Cool 3D printed machine gun
Offline by Michelle Starr
@riding_red 9 October 2014, 3:27 pm AEDT
Some people are passionate about coffee. Others about books, movies or games. There are, to paraphrase a certain timeless tale, as many passions as there are people. Dieter Michael Krone's passion is paper aeroplanes.
The Düsseldorf-based mechanical engineer is one of the world's leading authorities on the art of folding paper to make it glide. He has written a book on the subject. He has given a university lecture. He has an extensive website which lists the best materials for building paper aeroplanes; a history of paper aeroplanes; an essay on the physics of paper aeroplane flight; and, of course, a number of instruction sets for paper aeroplanes of his own design.
And, it turns out, he's also something of a mad genius, as detailed on his YouTube channel. There, you can find a paper aeroplane made out of a burger box, an exploration about whether a paper aeroplane can carry an egg, paper aeroplanes that can embed themselves into a dartboard, and this magnificent creation.
Dubbed the A6 v1.0, it's a 3D-printed thing of beauty. Like a printer, it holds a stock of paper which, one by one, it folds into a paper plane, then shoots into the air.
"A little tinkering from me that shows what you can do with 3D printers today. Most parts of this paper airplane machine gun had printed by fabberhouse.de (the rest of them are to buy via Internet or hardware store)," Krone wrote in the video description. "By the way, I use a cordless screwdriver from China for driving."
http://www.cnet.com/au/news/3d-printed-gun-folds-shoots-paper-planes/
My biggest question is whether Brian will actually read this, or instead launch into his patented tirade against guns without reading it, or finally some combination therein. Taking bets now, poll closes the instant he responds.
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Offline But she could follow the example of the Soviet era female snipers who let a bolt action Mosin Nagant do their killing.
lyudmila pavlichenko. 309 confirmed kills, 36 of them enemy snipers. walked into the recruitment office with beautifully coiffed hair, expert make-up, and painted nails. said she wanted to be a sniper. they laughed her to scorn. she did as much to rid eastern europe of the nazis as any single human could. but i'm sure brian will object to her avatar, er, uniform.
"I have never felt comfortable around people who talk about their feelings for Jesus, or any other deity for that matter, because they are usually none too bright. . . . Or maybe 'stupid' is a better way of saying it; but I have never seen much point in getting heavy with either stupid people or Jesus freaks, just as long as they don't bother me. In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone. They will not inherit the earth, but then neither will I. . . . And I have learned to live, as it were, with the idea that I will never find peace and happiness, either. But as long as I know there's a pretty good chance I can get my hands on either one of them every once in a while, I do the best I can between high spots."
--Hunter S. Thompson
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Yes, from what I've read many Soviet partisans were women who willingly engaged in armed conflict ( regardless of whether they were tasked as snipers ) with the German armed forces. It took big balls to do that as the German forces ( especially the SS ) had absolutely no qualms about torturing and killing captured partisans regardless of their gender. I just noticed Pavlichenko is actually holding a semiautomatic SVT 40 which fired the same round as the Mosin Nagant bolt action rifle.
This small statured ( 5'3" ) Finn was Simo Hayha, the highest scoring sniper who has ever lived. He was called White Death by the Soviets, and rightly so as he killed 504 Russian soldiers with his Finnish made Mosin Nagant bolt action rifle. All kills were made wihin a 100 day span and using a rifle that was only equipped with iron sights, no scope. He had his lower left jaw shattered by a Soviet sniper and yet survived the Winter War ( Finland against Russia 1939-1940 ) and died in 2002 at aged 96.
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Offline Beyond Saving wrote:As far as force recon though, it is the physical strength aspects that would be far more difficult for a female recruit.
I'm sure you are corrct. There's no shame for her for not being able to meet the strength demands of tier one military fighters. Those limitations are inherent for her gender. But she could follow the example of the Soviet era female snipers who let a bolt action Mosin Nagant do their killing. Also, the highet scoring sniper ever was a small statured Finnish man ( His name was Simo something or other ) who killed around 500 Soviet military personel during WW 2.
As far as extremely high physical/ mental standards go, I remember reading a book by a Viet Nam era SEAL ( Lt Com Michael J. Walsh, ret ) that in one of the classes before his, there were exactly zero candidates who completed the training to become a SEAL. Not a single one. The Navy required a level of performance that was so demanding, that at least on one occasion not a single SEAL was produced. How's that for not cutting anyone any slack ? LOL.
And I think it is a perfectly fair criticism of the Corps that they make the requirements to get into sniper school so physically strenuous. The work of a sniper is far more mental than physical. It is unlikely that a sniper is going to need to sling a comrade over their shoulders and exfil. It is the infiltration and exfiltration training that requires the most extreme physical work, but in most warfare, the most extreme methods are rarely used outside of groups like the SEALS that operate in countries where we publicly don't operate. The reality is that our methods were designed to take on nations with 1st world technology, and the 3rd world shitholes we fight in don't have navies or airforce significant enough to justify a 10 mile underwater swim to infiltrate or HALO jumps. Within 2-3 days we have FARPS set up and complete air/naval superiority to drop troops off wherever the fuck we want with little risk.
There is certainly plenty of need for snipers to do defensive/counter/support work which consists of being dropped off and a short hump with under 100 pounds of equipment. Certainly within the realm of possibility for all female Marines. As far as the actual shooting goes, I've heard that women actually perform better than men on average (although admitedly I have not seen actual stats to prove that). Who knows how much talent is passed on, both male and female, because their requirements were made during a very different era of warfare.
If, if a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. But if you - if you hold a gun on him and make him embrace me and pretend to be friendly or brotherly toward me, then that's not brotherhood, that's hypocrisy.- Malcolm X
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Why do they call them 3-D printers? Why would you want to be limited to printing one letter 3 times?
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Some combination therein wins.
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All the attemps to ban guns will fail with this technology and I, for one, am very happy about that.
didn't some one post this already? i remember seeing it three or four months ago.
Well, we need to be reminded every so often that the men in our species love their testosterone. It would really suck if humans worked to reduce violence, as long as the gun huggers get to play Dirty Harry, that is really what matters. We could really give them some mental porn by inventing machines that can print plastic nukes too.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
Check out my poetry here on Rational Responders Like my poetry thread on Facebook under Brian James Rational Poet, @Brianrrs37 on Twitter and my blog at www.brianjamesrationalpoet.blog
you do know that an enormous amount of gun owners are women, right? you're being incredibly sexist. then again, women weren't the ones beating the shit out of you for liking abba or whatever (couldn't have possibly been because you were a shrill, self-righteous little fuck then as you are now), and of course that's the real root of your anger at the stereotypical male persona. the guns are just a handy excuse.
"I have never felt comfortable around people who talk about their feelings for Jesus, or any other deity for that matter, because they are usually none too bright. . . . Or maybe 'stupid' is a better way of saying it; but I have never seen much point in getting heavy with either stupid people or Jesus freaks, just as long as they don't bother me. In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone. They will not inherit the earth, but then neither will I. . . . And I have learned to live, as it were, with the idea that I will never find peace and happiness, either. But as long as I know there's a pretty good chance I can get my hands on either one of them every once in a while, I do the best I can between high spots."
--Hunter S. Thompson
Lmfao. I think I would've voted for a tirade against guns and gun owners, with a slam against evil multinational corporations that make them, and maybe a comment on evolution concerning why we can't stop using guns. But, it's too late now; I would've been wrong.
Whoa! Do I get any points for his second post?
Our revels now are ended. These our actors, | As I foretold you, were all spirits, and | Are melted into air, into thin air; | And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, | The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, | The solemn temples, the great globe itself, - Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, | And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, | Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff | As dreams are made on, and our little life | Is rounded with a sleep. - Shakespeare
Yet more mindless stereotyping from a whiney, leftist SJW who constantly rails against mindless stereotyping.
( Brian, my girl friend is a totally preppy, feminine beauty whose first rifle was a scoped AR 15. She likes military style weapons and so do I. I save my testosterone for other uses. )
I was just wondering the same thing. > >
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Again you are a fucking sexist pig. As iwbiek pointed out, many gun enthusiasts are women, and women are by far the fastest growing segment of both the gun market, target shooting market and are the only demographic among hunters that is growing rather than shrinking. It has gotten to the point that the major gun manufacturers are looking at creating product lines specifically designed to appeal to women.
www.fieldandstream.com/national-shooting-sports-foundation-study
No doubt one of the largest drivers of this is concealed carry. Women take the classes and are no longer afraid of guns. They buy one for protection, then they discover that they actually enjoy using it and that has led them to other shooting sports like target competition or hunting.
Unfortunately, such past times were seen as a "man's hobby" and something that only men should do by sexist fuckwads like you, so many women never even tried them to know if they would like them or not. So a woman who hunted was rarer than a winning lottery ticket.
If, if a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. But if you - if you hold a gun on him and make him embrace me and pretend to be friendly or brotherly toward me, then that's not brotherhood, that's hypocrisy.- Malcolm X
Check out all the testosterone: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f8VmJRuBFY
Give that little girl some extra training, she would be ready for Marine Corps Recon.
SPEAKING OF TESTOSTERONE
HERE is why you don't mess with a lady's purse...ESPECIALLY IN THE SOUTH!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrhSf8CEgC8
She's a good shot but that deep southern accent sounds so foreign to me and I'm a native born Texan.
Funny you should mention Force Recon because there's one ( Beyond saving ) posting in this thread right now. He rarely mentions it, though.
Katelyn Francis has been running around hunting circles promoting hunting for young ladies as well so she doesn't appear to have a problem killing things. Obviously, she is too stupid to understand EVOLUTION!™
She doesn't understand that girls are supposed to sit around playing with dolls and only menfolk with testosterone are supposed to be running around shooting things and killing bambi. As far as force recon though, it is the physical strength aspects that would be far more difficult for a female recruit.
And don't worry about that, good liberals like Brian have already made sure that female training in boot camp is physically easier than the training for males in order to be "fair". That makes sure that they don't come out of it with the chops to even get into recon training, let alone pass. That way, the only way a woman will make it into recon is with the help of the government to change the rules special for her, we can't have someone thinking they have achieved something for themselves, why they might be proud.
If, if a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. But if you - if you hold a gun on him and make him embrace me and pretend to be friendly or brotherly toward me, then that's not brotherhood, that's hypocrisy.- Malcolm X
I'm sure you are corrct. There's no shame for her for not being able to meet the strength demands of tier one military fighters. Those limitations are inherent for her gender. But she could follow the example of the Soviet era female snipers who let a bolt action Mosin Nagant do their killing. Also, the highet scoring sniper ever was a small statured Finnish man ( His name was Simo something or other ) who killed around 500 Soviet military personel during WW 2.
As far as extremely high physical/ mental standards go, I remember reading a book by a Viet Nam era SEAL ( Lt Com Michael J. Walsh, ret ) that in one of the classes before his, there were exactly zero candidates who completed the training to become a SEAL. Not a single one. The Navy required a level of performance that was so demanding, that at least on one occasion not a single SEAL was produced. How's that for not cutting anyone any slack ? LOL.