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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 DaVinci and Hideo Kojima in a room together?
A weapon to surpass Metal Gear…
Wood gear
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?
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.
“Sorry I couldn’t work on your commission, I was busy trying to land a job with the Duke”
Was genuinely fun to drive and use on Assassin’s Creed.
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.
