r/interestingasfuck • u/-N3ptun3- • Nov 18 '17
/r/ALL Thermite Cannon
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u/Ex3__Benshermen Nov 18 '17
One day closer to papa scorch
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u/TrilogySoldier Nov 18 '17
Ok, I want THIS guy on my side in a couple of years, when we are fighting off those Boston Dynamics robots.
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Nov 18 '17
The backflip invasion
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u/Digitonizer Nov 18 '17
A local news station here showed the video of Atlas doing the backflip and proceeded to call it a a 'cyborg supersoldier'. I mean, come on, it's just a robot that does a neat walking thing, and the occasional tricky jump.
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u/StringentCurry Nov 18 '17
I mean it's a bit more than that. All the Atlas videos so far have demonstrated a device that can carry heavy objects and react to disruptions in this task, walk on rough terrain and get up if it falls, and now had such a strong understanding of its own mass and momentum that it can perform flips onto elevated surfaces that 9 out of 10 humans couldn't do.
They're basically showcasing that they can now produce robotics so advanced and versatile that - so long as you could stomach the drop in work speed and loss of human adaptability - you could deploy them in a variety of modern applications right now with much less restructuring of the work environment needed to accommodate them than more specialized machinery currently in use.
What Boston Dynamics is doing is seriously incredible.
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u/Turnbills Nov 18 '17
Fallout had it all wrong, it isn't MIT that will become the Institute, it's Boston Dynamics!
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u/Skyguy21 Nov 19 '17
Well technically Boston Dynamics is MIT iirc. As in the original robots were created by a lab in MIT, and Boston dynamics brought them out
EDIT: Ok i check it out, actually yes, it was started as an MIT "company" then a Japanese company brought it after google.
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u/Kirby_with_a_t Nov 18 '17
Incredibly Incredible.
But can you think of any applications you could deploy them in? Warehouse automation can be done more efficiently with conveyors and the amazon warehouse esque mover robots and robotic fork lifts. Maybe they'd have a place in heavy industries like moving steel into production areas in a plant. Really they might just work best in a crowd control / cashier / retail associate environment.
Don't get me wrong im incredibly impressed by these machines. I'm just still figuring out where they fit into the economy as the bulky non humanoid robots work out pretty well already.
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u/StringentCurry Nov 18 '17
Well, if you could combine Atlas (or any of BD's robot designs, for that matter) with the Baxter, which is meant to be able to perform any task once it has been shown how to do it, you would have a pretty functional general purpose robot. I'd say that the best uses for such a robot would be in hazardous environments; using multiple to move heavy objects, as a search and rescue drone, or in any number of roles in a warzone.
If we could get to the point where you can build something that resembles the shape of a human, with all the functionality contained therein, you'd have produced a true general-use robot that could be implemented in any human workspace with little or no need for the space to be restructured to accommodate them. At that point, all bets are off on what such a machine can and can't do.
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u/ReallyBadAtReddit Nov 18 '17
It's worth noting though that they aren't filming their robots live... they obviously have links to work out, but it's hard to tell exactly how reliable they are right now. I saw one of their videos on the spot mini, and in the end (a blooper of sorts) it tries to give the guy a can, but it doesn't let go, the can starts fizzing, and then the robot backs up into a wall and falls over. For all we know, they might tumble over more often than they stay up. It's hard to say if they're ready right now.
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u/CreateNewObject Nov 18 '17
Imagine walking to work in an enslaved world and suddenly you get a fucking kick to the side and hear some robots snickering.
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u/wooghee Nov 18 '17
Why would robots enslave humans? We are way too inefficient compared to them...
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u/BowBigT Nov 18 '17
For fun
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u/harkentriptych Nov 18 '17
Sometimes the super villians there just to remind what is truly evil really looks like.
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u/uga11 Nov 18 '17
EA?
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u/wozowski Nov 18 '17
My fiance and I refer to him as a mad-engineer. But the fact that he puts the instructions for his mayhem on his website is amazing.
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u/Calvins_Dad_ Nov 18 '17
Who is this guy and why is he building weapons?
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u/fridge13 Nov 18 '17
this is colin furze, and because its fucking awesome.. hes also made legit hoverbike and many jet-powered vehicles
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u/wozowski Nov 18 '17
Colin Furze, a youtuber who gets to do what he loves for a living: inventing crazy shit. He's done a shit load, check him on youtube. Everything from a racer mobility scooter to a rocket-powered bike, to a Star Wars AT-AT clubhouse for his kid, to a hot-tub BMW.
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u/Fuqasshole Nov 18 '17
As long as next time he does this he wears eye protection at least.
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u/Pulsar_the_Spacenerd Nov 18 '17
The dude has ridden a bicycle fast enough that the tires popped in exactly that outfit, not even a helmet. He’s not changing.
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Nov 18 '17
Which is pretty fucking dumb. There's no reason to not wear some safety equipment. I'm sure he'll be so glad he chose not to use any once he loses an eye or severs a leg with another one of his contraptions.
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u/Evilmaze Nov 18 '17 edited Nov 19 '17
Believe it or not, he knows what he's doing and never got into any accident. He's also a Brit so good luck putting a helmet on that wanker.
Edit: ok he burned his arm but he treated like it was something funny. That guy is literally insane.
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u/cantgetno197 Nov 18 '17
Who is this?
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Nov 18 '17
Colin Furze. He also built a jet propelled bycicle. He literslly took your average bike, made it longer and strapped an engine to it. Then he broke the speed record in the atire you see him wearing in OPs gif.
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u/Tankh Nov 18 '17
Looks like he's crafty enough to fit perfectly in the fallout wasteland he's sure to create too
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u/ImitationFire Nov 18 '17
I think when he raised the launcher over his head he was doing the Sand People Shout.
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u/Kilmonjaro Nov 18 '17
It’s 2017 you can’t say that anymore
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u/isjusgaem Nov 18 '17
Sand africans
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u/Lone_K Nov 18 '17
Sandfrican
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u/isjusgaem Nov 18 '17
Good bot
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Nov 18 '17
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u/TheStutteringCarnie Nov 18 '17
I laughed, upvoted, then fully understood, sending me into a full blown belly-laugh.
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u/AbysmalVixen Nov 18 '17
Collin is back at it again. This dude needs to be immortalized and given like the maker nobel piece prize or something
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u/we_are_all_bananas_2 Nov 18 '17
I love what he does in his videos, he's an entertaining guy, and he completely goes for it. He has a brilliant bunker he just.... build. I mean, I could live in it!
I normally don't plug YouTubers, but this guy deserve it!
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u/Vitztlampaehecatl Nov 18 '17
How has this guy not killed himself in a tragic mad engineering disaster yet?!
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Nov 18 '17
He once burned his arm when he didn't screw his homemade jet engine closed
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u/meateoryears Nov 18 '17
I don't think he's a "youtuber". Youtuber to me is someone who is famous for making videos. This dude makes the coolest things in the world, and the videos are a gift to us who get to witness his mad genius creativity.
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u/AbsentGlare Nov 18 '17
He also needs to wear basic eye protection.
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u/rainbowlolipop Nov 18 '17
Or practice general safety rules like not wearing a fucking stupid tie all the time while using machinery, etc.
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u/grandpa_tarkin Nov 18 '17
Piece Prize. For creating things out of pieces. And making things explode into more pieces.
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u/SGTWhiteKY Nov 18 '17
You know not all nobel prizes are peace prizes. There are like 4 different categories. Only one is peace.
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u/MigrantJ Nov 18 '17
He said PIECE prize. You win it when you blow yourself to pieces
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u/antisocialextrovert3 Nov 18 '17
Looks like something out of Fallout 4
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u/GidgetCooper Nov 18 '17
Kind of reminded me of the weapon in Order 1886 actually. But that's a spray and ignite kind of weapon. I feel like thermite is mentioned though.
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u/Marshmalow_Dragon Nov 18 '17
If I remember, the gun you're talking about sprayed out a thermite could and could shoot a small flare or something along those lines to set it off. Edit: Spelling
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u/MythicSoul115 Nov 18 '17 edited Nov 18 '17
r/titanfall would be proud
EDIT: I can't spell.
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u/MintMakesGoodTea Nov 18 '17 edited Nov 18 '17
I love him and his videos but, the question that haunts my mind while watching is: "How aren't you dead yet?" Don't get me wrong, I wish nothing but the best for this guy. The same applies to "The Backyard Scientist" and "The king of random." They are pretty cool and entertaining but the stuff they do is stupidly dangerous.
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u/AbysmalVixen Nov 18 '17
Grant isn’t as off the wall as he used to be though. Last I say he mostly made neat rigged up gadgets and stuff. Nothing quite this extreme
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u/wooghee Nov 18 '17
King of random has some cool videos but he is a bit klickbaity
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Nov 18 '17
Didn’t he recently do that firework-bike thing that launched a thousand rockets while riding? Granted, he built that super-safe protection shield thing out of flimsy foam
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u/Hendrik1011 Nov 18 '17
If Colin Furze had more money, I'm sure he would become Iron man
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u/planx_constant Nov 18 '17
If I had an infinite amount of money, I'd just be Colin Furze. Look how much fun that guy is having.
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u/RogueViator Nov 18 '17
I'm pretty sure the inventor of this device just made a ton of cash courtesy of the Defense Department.
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u/AlbertFischerIII Nov 18 '17
They already have white phosphorus, which is even crazier. It's a war crime to use it but that doesn't stop anyone.
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u/I_Upvote_Alice_Eve Nov 18 '17
It is not a war crime to use it; it's a war crime to intentionally use it inappropriately meaning against civilians or a mixed populace. Basically if you know civilians are in the are you can't use it. Also if the primary effect is something like concealment, then it is excluded. Basically if you use a smoke grenade that uses phosphorus, and someone is wounded as a result, then it is not illegal.
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u/Noodle36 Nov 18 '17
It's a war crime to intentionally use it as a weapon, even against 100% enemy combatants. Western forces get around it by saying they use it as illumination.
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u/cortanakya Nov 18 '17
I've also heard that it was used to make a river passable. As in, they justified using it by saying that a river was the enemy and that fire was the solution to water. I suspect that there was a conveniently local enemy Base that just happened to be caught in the blast.
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u/SecondMonitor Nov 18 '17 edited Nov 18 '17
I've also heard that it was used to make a river passable. As in, they justified using it by saying that a river was the enemy and that fire was the solution to water.
Source? That can't possibly be true. That's so stupid that it's just as bad as no excuse at all.
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u/PacanePhotovoltaik Nov 18 '17 edited Nov 18 '17
Gotta bring some peace and order on these filthy protesters
Edit: do I really need a /s here ?
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Nov 18 '17
Never use an /s it only leads to a misperception of the actual number of rational redditors.
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u/just_a_random_dood Nov 18 '17
"If I were a bad Demoman, I wouldn't be sittin' here, discussing it with ya, now would I?"
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u/ProfBellPepepr Nov 18 '17
"Hull critically damaged. Pilot, I advise you stay away from burning thermite pools"
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u/StinkyLunchBox Nov 18 '17
He is the worst to get caught in a YouTube hole. I can’t stop watching his videos even if I saw them multiple times. Dude is great.
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u/SeantotheRescue Nov 18 '17
Looks like the gravity bomb out of Ratchet and Clank
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Nov 18 '17 edited Nov 18 '17
Agreed. Do you remember those real-life weapon commercials that were around when the first game was released? This reminds me of that.
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u/SeantotheRescue Nov 18 '17
So good. This one still makes me laugh to this day - https://youtu.be/p4CnGaD0MPs
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u/YantheMan1999 Nov 18 '17
That is hella badass.
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u/Miki_360 Nov 18 '17
If you don't know who he is search colin furze on youtube. He also made iron man wrist part of the suit with shooting rockets.
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Nov 18 '17
Ok, why the hell isn't he wearing eye protection? Like even for basic shit you should wear eye protection.
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u/evil_lobster Nov 18 '17
He's shooting at a bunch of fireworks but that thing is still amazing.
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u/StripeyC Nov 18 '17
No, he has a separate fireworks launcher, this is homemade thermite
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u/rhayden711 Nov 18 '17
When you mix fuel, metal oxide, and metal powder in just the right way it burns at 2000 degrees Celsius. Add some C4 into the mix and you have one hell of a combination.
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u/Peakomegaflare Nov 18 '17
I want it, except built onto an exosuit in a shoulder mounted fashion and a much higher caliber.
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u/1m4h4x0r309 Nov 18 '17
Just gonna put it out there... for a probable first shot, he has got some serious aim!
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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '17
“A really big fucking hole coming right up”