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526 Years On, Da Vinci's Clockwork Car Constructed
SimianOverlord writes "The Guardian (and several other news outlets) report on the attempt by Professor Paulo Galluci and his team to build a working model of Leonard Da Vinci's clockwork powered car, designed in 1478. Previous attempts have been made to create the vehicle, but they failed to work properly. This is thought to be due to a misunderstanding of the original design, which is corrected in the new model. Apart from the 1/3 scale replica, the team have also made a full size model but have not dared to test it. Professor Galluzzi explained "It is a very powerful machine. It could run into something and do serious damage.""
I saw this in the news a few hours ago.
;-).
But unfortunately i had to get back to work so didn't get to submit it in..
Then again getting first post and modded +5 funny on something i submitted would be a bit egotistical
Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know when your gonna get food poisoning.
According to Dictionary.com, several means "being of a number more than two or three but not many."
Keep your eyes to the sky.
Your both wrong.
The four corners of the earth are a reference to the creation of our solar system, and placing the path of the sun in the sky.
The corners in Genesis represent the four cardinal points of the earth with respect to the calendar.
Only the "Gods" know the secrets of the calendar and in this case, especially when God is talk to Job in the Book of Job, it means the four seasons.
Therefore the four corners of the earth are: the spring and summer equinoxes and the winter and summer solstice.
You are fools and you are bigger fools to not realize many of the religions today direct quote scientific facts whe discussing mysteries of existence.
Christ said while he was here that you shall see, but not understand, read but not comprehend.
God brings this point up to Job for example in the Christian/Hebrew religion because the four corners of the earth ARE IMPORTANT.
They represent the basis of a calendar and modern civilization is impossible without the basic means of measuring time.
Fools, idiots.
-Hack
Got Geometrodynamics? Awe, too hard to figure out? Too bad.
Hackus said, 'Christ said while he was here that you shall see, but not understand, read but not comprehend.'
:)
What? me no understand!
Back to beeing serious: What do you think Jesus would say about you calling people fools and idiots?
Facinating interpretation. BUt you know that's all that it is. Just interpretation. Other people may choose to interpret those passages some other way.
Of course most people believe that bible is the word of god. It's not up to interpretation.
evil is as evil does
What's even worse is when people fall back on utter superstition when science does not have an answer.
Instead of saying "we don't know" or "we have no way of observing or measuring that" people say "It's this way because this two thousand year old books says so".
evil is as evil does