@machaus: yeah, because Fischl and Weiss invented the Rube Goldberg machine, that's why it's named after them.
just a small correction: the "hood mounted radiator" is actually the transmission cooler, it's just that the transmission coolant is being run through a radiator.
@Bentoboxx, My Tank is full of it: I provided the car. I'm Brett Doar, one of the builders and also a member of team Make: Way.
@adfrick: not every reset took close to an hour. a full reset would take about 40 minutes. if it was just on the top floor before it reached the tire, it might take only about 10 minutes, maybe less.
I love the yoplait trucks, that's a nice touch.
@GitEmSteveDave_It'sLikeATankTop:
well, yeah, that's true, but not all wood is the same, obviously. I have a feeling that propellers made out of 2x4, say, wouldn't be too good (I know hang gliders aren't, especially when you use garbage bags for the skin. ask me how I know).
@Travis Collins:
You may be entirely right, but I thought turning was partially accomplished by varying power to the tail rotor, so that it functions like a rudder. I'm not sure if that's just me speculating though.
@FooSchnickens:
it's perfectly acceptable to say "Fill the bill", "Fit the bill", or "Foot the bill" depending on what you're trying to say. what an odd thing to get your panties in a knot over.
@phaota: mach 2 mach 2, blah blah mach 2 mach mach mach!
:)
maybe it's real, maybe it's fake, but if you're shooting a scene where a guy punches out at mach 2, it doesn't follow that you have to actually get a guy to punch out at mach 2. All you need to do is make it look like he's punching out at mach 2, and I think I'm not alone in not really being able to look at footage of a plane flying against the sky and tell the difference between mach 2 and, say, 200mph.
@whoneedslight: They're not "Anti-Choicers", they're "Freedom Haters"
"First of all, it's not really made out of logs, it's made out of wood with log "cladding.""
not to split hairs, but isn't everything that's made out of wood also made out of logs?
I found a giant blue furry clawed arm once (I think it was from a lifesize model of that blue monster in that pixar movie). its core was styrofoam, and I hollowed it out and I could put my own arm in it. it was kind of smelly.
HIPerwall ftw
I'm disappointed to see that nothing by Tatjana Van Vark didn't make the list. Her Harmonium is definitely a contender
This might be interesting if the guy had used scrounged materials and assembled it in the elements- like an actual homeless person would have to do. Did he weld the steel tubing? It doesn't really demonstrate anything to use middle class resources to play at being homeless. I'm sure he spent a couple hundred bucks on this- why not just spend the money on a crappy car and gut it? then you'd at least have something that locked, and you wouldn't have to lug it around.
@danat86: THANKS FOR THE EMPHASIS.
I feel dirty after seeing that thing's rear end
I'll second all the nice things- it was a beast, really dominating at altamont almost to the finish
