| Author | Message | ||
     Wardog3187 |
when you build could stuff like this!  Check out this - http://www.vintageprojects.com/site-map.html and this - http://www.thelitterbox.org/librum/i-vfp/ I think that I will build this -  (Message edited by wardog3187 on August 13, 2005) | ||
| Djkaplan |
This was my Holy Grail as a child...  One day, one day... | ||
| Fullpower |
hey I want one.. I have almost 4 dollars saved up, want to go in partners on the sub? I get to drive on even days you drive on odd days. PM me. | ||
| Tramp |
mine too! where did you find those shots?!??!!? Thanks you for that! How about the hovercraft that used a vacuum-cleaner motor? ...or any of those cool contraptions whose ads in the back of "Boys Life" promised us little fellers an exciting new world of x-ray specs and dynamic tension.... | ||
| Wardog3187 |
You should go to the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry and check out the "Robots Like Us" exhibit - http://www.msichicago.org/exhibit/robots/index.html The "Body Worlds" exhibit was well worth it - http://www.msichicago.org/bodyworlds/index.html | ||
| 1313 |
I was fortunate enough to be working in Berlin and had planned a weekend trip to Munich (München to the locals) for the IMOT show and a custom Harley show. On Saturday a.m. I saw an article about the 'Body Worlds' exhibit on the front page of the local paper and with the help of the hotel staff found out that I would be able to catch it before I had to head back to Berlin on Sunday. To me the macabre and morbid is usually very enlightening, but I couldn't help but think that the human remains I was looking at could have been my uncle or other relative. I am disappointed that they didn't allow photography, as there is some really cool stuff on display. Oh yeah, the reason the exhibit was on the front page of the local papers was because there was some kind of controversy about the horse in one of the displays that had undergone plastination. Seems that the locals didn't take too kindly about the deceased horse being displayed in such a manner. When I got to the show the horse was all wrapped up with paper. Unexpectedly being able to catch the exhibit made the trip that much more enjoyable. Riding on the Autobahn back to Berlin in the Mercedes rental car that would only do 216 km/hr allowed the 600 km distance between Munich and Berlin to be completed in only 5 hours. 1313 | ||
| Tramp |
munchen is an excellent town, and berlin, especially during the love parade, is an enormous party. you're not alone, as a german american, in wondering that you could be looking at remains of relatives when you gaze upon that exhibit. that feeling is common to many jews when they see german lampshades and candles. you want to see a thought-provoking exhibit, hit dachau. hey, i'm a gentile of some german origin and it made me look at everything differently. europe holds many answers to our latter-day collective american consciousness. strangely, the best and the worst human beings i've met were in germany. i give the people there credit, however, for not attempting to outrun, for better or worse, their past. (Message edited by tramp on August 14, 2005) |
