Comments on: Australian Archives VII

By: theacehamster

theacehamster — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 23:25:05 +0000

So, some guy in Germany comes to you with the outlandish idea of flying to the bombs to their target on a rocket motor and you say go back to your tree monkey.

History is littered with strange ideas from non conventional sources, like the patent clerk who changed physics

By: Tanzer

Tanzer — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 06:58:08 +0000

Must have been an interesting guy. I can see the connection between working around all that steel – Whyalla is home to a (small) fully integrated steel plant which has been plugging along for some time – still going today. They run out a lot of rail and heavy beam. I guess he was looking for some way to harness the steelmaking and inhouse engineering capacity of the Whyalla plant to a different form of contribution to the war effort. Interesting find, thanks for the post.

By: The King of Derp

The King of Derp — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 06:29:20 +0000

Stronk English there mate! :)

By: nononononono

nononononono — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 05:53:51 +0000

Actually? Lolz. A million monkeys on typewriters would only reliably produce works of appreciable worth if the time to do so was infinite. Time is a finite resource. Monkeys should climb trees and throw faeces to make the most of their own time, and waste the least time of others.

By: theacehamster

theacehamster — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 03:46:04 +0000

Actually, going through these submissions would have been useful work, as there is always the chance that the next big idea is on the next page.
Sometimes not being an engineer can get you to look at the problem in a different manner.

By: nononononono

nononononono — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 01:01:44 +0000

Ok, the guy had good intentions and wanted to assist in the war effort, but somebody had to actually field this subsmission, file the contents, and reply to the originator, all instead of doing something, well, useful.

Old mate shoulda stuck’ta stickin’ stiffs in the ground.

By: 23r0_NA

23r0_NA — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 22:57:21 +0000

iirc they actually considered doing something like that. XD

By: Wolvenworks

Wolvenworks — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 20:23:41 +0000

Jarate Dispenser =D

By: Skarakien

Skarakien — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 17:45:15 +0000

Imagine this tank going into a city. :D
“STEAMROLLED SWAGMEN!”

By: nononononono

nononononono — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 17:24:01 +0000

it’s funny you say it’s funny you say loltractor 2.0…