Flint Dille

Transmediologist, World builder, ARGonaut, Gameifyer, Narrative alchemist and sometimes simply writer and game designer…

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Morning Of Mourning https://t.co/8W1eD0er0B

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Buck Rogers Versus the Shy Starrs from Uranus Part 2: Fortuna Smiles on Nemo https://t.co/GusZoaqPXo

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https://t.co/7pYuXbVaGi

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This guy has grown up and is getting formidable:

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This makes it look easy.

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@RCPolitics This is excellent

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Elon Musk at the World Economic Forum: AI, Robots, Energy, Mars, and the Automation Revolution https://t.co/bjHxdk65A1

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@NotCool82 @MikeSibertRadio Yeah, watch the movie just simply for the colors and the flow of the colors. Nelson did brilliant work.

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@RedEagleUpdates Yes.

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@RedLineReportt @RedEagleUpdates Yes

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The first of today's Pink Floyd anniversaries is the 1981 release, A Collection Of Great Dance Songs. The sarcastic title is matched by the cover, with dancers restrained by ropes. Due to licensing issues, the version of Money on the album wasn't the original. David Gilmour completely re-recorded it, playing most of the instruments himself (with Dick Parry recreating his sax parts) and co-produced it with James Guthrie. It also contains alternative mixes of Shine On You Crazy Diamond and Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2.

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@MuseumCommodore Oh yeah. I remember that. When people lost in our weekly risk game they got sent to the 'Planet of Zoom'. I spent a lot of time there.

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Buck Rogers and Planet of Zoom TV Commerical
Commodore 64 / Atari

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[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

Archimedes of Syracuse (287-212 BC) was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor and astronomer. Archimedes is generally considered to be greatest mathematician and inventor of antiquity and one of greatest of all time.

Claw of Archimedes was an ancient weapon devised by Archimedes to defend seaward portion of Syracuse's city wall against amphibious assault. Also known as "the ship shaker", claw consisted of a crane-like arm from which large metal grappling hook was suspended. When the claw was dropped on to an attacking ship arm would swing upwards. Claw of Archimedes was able to lift attacking ships partly out of the water, then either cause ship to capsize or suddenly drop it.

These machines featured prominently during 2nd Punic War in 214 BC, when Roman Republic attacked Syracuse with a fleet of at least 120 Quinqueremes under Marcus Claudius Marcellus. When the Roman fleet approached the city walls under cover of darkness, machines were deployed, sinking many ships and throwing the attack into confusion. Historians such as Polybius and Livy attributed heavy Roman losses to these machines, together with catapults, mechanical devices used to throw a projectile a great distance, also devised by Archimedes.

From Plutarch (Greek, 45-120 AD) Parallel Lives: Marcellus -

"When Archimedes began to ply his engines, he at once shot against the land forces all sorts of missile weapons, and immense masses of stone that came down with incredible noise and violence; against which no man could stand; for they knocked down those upon whom they fell in heaps, breaking all their ranks and files.  In the meantime huge poles thrust out from the walls over the ships sunk some by the great weights which they let down from on high upon them; others they lifted up into the air by an iron hand or beak like a crane's beak and, when they had drawn them up by the prow, and set them on end upon the poop, they plunged them to the bottom of the sea, with great destruction of the soldiers that were aboard them. A ship was frequently lifted up to a great height in air (a dreadful thing to behold), and was rolled to and fro and kept swinging, until mariners were all thrown out, when at length it was dashed against the rocks, or let fall. Marcellus, doubtful what counsel to pursue, drew off his ships to a safer distance, and sounded a retreat to his forces on land. They then took a resolution of coming up under the walls, if it were possible, in night . . . instantly a shower of darts and other missile weapons was again cast upon them. And when stones came tumbling down perpendicularly upon their heads, and, as it were, the whole wall shot out arrows at them, they retired.  And now, again, as they were going off, arrows and darts of a longer range inflicted a great slaughter among them, and their ships were driven one against another; while they themselves were not able to retaliate in any way. For Archimedes had provided and fixed most of his engines immediately under the wall; whence Romans, seeing that indefinite mischief overwhelmed them from no visible means, began to think they were fighting with gods." 

"Such terror had seized upon Romans, that, if they did but see a little rope or a piece of wood from wall, instantly crying out, that there it was again, Archimedes was about to let fly some engine at them, they turned their backs and fled, Marcellus desisted from conflicts and assaults, putting all his hope in a long siege."

The plausibility of this invention was tested in 1999 by BBC in their Secrets of the Ancients and then again in early 2005 by Discovery Channel in their television show Superweapons of the Ancient World by bringing together a group of engineers to try to conceive of, design and implement a design that was realistic given what we know about Archimedes. Within seven days they were able to test their creation. They did indeed succeed in tipping a model of a Roman ship over so that it would sink.

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@ElephantSignal Yes. And run for Gov

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@RightPulseNewss Well, the guy did direct Spinal Tap, so he's good with comedy. Rob Reiner is a sad case. He had one of the best runs in the History of Hollywood. Then he got political. Sadly, Stephen King is heading down a similar road. And I've been a huge fan of both of them.