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My 16 y.o. son brought this ~18 min. video (YouTube) to my attention this evening, thinking that I would find it interesting. I most definitely did! The construction of the Lightsaber involved some old and new school machining methods, elaborate design, problem solving and intricate and masterful construction. The video was published on YouTube on 10/8/20 and there are now almost 15.7M views! There are a couple of shout-outs to their sponsor's, and one 'commercial' for an smart-phone based fantasy game. Well worth the price of admission imo. When I watched it the follow-up video queued up right after it. Enjoy! Rob __________ "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal labotomy." | ||
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Aller Anfang ist schwer |
The group that did that one has quite a few neat videos. They've done rail and coil guns also. | |||
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Looks like a glorified blowtorch to me. | |||
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Interesting video... Just keep them from the chipmunks...they will burn the forests down  Link to original video: https://youtu.be/fu-jyoBGsUU ******************************************************** "we've gotta roll with the punches, learn to play all of our hunches Making the best of what ever comes our way Forget that blind ambition and learn to trust your intuition Plowing straight ahead come what may And theres a cowboy in the jungle" Jimmy Buffet | |||
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Kinda cool but way to dangerous for much usefulness. If you guys want to see some cool technology that’s useful look up LEP (not LED) flashlights. They look like light sabers because the beam is so tight. They will also light something up thousands of yards away. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i0tEax6SMtc&t=519s | |||
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Much point missing there is in this thread. ► 6.4/93.6 “It is a habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire.” — Thucydides; quoted by Victor Davis Hanson, The Second World Wars | |||
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The Wright brothers didn't start by building an SR71. The industrial applications would far exceed 40 year old's acting like 8 year olds.  $.02 worth. Boss A real life Sisyphus... "It's not the critic who counts..." TR Exodus 23.2: Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong... Despite some people's claims to the contrary, 5 lbs. is actually different than 12 lbs. It's never simple/easy. | |||
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