• drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Imagine paying for a weapon design only to end up with two incomplete designs and one being a stupid flying thing that will never work and a bunch of naked people pictures that are at least finished, but kind of useless because doctors continued to just poison people anyway

    He is one of my favorite historical figures, but he must have been absolutely infuriating to deal with.

  • ameancow@lemmy.world
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    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.”

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      That’s how ship cannons worked too, at the time. Powerful but heavy to move, slow to reload, not very accurate… having more of them was 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.

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      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…)

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    If only we could have gotten Da Vinci and the Hussites together in order to build a wooden mech covered in cannons.

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    6 days ago

    “Sorry I couldn’t work on your commission, I was busy trying to land a job with the Duke”

  • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca
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    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.