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He would have loved battle bots.
It’s a barnacle
It’s a panzer.
Yeah, he designed these things for Sforza because designing war machines pays money.
Thank you now I understand I thought he liked slaughter?
Its possible he did. People had different sensibilities 500 years ago.
If only we could have gotten Da Vinci and the Hussites together in order to build a wooden mech covered in cannons.
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
Maybe you should help her with the baby so she can game.
Nah if i hold the baby while she games it’s to easy for her, she needs an extra difficulty level /s
I was holding the baby. Probably could have worded it better
I like how this ended out, though… Well played
That’s acrobatic level of gaming but I guess ass ass creed these days plays probably like a Toys R us
It is usually what she’s doing when i get home from work. As for the decline of AC this is a 360 one she’s playing, I beleive brotherhood.
Still very average games in my opinion but she loves them and I enjoy watching her play as she rolls into the missions saying “ohh I remember this, I hated this”
Juggling the boy while gaming until I have a shower and take him so she can rest.
ahhh sheet hahaha
Probably never see it again either
I’ve seen this thing at least 500 times in my life, not sure how folks haven’t seen it as many times. Did you all not spend hours pouring over Da Vinci’s drawings as a kid? As a teen? As a young adult? Yesterday?
Nah, but i did buy a cool book you might be interested in if you like that kind of thing.
The books all illustrated on different survival things.
I bought it and inscribed it for my son hoping he learns from it but never needs it.
I’m sorry for your loss
My loss?
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… more of them would give you 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.
They used muzzle loaded cannons at his time, so it makes sense. It’s not only for direction, but for faster rate of fire.
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…)
Dude definitely needed adderall
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.
But Davinci was Florentine…
Your mom’s a Florentine.
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.
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.
Newcomen engine Thomas Newcomen
Taqi ad-Din was like: What else could it spin than a spit:
Mmmm kebab
So what is this thing when?
It rotates meat so it cooks evenly on all sides.
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?
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…
Surpass metal gear?
Wood gear
Solid
Second floor basement?!?!!
Leonardo’s was literally just running a copy of Besiege 24/7 in his brain, wasn’t he?
he invented an airplane that did not work
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!
Was genuinely fun to drive and use on Assassin’s Creed.
It must have been one of the Ezio ones, right? I do not recall this machine from the games.
Edit: Brotherhood apparently. I still do not recall, so maybe they were optional and I missed out or it just has been too long. Maybe it’s time for a replay.
