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Don’t know if that’s a photoshop, someone’s Public Works project ran out of taxpayer bucks, or if it’s just another Road To Ruin. At least it’s not a one-way street. Whatever it is, you needn’t go further because it’s time to pull over and park a while on The Overnight Open Thread.
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The End of Civilization?
by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 38 Comments › )Filed under Blogmocracy, Caption This, Cars & Trucks, Diary of Daedalus, Humor, OOT, Open thread at July 2nd, 2012 - 11:00 pm
Crank It, Turn It, Pump It
by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 125 Comments › )Filed under Art, History, Movies, Music, OOT, Open thread, Technology at June 30th, 2012 - 11:00 pm
“Mechanical Principles” – Simple gear actions from 1930 by Ralph Steiner, set to classical music. From the UToobage comments:
Some of the mechanisms featured:
0:16 Positive displacement pump
0:26 Four-stroke engine piston;
0:50 Simple steam engines or pumps;
2:00 Steam engine reversing gear as on ships;
3:10 Differential gear;
4:05 Worm gear;
4:10 Archimedes screw;
5:22 Geneva gear;
5:32 Pawl and ratchet;
5:55 Grasshopper escapement;
7:15 Scotch yokes;
8:07 Positive displacement pump (same as 0:16);
9:29 Wheel and disc integrator used in analog computers;
9:54 Possibly a turbine.
So let’s all crank it, turn it and pump it up on The Overnight Open Thread.
Rain Down From Above
by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 17 Comments › )Filed under Art, Entertainment, Humor, OOT, Open thread, Politics, Russia, Satire, Socialism at July 8th, 2012 - 11:00 pm
Ivan Leonidovich Maximov‘s “Rain Down From Above.” Read into it what you like, it has a happy ending, and because we all like happy endings, it’s presented here on The Overnight Open Thread.
Tags: animation, Ivan Maximov, Overnight Open Thread, Political Commentary
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