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Clearly a tank
According to the documentary Futurama it is a tank with crab legs!
And ice cream is just a byproduct
A tank pre-steam power. The force of steam was known about long before, but not utilized. Maybe because the metals weren’t good enough yet to hold pressure? Imagine a steampunk Rome.
Yes, the metal wasn’t good enough, and the manufacturing tolerances weren’t small enough to hold pressure.
When railroading time comes you can railroad—but not before.
–Robert A. Heinlein, The Door Into Summer
Given a translator, can you even imagine Leonardo da Vinci and Hideo Kojima in a room together?
A weapon to surpass Metal Gear…
Wood gear
Solid
Second floor basement?!?!!
Surpass metal gear?
No, because Da Vinci died in 1519, whereas Kojima was born in 1963.
Yeah, hence “a translator”. You didn’t think I meant from Renaissance-era Italian to modern Japanese, did you? No one person could probably do that. I meant a translator from this plane to the next.
My dude the other guy was being facetious…
So was I. “Yes, and”, as we say in improv. (I’ve never done improv.)
Welcome back Da Vinci
Leonardo’s was literally just running a copy of Besiege 24/7 in his brain, wasn’t he?
Yeah, he designed these things for Sforza because designing war machines pays money.
War. War never changes.
(Walks into the diatance)
I love he was inventive enough to design a tank a couple centuries before anyone actually built one, but couldn’t piece together a better idea for aiming in any direction than “cannons pointed in every conceivable direction.”
That’s how ship cannons worked too, at the time. Powerful but heavy to move, slow to reload, not very accurate… having more of them was the only way to have sustained firepower.
But Leonardo also left a lot of these sketches that look less like actual projects and more like the superhero fantasies of an extremely gifted six years old. “And look, this shit has cannons… Cannons EVERYWHERE! Bam! Kapow!”. I guess it’s what happens when you’re so great at drawing that even the doodles you do when bored look like masterpieces.
Old man Da Vinci furiously scribbling while also delivering the overexcited stream-of-consciousness babble of a little kid with his favorite thing
Why shoot at one target when you can shoot at 30? (as long as they’re encircling the machine in a nicely spaced out, orderly fashion…)
Imagine paying for a weapon design only to end up with two incomplete designs and one being a stupid flying thing that will never work and a bunch of naked people pictures that are at least finished, but kind of useless because doctors continued to just poison people anyway
He is one of my favorite historical figures, but he must have been absolutely infuriating to deal with.
I bet he had ADD with all those hobbies he collected.
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If only we could have gotten Da Vinci and the Hussites together in order to build a wooden mech covered in cannons.
Best i cam do is an orange shit and his goons threatening immigrants and kids.
The machina magnifica!
“Sorry I couldn’t work on your commission, I was busy trying to land a job with the Duke”
Dude definitely needed adderall
Da Vinci definitely would have played Orkz.
Obviously a doomsday-a-machine
How are the hair spring driven robots more efficient than one big hairspring to drive this thing??
DaVinci needs to take a class on physics.
And if they listen to him then we could have started air travel early and had a moon base by now.
