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100 Ton Marble Load Truck Rear Housing Hub Broken! Massive Roadside Repair Under Heavy Load

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Back to more engine stuff, and yes, I've actually had my hands on one of these engines. The engineer stands behind the engine with a cigar in his mouth, wearing a white shirt, his expression captured in a moment of pride. The engine on the stand represents Chrysler's ambitious Ball-Stud Hemi project, designated A279, an attempt to develop a more compact, lighter, and less expensive hemispherical V8. The goal was to consolidate several existing big-block engine families into a common architecture that could deliver Hemi performance without the packaging difficulties and manufacturing costs associated with the 426. The proposed design was roughly 100 pounds lighter and 6.5 inches narrower than the production 426 Hemi, potentially making it easier to install across Chrysler's vehicle lineup. It was an ambitious engineering program, but it never reached production. The engine's production-oriented details distinguish it from a dedicated racing Hemi. A conventional air cleaner sits above a single four-barrel carburetor rather than a tunnel ram or dual-carburetor competition setup. Beneath the valve covers, the hemispherical combustion chambers retain the characteristic arrangement of intake and exhaust valves on opposing sides. The major difference lies in the valvetrain. Instead of the 426's shaft-mounted rocker assemblies, the Ball-Stud Hemi used individual rocker arms pivoting on ball studs, a simpler arrangement similar in principle to the system used on Chevrolet small-block and big-block V8s. Eliminating the bulky rocker shafts helped reduce the cylinder heads' overall width, weight, and manufacturing complexity while preserving the basic hemispherical chamber concept. The A279 program also aimed to simplify Chrysler's engine manufacturing. Based on the low-deck B-engine architecture rather than the taller RB platform used by the 440 and 426 Hemi, the proposed design sought to make greater use of existing production methods and tooling. Plans reportedly included 400- and 444-cubic-inch versions intended to cover much of the company's big-block market. A successful program could have reduced the number of distinct engine families Chrysler needed to manufacture, although the precise degree of parts interchangeability and tooling savings would have depended on the final production specification. The concept offered a practical alternative to maintaining separate conventional big-block and expensive Hemi programs, but the engine still needed to prove its durability, performance, and production readiness. The timing worked against it. By the end of the 1960s, rising insurance costs, tightening emissions requirements, and shifting corporate priorities were putting pressure on the American muscle-car market. Chrysler discontinued the A279 development program before the Ball-Stud Hemi could become a production engine. Accounts of the project describe a small prototype run, with only a handful of engines surviving after the program ended, although exact production and survival totals are difficult to establish. The engine in the photograph therefore represents more than an unusual Chrysler prototype. It embodies an alternative direction the company explored: a Hemi designed not just for maximum performance but for easier packaging, lower manufacturing costs, and broader use across the lineup. The project never reached showrooms, leaving the Ball-Stud Hemi as a fascinating example of how engineering ambitions can be defeated by timing and economics before a design gets the chance to prove itself.

🚨 WORLD’S TALLEST MEDIUM-WAVE MASTS JUST FELL. The twin 355-meter Liblice B towers in Czechia, taller than the Eiffel Tower and once the most powerful MW transmitters in Central Europe at 1.5 MW, were brought down simultaneously after nearly 50 years as the country’s tallest structures. Built in 1976, their service elevators ran on combustion engines rather than electricity, and technicians needed roughly 45 minutes to reach the top. As ground-based radio giants give way to satellites and fiber, these unique engineering landmarks are gone in about ten seconds.

WAR IS A RACKET: Major Smedley D. Butler: “I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.”

A U.S. congressman wants to change how we legally “own” video games. Rep. Ritchie Torres has announced plans to introduce the Power To The Players Act, a bill that would direct the FTC to create rules protecting consumers who buy video games. The proposal would give players three basic rights: >The right to own the games they purchase, rather than simply receiving a revocable license >The right to keep playing games after online servers are shut down, through an offline mode >The right to transfer or resell games they own Torres argues that if a company can take a game away simply by shutting down its servers, then the consumer didn’t really buy the game in the first place. Torres also hopes the legislation could eventually establish a precedent for ownership rights across other parts of the digital economy: “If you pay for it, you own it.”

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Here's something you won't see on the shelf at Bass Pro. These Norma anti-drone 12-gauge shotshells are high-pressure rounds loaded with tungsten shot with an effective range of up 100 meters against aerial drones. #AUSA

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Apparently the reason why kettles aren’t common in the US is because the wattage of your kettles are so low it takes forever, whereas in the UK a kettle is at a higher wattage and takes avg 1-2 mins for a full boil

A 19-year-old MIT student created these AI-powered robots costing $82,000 that do an excellent job. the most valuable thing these robots do is use ordinary power tools, because that means the robot doesn’t have to be redesigned for every job. Two humanoids drill, sand, cut and lift a shelving unit into place, working with tools a contractor already owns. A specialized machine needs its own attachments, its own software and its own purchasing decision. A humanoid that picks up a standard drill or circular saw inherits decades of tool design for free. The tools become the robot’s attachments, and they are cheap, standardized and sold everywhere. Think about who pays for this work. Flat-pack assembly, shelving installation and apartment fit-outs are tedious, repetitive jobs that people hate doing and often pay a handyman a lot to do. A small installation company could eventually offer a furnished room delivered in a day, with a human supervisor walking between jobs while the machines do the repetitive work. That is a possibility, not something this footage proves. If the robots really are interchangeable workers, hardware stops being the scarce thing. The value moves to whoever knows how to run a job: sequencing the work, handling the cabinet that arrives with a missing panel, and fixing the wall that isn’t actually square. Humans who understand the mess of a real building become the bottleneck, and the part of the job that is hardest to automate gets more valuable. There’s also a quiet advantage for the tool brand on the robot’s chest. Batteries, blades and bits could become a recurring revenue stream, the way printers sell ink. So who earns more here, the company that builds the robot or the one that figures out how to keep it busy?

When your AI torso bots get stuck in a "buh-bye" loop...

I remember. Back then even the electric knife acted up.

genai is bad for many people’s mental health:

Komputery kwantowe są dziś praktycznie bezużyteczne - obecnie nie są w stanie wykonywać żadnych przydatnych obliczeń i do dziś nie wykonały ani jednego. Za to styl mają świetny styl. Ta plątanina złoconych płytek i złotych kabli przypominająca żyrandol wygląda zjawiskowo, choć w gruncie rzeczy to tylko lodówka. Niektóre firmy zatrudniają nawet projektantów by tworzyć parawany w stylu art déco. Obudowa to na razie w sumie jedyne, co mają do pokazania. Może to i dobre podejście w przypadku technologii, która istnieje głównie w harmonogramach i prospektach biznesowych.