apologizing for pushing his beliefs on ww when he had no solutions of his own#anyway. i just have so an immense love for this arc bc they just got around to appreciating each other in weird ways. though ofc its still#weird and confusing for ww bc every new info on vash it'll just be strange to him as someone who's human#ruporas art
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what are either of you guys favorite queer hcs for your favorite characters (if you have any ofc)
I have a cursed current fav queer headcanon:
I like to think Johnstantine had a massive crush on Ray Monde when he was young, and is embarrassed about it once he got older. Ray keeps gently turning young Constantine down but still takes care of him on the occasional times Constantine's homeless.
This probably isn't a popular hc but a friend of mine who I'm calling a Constantine Scholar had a similar hc so it counts now!!
#askjesncin#john constantine#hellblazer#ray monde#jl remix#i know canon timeline-wise Johnstantine was 14 but I imagine he met Ray when he already formed Mucous Membrane at 16-18 yrs old#Ray's too much of a sweetie to cast Johnstantine away- he knows he needs to watch over the baby gays#I like to think in turn John takes care of Ray when he's older before Ray's tragic death
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rip misa you would have loved lana del rey.
#death note#misa misa#misa amane#girlblogging#girl blogger#lana del ray aesthetic#lana del rey#lana del ray aka lizzy grant#lana del slay#ldr#ldr aesthetic#lana stan#lana is god#anime and manga#girl blog aesthetic#girlblog aesthetic#girl interupted syndrome#gaslight gatekeep girlblog#girl interrupted#hell is a teenage girl#tumblr girls#girlhood#this is what makes us girls#this is a girlblog#ldr lyrics#ldr blog#ldr unreleased#lana del ray moodboard#lana unreleased#lana is our queen
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