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A photograph of the Octarm Continuum Manipulator, a flexible tentacle using McKibben air muscles and inspired by natural muscular hydrostats, particularly, as the name implies, the arms of the octopus. It is in three segments, each thinner than the preceding one; it is sheathed in a shiny black fabric. It is gripping a white cylinder.
the Beauty Micrometer, a cosmetological device from the 1930s intended to identify how best to apply makeup
a cutaway diagram of a nuclear thermal rocket with control drums highlighted in blue and green.
A 3-D map of the hunting paths of 20 humboldt squids in a pack. They form a bundle of rough rectilinear helices
A snippet of US army report ADB148401 reading '...battlefield. "<9> The attack helicopter's tremendous maneuver potential, throughout all four dimensions on the battlefield (depth, width, height, and time) place it in a...'
A photo of a passage in Chapter 8 of Book 3 of Whewell's History of the Inductive Sciences. It reads: " . . . many succeeding geologists. The forces which have raised into the clouds the vast chains of the Pyrenees, the Alps, the Ande,s must have been, it was deemed, something very different from any agencies now operating."
a photo of burt rutan staring into the camera with piercing blue eyes. he's absolutely rocking out salt and pepper sideburns and a leather jacket
A tree kangaroo standing, holding a stalk of celery. The joey's face is poking out of the pouch
A racecar hummingbird ghost on an orange background. The shape of a sleep airplane, wings sweeping forward, is visible behind tumbling swatches of red and blue smoke, smearing together into a chaotic fuzz at the tail
A 3D model of a small cylindrical diorama/vignette depicting a tank, painted with black and white stripes, riding on large Archimedean screws, moving down a snowy slope, "peering" around a large dark gray monolith.
American sailors bring a film capsule from a Hexagon satellite on board via crane.
A string of floating radar corner reflectors, part of Project MOGUL's balloon train
USS Valley Forge launching a stratospheric balloon for Project Skyhook. It is traveling in perfect pace with the wind; both the balloon's fungal stalk and the carrier's smoke are perfectly vertical
a screenshot text excerpt. It reads "SNAF planners found that interceptor crews were quite dependent on the opinions of air controllers or FDOs, even in essence psychologically subordinate to them. So the . . . " from https://cimsec.org/kamikazes-the-legacy-of-soviet-naval-aviation-pt-2/
An advertisement from Argonne National Laboratory. Meterological diagrams, small text, over a hazy photograph of a pylon tower
a photograph of a male mallard. he is staring knowingly into the camera with a penetrating and disquieting gaze. is his beak curled in a slight smile? we may never learn
A "rocket-" imagine a bright yellow deep sea animal with a conical birdcage at each end, on a black field.
A minuteman transporter-erector. A long truck, with a large white container trailer attached; on the side of the container are the words U.S. AIR FORCE. It is sitting still on a patch of concrete in a field of short grass. Chevrons adorn the front of both the container and the cab.
Two helicopters facing each other in an empty field. They look like if you stapled two windmills, or perhaps many small wright flyers, to the top of a fossil airplane. They are beautiful. Their hollow flanks reveal fine organs. Their rotors- two coaxial, each with eight blades, configured as sets of four stacked one on top of the other- are cumbersome and laced together with fine wire.
A screenshot of the first page of a congressional seminar presentation. It reads: GENERAL JOHN L. PIOTROWSKI, USAF AAAS CONGRESSIONAL SEMINAR ON STRATEGIC DEFENSE AND ASAT WEAPONS WASHINGTON, D.C. 27 SEPTEMBER 1989 I WELCOME THIS OPPORTUNITY TO TALK TO YOU AND USE SOME CHARTS FOR ILLUSTRATION. I AM GOING TO TALK ABOUT ASAT FIRST, ANTISATELLITE WEAPONS. (the seal of the United States Space Command. It is somewhat faded) (a little down, and to the left) 19980302 075 - PRESENTATION TO - AAAS CONGRESSIONAL SEMINAR ON STRATEGIC DEFENSE AND ASAT WEAPONS 27 SEPTEMBER 1989 DTIC QUALITY INSPECTED (this is fading on the right end) PLEASE RETURN TO: SDI TECHNICAL INFORMATION CENTER BMDOTIC DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT A Approved for public release; Distribution Unlimited 42935
A collation of 13 side-profile photographs of pterosaur skulls, in various strange shapes.
the Power Shovel Marion 6360 ("The Captain") viewed from the back, in between two large mounds of debris. Its body is a block painted in white and blue, sheathed by gray girderwork, riding on an assembly of squat caterpillar tracks
a photograph of "Flip," Kings College's robotic plesiosaur model. It might be described as a miniature plesiosaur which had been judiciously sanded down and plated with stainless steel until it resembled in some way an esoteric kitchen utensil
A photograph of the Flying Octopus, rotors blurry with motion. The pilot can be seen hunched over in one of the girders.
A magazine cover depicting a Magnus effect balloon, seen from slightly below.
The space beneath the last flight of stairs. A smooth concrete floor. A laptop sits on the ground; text is visible on its screen
An M60 tank on a snowy mountain landscape. A figure in high-vis gear is sitting atop it.
An excerpt from an old NASA paper. It reads "The NASA space sciences program encompasses the total national effort to explore the solar system and beyond with unmanned instrumented spacecraft. There is nothing esoteric about it. It is an explo-" (screenshot cuts off)
Garinko-Go icebreaker, bright red against a plain of white, floating, ice.
A grainy black-and-white photo of a small, open-topped, ekranoplan, skimming low across a placid lake. "Rybnadzor" is written across its flank in cyrillic. The caption reads "Above: Poachers beware! ...or what? The SM-9 experimental WIG vehicle bore *Rybnadzor* (Fisheries Control Agency) titles. Too bad the agency still does not have fast craft of this kind in its inventory."
A stratigraphic column of the grand canyon. Visible at the bottom, appearing in cross-section like some kind of beautiful granitey shoggoth, is the Zoroaster Plutonic Complex
A screenshot of microsoft notepad. The text reads: "Yesterday, he had run out of wood; for quite some time, now, the ship's skin had more and more become very carefully lighter, carved away into whatsoever came to mind for Lester: lots of horses around the prow, mostly early drafts, sessile and slightly deformed- working from a reference was, of course, impossible- and it was really almost all of them because once he had mastered horses, he had moved on, so there was only one perfect horse, about three inches up from the very front of the gunwale, slightly larger than a man's hand, and somehow Lester had sliced away only the dead, still, wood and left only the horse, gleaming in the salt sun, prancing in place, proud and real, blood and foam pumping through its splintery veins." "We looked at that horse for days. Lester was busy on the very top of the mast."
Mostly dark, empty, sky. Fine white beams slice vertically along it. On the right, a small missile, dangling from an ephemeral balloon
Rows and rows of S-25 Berkut missiles, upright, facing the sky. the sky is grey and the missiles are grey.
A sheet of various decals, of the sort which might be painted on a tank, or perhaps another species of armored vehicle
black-and-white photograph of a destroyer. "05" in white on the bow. Two two-barreled turrets are visible elevated on the front deck. Skeletal radars jut into the sky.
a plume moth in flight, feathery wings spread wide
a headline: "Bugging the Northwest: The T-moth's bizarre shape is only one of its unique traits"
Assembly ship "Spotted Ass Ape," nose painted with white polka-dots and a toothy face
Assembly ship "You Cawn't Miss It," painted with an all-over checkerboard pattern
A pair of old switches. Scrawled above them are the words LEAVE ON
A long, bare, concrete hallway. Two pipes, pale and fat, disappear down its length
a block of text. it reads "Issa was right; she needed rest. There was a small dent in her shell, on the left side, only barely visible but it hurt, it hurt, and she was only lucky that the killing claw had not punctured her. Her mind drifted in the pain and the warm, and along her hard skin ran stray thoughts of the cold outside, here striding back towards the rib in triumph and Issa at her side, there limp and loose, shrouded in her own viscera, invisible in a foul cloud of her spilt life. Clonia shifted. Felt the pain like a hot stone beneath her skin, settled back against the soft wall. Almost like meat to her famished mind, and something in her found much mirth in the idea of butchering and slicing and gulping down the walls of their absent host's castle. "
a tank on a black field, viewed from above. it lacks any textures
A metal flower in sand in one of those funny tiny vodka bottles. 8 white petals, upturned, slightly concave.
A spaceship shaped like an elongated pyramid with a triangular base, painted blhe and beige with white and red stripes. It stands on a black base, against a white background.
"the ship bends and twists when she's been hit, because they built the ship to flex under stress so that the hits wouldn't snap it. when the lances punch through the armor the coolant fluid gushes out, and it's red because they dyed it red so that we can see the leak more easily. sometimes we hear screams from the diagnostic panels, and sometimes people say she instead of it, but they have a because for those too."
two youtube videos in a playlist. the first is high-frequency ultrasonic noise and the second is a collection of coyote sounds.
former oiler USS Patoka modified to be a mobile airship support platform, carrying everything an airship would need, including a supply of hydrogen via onboard generator. A US Navy zeppelin is docked to a short docking tower near the prow.
B&W picture of what i think is a semirigid blimp leaving its hanger
photograph of Lebaudy Frères aerostat "Patrie"
a blender render of a long coilgun, enclosed in a web of thin pylons and cables.
excerpt from Stites' "Revolutionary Dreams" "Conversely, they were not written for N.E.P. men, . . . "
Excerpt from Chapter 1 of Stites' "Revolutionary Dreams" "That aim was to bestow order and welfare upon an unwilling population, to dress them, schedule them, dragoon them, use them, and sometimes even to reify them into human toys for the enlightened amusement of the toymakers."
dog stuffed animal wearing a replication of a soviet pressure suit made for testing potential space dogs in high altitude flights
A screenshot of 2 songs from Omega Red Star - From Hungary 1. Kely Fel (Wake Up) 2. Azt Mondta Af Anyukam (Mamma Said)
cutaway illustration of the DSH26. A) MPLM and node internal structure
three diagrams from Hughes and Girrier's "Fleet Tactics and Naval Operations, Third Edition," depicting various attack patterns available to missile combatants
an anteater (of the tamandua variety)
Something in the style of maybe a magazine page, reading "Massena's Fist: "Knee Snapper Sally," subtitled "Cronian barons field novel improvised combat vehicles." The right side of the page is dominated by a grainy black-and-white image of one such vehicle