#tubes

[70sscifiart]

1969 cover art by Mitchell Hooks for ‘The Fortec Conspiracy,’ by Edmond G. Addeo and Richard M. Garvin

[futurebird]

Tube loitering

One of the downsides to connecting your nests using long tubes is "ant loitering" some ants like to just hang out in the tubes because they retain a little moisture and it's near everything. This will cause the tubes to get dirty and less attractive... hence my new invention of a "mid tube fan."

Getting ants to do anything is next level. They respond to every change and not in the ways you'd predict. They are sensitive to temp, light levels and air currents in ways that aren't obvious. I just need to find a small enough fan and 3D print a little holder for it. 

I recently cleared out a tube that the cone ants blocked with sand, using ... the legs of dead crickets like rebar to reenforce the structure. They had made this whole barricade to regulate the air flow to the nest (hence I'd never recommend a fan on a nest tube)

I guess building a wall out of cricket legs (as struts) with a sand slurry like concrete... isn't any more strange than those early humans with their bone huts...

though I still find both creepy.

[xponentialdesign]

lux fistulæ coloræ

[goshyesvintageads]

Stewart-Warner Speedometer Corp, 1926

[nemfrog]

Apparatus used to distil ethyl bromide. Practical organic chemistry. 1920 ed.

Internet Archive

[art-of-mathematics]

Today I found a good video about merging tubes with different angles, ellipses, phase shift of sine waves, featuring sculptures by Frank Smullin.

This video is exceptionally comprehensive.

[Shared by hardm.ix on instagram: Text says: "A little more on the analytic constructivist sculpture of Frank Smullin, a professor of mine at Duke University who combined art and engineering in a way that reminded me a little of Kenneth Snelson and Tensegrity or Buckminster Fuller and geodesic domes."]

[imweepin]

Today I Opened My Eyes

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[toacody]

Bionicle MOC: Fuerza Prima

You gotta upgrade to stay profitable.

Source

Creator: LordObliviontheGreat

[zemi-noelle-art]

Took a very special environment commission from a friend and made her character's living space! I had a lot of fun with this piece!!

[crippled-peeper]

What if people who can’t swallow end up choking on thick water? Then what?

If it is temporary you are either tube fed through your nose (nasogastric or NG tube) or your mouth (Orogastric - OG tube).

If they know it is going to be permanent they (usually a hospital) will make a surgical port in your stomach (Gastric - G tube) or small intestine (Jejunostomy - J tube) to deliver nutrition through

[67i203]

[70sscifiart]

John Schoenherr’s January 1973 Analog cover

[wardfamilyknox]

[pitofsquids]

Fatima

[realspacejunk]

Ferro Jungle

Sprite hiding in a passageway

[evilhorse]

Going to Paris makes you grumpy?

(Justice League International Annual #3)