sublime machinery

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“Very quickly, it became clear that nobody wanted to go back at night because FLIP was not only more comfortable, but it provided a good platform for working 24 hours a day,” says Pinkel. “When things were working, you didn’t want to leave your experiment to go back to a mothership.”

I'm picturing the shuttle ship showing up at the end of the day when they first started the project and one of the scientists sadly mumbling "but I like it here!"

love that this account has got v salty since the election

Automated polymer binding foam agent sprayers reduce coal dust coming off of coal transport trains. Luckily, coal will soon be replaced by cleaner, more modern, and more efficient sources of energy that create more jobs. pic.twitter.com/P9t6biEDD6

— Machine Pix (@MachinePix) November 20, 2017

haha literally just seen that, there was a retweeted response too

lol kbye https://t.co/S6XeRDUwLi

— Machine Pix (@MachinePix) November 20, 2017

bah doesn't show the reply tweet. Here it is

This guy is in total meltdown. WAS an interesting account. Going off on politics? Who cares? Bye guy.https://t.co/HxClhwbx0y

— Mike Chillit (@MikeChillit) November 20, 2017

mike failing to live up to his name

^^ Dude has made half a dozen tweets about missing Malaysian Air flight in the past hour.

Mr. Chillit, not Mr. Spiralli.

i have also narrowed down possible location of the wreckage to somewhere in the pacific, i just don't like to brag about it on the timeline

Just awesome pic.twitter.com/WFD6xlxX9d

— The Invisible Man (@invisibleman_17) March 5, 2018

isambard kingdom brunel fever dream

https://i.imgur.com/PUOMoKk.gif

Decades worth of layered paint was peeled, chiseled, and sawed off of Tufts' iconic cannon, which students have used as a kind of billboard since 1977, via @BostonGlobe https://t.co/jG5hlz7Iln pic.twitter.com/E5yF873XaJ

— Tufts University (@TuftsUniversity) September 8, 2018

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bm3nzIAhxeM/?taken-by=otbp_cookiecutters

Love that. "Damn that sound is so satisfying" otm

a couple more here - https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2018/09/cookie-cutters/

50Hzと60Hzの違い． pic.twitter.com/9HkISxT7CZ

— デッドセクション (@ACDCSection) October 3, 2018

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DqJMpq6W4AAB9BH.jpg

https://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Technic-Bucket-Excavator-Construction/dp/B01CU9X8AC/

wau

It’s this mechanical scale model of a three-ring circus, currently on display at Rosebery’s auction house in West Norwood. @roseberysltd pic.twitter.com/HsW47M1YSZ

— Lev Parikian (@LevParikian) November 17, 2018

to continue on a (lol) micro scale, this model of a circus is quite mesmerising tbh!

Breaking up is hard to do. Manitoba uses these 20,000 kg Amphibex machines to break up channels in the frozen river and speed up spring thaw. pic.twitter.com/eZhorWMFlL

— CBC Manitoba (@CBCManitoba) March 12, 2019

I don’t want to overexcite you too much... but here’s an exclusive shot I just took of the settings available on the back of a traffic light. pic.twitter.com/M1bdGxgDIv

— Will Freeman (@spadgy_OTA) April 12, 2019

will this work?

Interesting lock pic.twitter.com/TzfDUfOqcN

— Universal Curiosity (@UniverCurious) December 27, 2019

don't see why not, just an overly complicated latch isn't it?

I would think thought that excessive force would damage the ring?

(I meant the magical auto linking of the tweet)

lol

Symphonie mécanique (1955) by Jean Mitry, with soundtrack by Pierre Boulez:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltWMF-YA5Mc

PENETRATION pic.twitter.com/22gWE5sU85

— kissmemore (@snoomr) May 21, 2021

Marbles are made on a marble run?! https://t.co/oBySHoNRky pic.twitter.com/jYIRzhUmNm

— Andy Baio (@waxpancake) March 14, 2022

I bet half of those steps aren't even necessary... it just looks cool.

"Restless", a mechanical sculpture by Tobias Bradford. pic.twitter.com/sDkJVwbaL1

— MachinePix (@MachinePix) January 17, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF9Eo73o9-k