Slightly modified doohickey
Well that’s downright demonic
You might even say it’s the core of demon…onic s-stuff
fuck
You tried, that’s what matters ❤️
F for effort <3
Looks pretty rad to me
Quite hardcore
I don’t get it
It’s the demon core.
TLDR: there was an “experiment” that involved using a screwdriver to hold the top half of the cover to get the core as close to critical as possible. One time the screwdriver slipped and the top fell releasing a huge amount of radiation in a very short amount of time.
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No explosion, just radiation and heat. Everyone nearby is dead, just not instantly.
At that point I’m just picking it up and holding it against the back of my cranium, no point in prolonging it
There are few things more terrifying than this concept… To be alive, healthy, and also dead in just a day or two…
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I was just intuiting the answer based on watching a bunch of educational videos, I am not qualified to do the math on this lol.
The closer the faster, days to weeks if you’re getting the full dose, months if you’re unlucky enough to get prolonged medical treatment
Further away, you might get away with losing your hair and developing cancer
Although I’m a big fan of a good old fashioned killdozer.
Ah, a killamajig.
a killamajig.
Nice word you have there. Would be a shame if someone stole it
“I took your code.”
“It’s not my code.”
sounds like something a gobbo would say. love it!
Is that a model rocket with knives attached?
Is that from backyard scientist?
Edit: yup, he made it
It does look very familiar
100%
I’ll allow it
the username too?
Yes that’s a TE3 with rubber tires. I will not be taking questions
Fuck me but I have questions though
My guess is that they can kind of steer it by driving only the right or left side wheels. It’s diesel electric so they could individually control each wheel motor.
Oh no they tried to put a 12 axle all wheel drive on it. It failed spectacularly.
XF-85 Goblin
Me 163 Komet
Ah the one that melted it’s pilot!
Oh yes, the Goblin is an excellent doohickey
I made this in KSP.
Rocket wrench.
… what am I looking at here?
I mean, yes, rocket wrench, but ???
Have you ever wanted to unscrew the fuze from a dudded aircraft bomb or artillery round, but you wanted to do it from far away?
This do that.
It’s 30% less cursed than the alternative tool.
Even clamping this onto the fuse sounds terrifying
9 out of 10 times it’s fine.
And the 10th time?
I wouldn’t worry about it.
I’ve never heard the 10th guy complain.
To shreds, you say?
And his wife?
That the neat part, then it isn’t your problem anymore…
A certain Martian is made very happy.
But if you’re far away and things go wrong, you won’t get that sweet release of death?
Seriously speaking though, that up close and personal version does look pretty fuckin cursed. I assume the call of the void is strong with EOD folks
The other version is a mechanical impact wrench. Activated by repeatedly yanking on the rope with full body strength. Both versions of the tool get fitted onto the fuze first like in the photo.
Yep, definitely cursed
One detail I love in the later Ender’s Game books involves teleporting a properly apocalyptic bomb into a very small room with the people who launched it. One of them pops it open and basically clicks Disarm > Are You Sure? > Yes.
I think it’s Ender himself who asks ‘… is that all?’ The guy’s like ‘Oh, yeah. We made it very easy to turn off.’
Imagine using this on your cock
Praying Mantis.
The prototype was even sillier:
Big Hobart’s Funnies energy
This season of battle bots is gonna be lit
Scorpion rocket launcher. (This one is legitimately neat. YES, the designers know what backblast is, and the design redirects it to the side and away from the shooter. NO, the launcher is not permanently attached to the M16, it fixes using the bayonet lug and goes on and off just as quickly.)
Huh, yeah that’s actually a neat design. The fact that the back blast now goes in two directions must make that fun (“fun”) to use; at least with a regular shoulder-launched recoilless anything, you only need to make sure there’s nothing or nobody behind you that you don’t mind turning into dogfood and regrets
It was developed as one of many proposed weapons to fill the U.S. Army’s desire for a squad level weapon that could be fired from inside a building, and packed more anti-armor punch than a 40mm.
Think about the time period and planners thinking about how to stop hypothetical hoards of BMPs rolling through West Germany.
This, along with other weapons, weren’t adopted because the Army pivoted doctrine away from focusing on new squad level weapons that could damage IFVs, to larger weapons like the TOW that could take out MBTs. The change in thinking traded lightweight and abundance organically to infantry on the move, for better performance per system.
I appreciate when a military’s response to ‘how do we solve this problem?’ becomes ‘that is not your problem.’ Ze Germans have a term for overloading functionality: eierlegende Wollmilchsau. Literally an egg-laying wool-milk-pig. Get your whole breakfast and a cozy blanket from one made-up animal. It is important to divide responsibility and avoid conflicting design goals.
Dudes fighting tanks is not a fair fight. You know what’s even less of a fair fight? Tanks fighting guided artillery.
Slightly nervous A400M noises
Not sure if this counts, but I feel like I’d be put on a list for watching this
I think you’d be short a few fingers if you tried firing a live round from that thing.
I was gonna point out that printed guns usually use proper metal barrels, but no, that fuckin thing sitting in the ejection port looks like a printed barrel. What the hell.
Even if it had a metal barrel, the forces from firing a bullet would probably tear the gun in half. The gun is made of plastic, and presumably, the hinge it uses to fold in half is also made of plastic.
That’s what Tor is for
RAW
The heck does this one do? “RAW” is generic enough that it turned out to be hard to search for, heh
“Rifleman’s Assault Weapon”.
Documentation is pretty spotty. The publicly available stuff tends to be corporate marketing material which is written by people who might not fully understand the technical aspects and/or are fudging or intentionally simplifying.
The overview is that it’s a rifle launched multi-mode munition for the M16.
“What does it do?”
“You’re looking at it.”
Gallipoli “drip rifle”.
Perhaps I’m just stupid, but is this designed to fire when it rains or something?
Iirc, they were left behind when troops moved out. The drip doohickey would make it fire after a while, giving the enemy the impression the trenches were still manned.
What was the purpose. Random shots so enemy thinks there’s always some one there. 6-10 shot magazine
This was to cover their retreat, they didn’t want the enemy to know they were leaving until they were well and truly gone.
RPG-76.
I had no idea the Shinzo Abe thing was a doohickey. I take it that’s not a regular bullet? How did it work?
I went digging and found this fairly detailed article on it https://armamentresearch.com/craft-produced-firearm-used-to-assassinate-shinzo-abe/
The dude had more doohickeys too! This picture of a cop holding one looks cyberpunk as fuck:
Looks like a lego guy at first.
The significant plumes of smoke generated when the weapon was fired indicate that it does not make use of commercial small arms ammunition propellant (‘smokeless powder’), and may instead use blackpowder or an alternative propellant. This makes the use of ‘separate-loading’ ammunition (i.e., propellant and projectile loaded separately into the weapon) more likely, as well as increasing the likelihood that the weapon was a muzzle-loading design—that is, loaded from the bore (‘front’ of the barrel), rather than the breech (‘rear’ of the barrel) of the firearm.
the weapon appears to use an electric firing mechanism. Images of the firearm show that an electrical wire passes through each endcap. …This high voltage creates a hot plasma arc between two conductive contacts that can be used to ignite flammable materials
Black powder, model rocket igniters, and ball bearings shoved into a piece of threaded pipe that’s capped on one end. You can build one of these in less than 30 minutes.
Hardest thing to get in Japan would probably be the black powder and it’s completely possible to manufacture that yourself. Everything else comes from the plumbing aisle of a DIY store and a model rocket shop.
So this is where Bungie gets their exotic weapon designs from for Destiny
Legend of Abcrius
Probably the most prominent electric firing mechanism for 3D-printed firearms has been developed by the user ‘@SuckBoyTony1’. This mechanism uses an 80 kV High Voltage Pulse Generator that converts 6–12 V (the electric potential typically provided by battery packs such as that seen with the assailant’s weapon) into 80 kV. This high voltage creates a hot plasma arc between two conductive contacts that can be used to ignite flammable materials
What’s with this level of overengineering? Just get the Piezo from a lighter and maybe that igniter powder from fireworks and good.
Firearms don’t have to be needlessly complicated, zeroed in. Ammo, propellant, firing cap/something to ignite propellant, metal tubes to direct the subsequent blast & ammo.
The guy basically rigged up a rudimentary cyberpunk blunderbuss.
