#death rays

[irregularincidents]

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.

[selwyngrimm]

Here's a drawing from a German workbook from college.

[skjam]

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…

[vampyfrnk]

this is my favorite clip to ever exist.

[kings-favorite-courtjester]

this one's for all you rock n rollers, all you crash queens and motor babies... Listen up!!

[notafashionstatementitsasideblog]

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.

[w1lmuttart]

Enough guilt you can make a bouquet out of it

[anonymoosen]

Guys I think I got the wrong Misterman Guyfella and Umbert Actually

Reference:

[chronivore]

[crabsnpersimmons]

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.)

[syn4k]

you only die once! when you do, make sure to make it as intentionally traumatic for everyone else around you as possible!!

[classichorrorblog]

Bloodbath At The House of Death (1984)

[madcat-world]

A Sound of Thunder - Unita-N

[thatsbelievable]

[sparklejumpropequeen1949]

8 year old me is crying for a hug

[syaruru]

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