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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.""

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  1. After 500 years... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Da Vinci's cock has been reconstructed! With the use of DNA sampling aided by recent advances in stem cell research, scientists have managed to grow Da Vinci's cock in a petri dish. Lead scientist, Richard Johnson stated, "People thought we were just dicking around, but we have reached the climax of our research in producing the one thing Da Vinci didn't invent." When asked if it was an easy task to reconstruct, Johnson was indignant and shot off, "No, it was very hard."

  2. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers ate my balls! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    agh! those damn fruity-colored bastards!

  3. The funny thing is though.. by msim · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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 ;-).

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  4. Clockwork powered car Information from Google by aardwolf204 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    So I was going to post some info on Leonard Da Vinci's clockwork powered car since I no nothing about it and I've killed my karma on some dumb posts so I search google and come up with nothing, however I find it interesting that the first link is google directing me to this story on slashdot saying it was posted just 5 minutes ago. When did Google start linking to /. like this? Sounds cool though.

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  5. Crap! by Yoda2 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The bigger news here is that the Wired article also contained my obituary!

  6. Have to be the one... by drsmack1 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In other news; SCO has filed another infringment lawsuit....

  7. What the crap? by boarder8925 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    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.
    Um, how does "several other sources" translate into only two other sources?

    According to Dictionary.com, several means "being of a number more than two or three but not many."
  8. Re:fascinating by hackus · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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

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  9. Really: fascinating by Slowleggs · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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? :)

  10. Re:fascinating by killjoe · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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.

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  11. Re:fascinating by killjoe · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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".

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