sublime machinery

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http://pctrs.network.hu/clubpicture/1/8/_/bmwm5motor_108667_68739.jpg

Ste, Tuesday, 28 May 2013 12:16 (thirteen years ago)

http://people.bath.ac.uk/mtl21/images/F-1%20Rocket%20engine.JPG

Ste, Tuesday, 28 May 2013 12:21 (thirteen years ago)

http://oddstuffmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/bX6zC.jpg

Ste, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 13:18 (thirteen years ago)

Does my blimp look big in this?

nagl dude dude dude (ledge), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 15:33 (thirteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=663VWLgT8Lc

caek, Friday, 21 June 2013 09:26 (twelve years ago)

two months pass...

http://www.wired.com/business/2013/08/qq_containership/all/1

caek, Tuesday, 17 September 2013 04:20 (twelve years ago)

just about everything in this terrific fan-made video, but especially whatever that is at 0:39

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDUFaRiUwsk

Lee626, Tuesday, 17 September 2013 08:02 (twelve years ago)

http://helenography.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/dscf6602.jpg

there'll be no more polls in heaven (bends), Tuesday, 17 September 2013 08:07 (twelve years ago)

http://www.fototime.com/1BFC00CECA8AEBC/orig.jpg

there'll be no more polls in heaven (bends), Tuesday, 17 September 2013 08:13 (twelve years ago)

That blimp is ridiculous! Whose idea would it be to take a massive slow moving object full of men and vehicles to war?

not_goodwin, Tuesday, 17 September 2013 08:30 (twelve years ago)

one month passes...

http://i.imgur.com/lgCDCa0.gif

caek, Monday, 21 October 2013 02:11 (twelve years ago)

one year passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du9_Kn2y2VA#t=109

caek, Saturday, 25 October 2014 16:36 (eleven years ago)

five months pass...

good account https://twitter.com/MachinePix

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 18:05 (eleven years ago)

cool

Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 23:35 (eleven years ago)

http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-bertha/

, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 12:15 (eleven years ago)

two months pass...
three weeks pass...

https://twitter.com/nbashaw/status/615021067338403840

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 28 June 2015 14:46 (ten years ago)

good account caek

http://i.imgur.com/mTLFVur.png

, Monday, 6 July 2015 20:36 (ten years ago)

lol, literally just coming here to post that too

so cool

Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Monday, 6 July 2015 20:38 (ten years ago)

i like that it's called 'troll a'

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 22:26 (ten years ago)

Those stilts are straight from a Chris Foss piece

Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 23:29 (ten years ago)

i like that it's called 'troll a'

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, July 7, 2015 6:26 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

good place to set up a colony of noize dudes

, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 00:41 (ten years ago)

two weeks pass...
two weeks pass...

crane lifting a crane lifting a crane lifting a crane

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--IHGBEqWq--/1375638805181310248.gif

ledge, Sunday, 9 August 2015 21:07 (ten years ago)

Does this go here? "High Voltage Marx and Tesla Generators Research Facility":

https://img.rt.com/files/news/29/ad/00/00/tesla-coil-marx-generator.jpg

http://www.rt.com/news/170704-tesla-tower-lightning-russia/
http://www.rt.com/news/181748-tesla-marx-generator-lightning/

salsa shark, Tuesday, 11 August 2015 18:01 (ten years ago)

xp ha, I did think of that shortly after. Could do without the extra shopped panels though.

ledge, Tuesday, 11 August 2015 21:20 (ten years ago)

oh I only just noticed that, bah

Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Wednesday, 12 August 2015 09:28 (ten years ago)

two months pass...

http://i.imgur.com/UOXMc6X.gif

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 28 October 2015 18:04 (ten years ago)

one month passes...

https://giant.gfycat.com/BaggyCostlyDrongo.gif

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 10 December 2015 20:56 (ten years ago)

one month passes...

https://giant.gfycat.com/AdmirableHideousChafer.gif

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 28 January 2016 18:05 (ten years ago)

three months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-XlbUDPt7A

, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 13:02 (ten years ago)

reminds me of bucket's observation in Murphy that the rocking chair is the only thing that gets faster and faster and faster and then stops. tho more terrifying. something essential about it made me think 'oh god, life'.

Fizzles, Monday, 23 May 2016 10:36 (ten years ago)

three weeks pass...

http://i.imgur.com/hkPZ5a1.gif

, Thursday, 16 June 2016 03:37 (nine years ago)

http://media.gizmodo.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/loczr2lukuqnouxaxq0w.gif

(look carefully and you'll notice that some of these gears are turning in the same direction as their neighbours...)

koogs, Thursday, 16 June 2016 09:13 (nine years ago)

four weeks pass...

http://i.imgur.com/4MUVq4y.gif

, Thursday, 14 July 2016 13:11 (nine years ago)

three weeks pass...

*thumbs up*

, Tuesday, 9 August 2016 17:40 (nine years ago)

that picture is amazing

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 9 August 2016 17:51 (nine years ago)

two weeks pass...

http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/08/20/atomic-light-akademgorodok-laboratories-scientists/

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 28 August 2016 21:51 (nine years ago)

four months pass...

https://www.facebook.com/Machine1806/videos/398237297186905/?hc_ref=NEWSFEED

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 15 January 2017 16:24 (nine years ago)

Brutal. Why didn't they just cast it to that shape in the first place though?

brekekekexit collapse collapse (ledge), Sunday, 15 January 2017 17:16 (nine years ago)

"Chinese steelworkers hate this one neat trick!"

brekekekexit collapse collapse (ledge), Sunday, 15 January 2017 18:04 (nine years ago)

yeah, like the anchor chain upthread it's a striking combination of sublime machinery and a surprising dependence on manual labour

lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 15 January 2017 18:29 (nine years ago)

Why didn't they just cast it to that shape in the first place though?

Two thoughts. China spent decades as a low-capitalized nation with massive amounts of manpower and a full employment policy, and there are probably still many remnants of that economy left in the hinterlands. It is also possible that the tensile strength of the metal (steel?) may be much higher when it is beaten into shape rather than cast. But I am not a metallurgist.

a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Sunday, 15 January 2017 19:09 (nine years ago)

...

, Sunday, 15 January 2017 23:18 (nine years ago)

ime forgings normally have less surface porosity, finer grain structure, higher tensile strength, better fatigue life/strength, and greater ductility than castings

Roberto Spiralli, Sunday, 15 January 2017 23:30 (nine years ago)


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