#powerful engine

[engine4sale]

Powerful engine ready to roar on roads

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

why aren't there more mysteries that take place in nursing homes & retirement communities. i want to watch a group of deranged retirees-cum-amateur-detectives combine their powers of:

decades of life experience

boredom-fueled busybody shamelessness

access to the most gossipy next-door-neighbors in existence

"I am too old to be arrested and/or give a shit" attitude

and solve crimes. this should be an enormous subgenre.

[oldguydoesstuff]

Arcing current at a substation disconnect switch shutting off a 15,000 volt circuit.

[eatentrout]

Meme drawings are slowly helping my artblock.

[chamerionwrites]

Also idk but I feel it is important, for reasons of genre understanding, to recognize that good old fashioned murder is like the least violent thing anybody ever does in a proper spy story

[tygerland]

[ryan-sometimes]

Being a biochemistry student is so funny because I’ll be staring off into space and look deep in thought but really I’m just thinking about CRISPR. The Roman Empire of every biochem student

[bleue-flora]

Ok, I recently wrote an essay [here] talking about the definition and duties of civil engineering as well as the ethics because of the brain rot @swordfright gave me with calling Dream Sam’s ultimate engineering project. So, because I actually am a civil engineer I took it upon myself to design the title and summary of quantities sheets just like I do at work for roads but with Dream as the project instead. And in honor of angst day sponsored by @sixteenth-day-event, I figured I’d share it because I feel like it kinda works for the prison of the mind prompt.

“Sam’s “ultimate engineering project” he deemed too damaged like a bumpy road or crumbling building that wasn’t worthy of patching and filling in the cracks or reinforcing, that’s too eroded to be fixed and preserved. So, Sam strived to tear him down to the bedrock so he could remake, remold, and reengineer Dream according to his design for the common safety, public health and well-fair.”

{These are very similar to the actual sheets I make day to day, which I shall not share for the sake of doxing my location, but yea pretty much everything has a significance. Some of it doesn’t necessarily make sense but that was because I was more so taking inventory of what we see in lore (so you know I counted ;) lol)}

[elektrostantsiya]

Arabelle - GE steam turbine for nuclear power plants ☢️🏭⚡

😻/😻/😻/😻

[justmenoworries]

Small neat detail I noticed: Vox's and Sir Pentious' use of their hypnotism kind of reflects their characters.

Vox actively uses his hypnotic eye to influence people into believing him and buying from him. And he uses it very often. To the point that when any kind of obstacle comes his way, the hypno-eye just seems to activate on instinct.

Pentious has only used his hypnotism once so far and it's when he's defending himself from Angel Dust. His hypnotism is also much weaker than Vox's. Whereas Vox seems to be able to brainwash people and the effects last for some time, Pentious's hypnosis only stuns Angel and Angel manages to break out of it after like a second.

I just thought that was really interesting.

[science70]

"Switched-On Repair Man", Countdown #49, 22 January 1972.

[toaster-boi]

just realized why the Basho arms are asymmetrical. the left arm has two gigantic fuckoff pistons running from the back of the shoulder to the elbow, which fits with them having the highest melee damage modifier out of all arms since melee only goes on the left arm.

i never noticed because it's usually covered by a shoulder weapon, but that's such a neat detail kinda like the chainsaw having exhaust backfire when used, or the Shade Eye head's antennae folding down when its visor deploys.

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

The Taxi Project 1976: Steam Power Systems New York Taxi Prototype. A taxi concept for the MoMA commission made from aluminium for lightweight and resembling a small bus which provided plenty of interior space and easy access for wheelchairs. Propulsion was via a rear-mounted steam engine and the driver was protected by a bulletproof partition.

[friendlyengie]

Helmet-less helmets ft the best soldier I’ve ever drawn that I have been physically incapable of replicating in any art piece since.

[reality-detective]

It's mindbending to consider the amount of time and effort that goes into something as elaborate as this.

A testament of human engineering and creativity, digital or otherwise. 🤔

[drnikolatesla]

"Unlimited Power."

"It was clear to me many years ago that a new and better source of power had to be discovered to meet the ever increasing demands of mankind. In a lecture delivered before the American Institute of Electrical Engineers at Columbia University May 20, 1891, I said: “We are whirling through endless space with inconceivable speed, all around us everything is spinning, everything is moving, everywhere is energy. There must be some way of availing ourselves of this energy more directly. Then, with the light obtained from the medium, with the power derived from it, with every form of energy obtained without effort, from the store forever inexhaustible, humanity will advance with giant strides.”

"I have thought and worked with this object in view unremittingly and am glad to say that I have sufficient theoretical and experimental evidence to fill me with hope, not to say confidence, that my efforts of years will be rewarded and that we shall have at our disposal a new source of power, superior even to the hydro-electric, which may be obtained by means of simple apparatus everywhere and in almost constant and unlimited amount.“

—Nikola Tesla

“Our Future Motive Power.” Everyday Science & Mechanics. December 1931. Pg. 230-236.