belt posted:

yo when is this dumb motherfucker gonna get some of his stupid engineers to drag that dumb metal tube through that cave?

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The tastes of the duke were peculiar. He had a fine eye for colour and effects. He disregarded the 'decora' of mere fashion. His plans were bold and fiery, and his conceptions glowed with barbaric lustre. There are some who would have thought him mad. His followers felt that he was not.

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Prince Prospero was happy and dauntless and sagacious. When his dominions were half depopulated, he summoned to his presence a thousand hale and light-hearted friends from among the knights and dames of his court, and with these retired to the deep seclusion of one of his crenellated abbeys.

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But, in spite of these things, it was a gay and magnificent revel.

Fried Watermelon posted:

Grimes is releasing a new album and the only way to hear it is in the new Tesla car

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A while ago I had a Mercedes 230 that I didn’t drive much. The police told me that I had to move it or they’d tow it away. Well, I didn’t want to keep it and I didn’t have anywahere to store it so I decided to use it for something else. I rigged the car’s CD player with our latest release of Merzbow’s “Noise Embryo” CD so that the music started when the car was turned on and it was impossible to turn it off. I put it up for sale as an extremely limited edition of the “Noise Embryo” CD but no one ever bought it, and in the end the car broke down.

cumshitter posted:

the tesla gift shop: the only profitable part of the company

Tesla Tour Guide: Ok! Everyone ready for a future-tastic day? Now remember: there are no safety signs or warning colors and all of the dangerous machinery is operating so fast the human eye can't see it. Please stay within the Tesla corporate red lines on the Tesla corporate red floor. Ok, lets go!

*Tesla Tour guide takes two steps out of the gift shop, pauses, and slowly collapses into a pile of sliced meat cubes*

Fried Watermelon posted:

Elon Musk should have taken more acid

Kommienzuspadt posted:

Unnffggh my cock so HARD

thatguy posted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_inventors_killed_by_their_own_inventions

wikipedia has enough dead dudes to have categorical lists of inventors killed by their own invention

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Valerian Abakovsky (1895–1921) constructed the Aerowagon, an experimental high-speed railcar fitted with an aircraft engine and propeller traction; it was intended to carry Soviet officials. On 24 July 1921, a group led by Fyodor Sergeyev took the Aerowagon from Moscow to the Tula collieries to test it, with Abakovsky also on board. They successfully arrived in Tula, but on the return route to Moscow the Aerowagon derailed at high speed, killing everyone on board, including Abakovsky (at the age of 25).

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Alexander Bogdanov (22 August 1873 – 7 April 1928) was a Russian physician, philosopher, science fiction writer and revolutionary of Belarusian ethnicity who experimented with blood transfusion, attempting to achieve eternal youth or at least partial rejuvenation. He died after he took the blood of a student suffering from malaria and tuberculosis, who may have also been the wrong blood type

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Thomas Midgley, Jr. (1889–1944) was an American engineer and chemist who contracted polio at age 51, leaving him severely disabled. He devised an elaborate system of ropes and pulleys to help others lift him from bed. He became accidentally entangled in the ropes and died of strangulation at the age of 55. However, he is better known for two of his other inventions: the tetraethyl lead (TEL) additive to gasoline, and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)

Pyromaniac Ida posted:

It's a steam powered, cast iron box that you use to travel under water. The light inside comes from oil lanterns. Help me get inside.

Lawman 0 posted:

Hasn't Russia been going through a bunch of cockups in its aerospace sector as well?

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

in star trek’s history earth was in the middle of the eugenics wars rn

maybe they’re implying that the muskman was created in a lab like his kids were

babypolis posted:

oh god no it wasnt this, it was more recent. one of these could be paid pr but 3?

TrilliontonNixon posted:

It sucks because the vacuum tube is actually a pretty neat idea

Pebergehund posted:

maglev hasn’t really caught on, what if we made it more expensive?

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

lmao



up up UP

Myron Baloney posted:

cowon s9 for life, I still really miss that thing. nothing sounded better until poweramp in like 2015.

Jonny 290 posted:

these customers are both deranged and stupid

Abel Wingnut posted:

somebody post the new musk reply, i’m on mobile

it’s real good

Teal posted:

This is why flying cars don't work

ekuNNN posted:

Rated PG-34 posted:

what if sewers could transport you and your piss and poo poo

orcinus posted:

:disruptive:

orcinus posted:

Slight alpha tweak + lazy eye disruption.

orcinus posted:

Just as a further bit of curiosity...

Sodium based batteries somewhat similar to this have been a thing for quite a while now.
Crazy high energy density. Unfortunately, sodium salts have to be molten, so their operating temps were something like 300-400 deg C.

Obv. not ideal in terms of safety and day-to-day use, but they have been used here and there in military and space industry stuff.

Morphix posted:

oh
well it's probably an isolated case...

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The most likely explanation here is that we are seeing something more akin to the aeroshell or cocoon of a Starship hopper, with a huge amount of thought and debate ultimately landing on this oddity as the fastest, most affordable, and most data-rich path forward for full-scale BFR testing.

DominoKitten posted:

Hello everyone, a self driving Tesla S just destroyed an autonomous robot:

COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:

elon peddling a da vinci-like contraption with bags of money for ballast

Genderfluent posted:

Don't worry, it just needs to use 5 supercharger slots to charge up. Not going to be a problem

https://electrek.co/2018/12/13/tesla-semi-black-prototype-supercharger/