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Wild, I watched my wife playing assassins creed last night while holding the baby, this machine was in the game
Never seen it before and now twice in a row.
Damn Baader-Meinhof
And if they listen to him then we could have started air travel early and had a moon base by now.
No don’t do this. You’re giving gaijin ideas.
It’ll be the next tank on Warthunder, under the Italian tech tree.
Might make a fun Christmas event
The machina magnifica!
Leonardo’s was literally just running a copy of Besiege 24/7 in his brain, wasn’t he?
Given a translator, can you even imagine Leonardo da Vinci and Hideo Kojima in a room together?
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.)
Yes and me either
A weapon to surpass Metal Gear…
Wood gear
Solid
Second floor basement?!?!!
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.
Hero (a dude) of Alexandria made some steam powered stuff around the dawn of the 1st millenia, and some roman dude put steam powered doors in his house, I think some temples had steam powered doors to.
The emporer, I think Augustus the first one, had it presented to him to develop it further and he decided he didn’t want to take jobs from the plebs or whatever, had to keep the beggars busy with something. So they dropped it.
Hundreds of years prior, a couple of hundred maybe, Archimedes theorized a steam cannon.
Taqi ad-Din was like: What else could it spin than a spit:
So what is this thing when?
It rotates meat so it cooks evenly on all sides.
The principle of steam power was known, but the ancient steam engines could only move stuff against little resistance once, while releasing all steam.
It wasn’t possible to build a steam engine that could build up pressure and do actual work, until metallurgy and precision machining were developed.I think the first major application for a steam engine that could do real work was way into the 18th century or something, with the steam pump, to access coal seams deeper in the ground by pumping water out. Not sure entirely though.
Was genuinely fun to drive and use on Assassin’s Creed.
“Sorry I couldn’t work on your commission, I was busy trying to land a job with the Duke”
Stupid is what it is, there isn’t enough room for ammo or to physically reload all those cannons. what a rube
Not to mention theres no way like 5-6 dudes could maneuver that around when it’s got 40 cannons on it, never mind the ammo too
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.
