Leonardo’s mind was a glorious place.
100% the guy I’d have dinner with if I could go back in time.
It is also interesting to note that there is speculation among historians that Da Vinci may have deliberately included errors in the designs of his war machines, as he was probably more of a pacifist.
This is mentioned, for example, in this article on the design of the Da Vinci tank:
Some scholars argue that Leonardo, a known pacifist, may have deliberately included this flaw to prevent his design from being used for warfare. Others, however, believe it could have been an oversight.
Reminds me of https://wiki.lspace.org/Leonard_of_Quirm
I genuinely wanted to understand more about that supposed contradiction, but frankly, that article was one of the worst, most tedious, painful articles I’ve ever tried to read. It was vague, repetitive, and reeks of AI-generated slop.
Decades ago I had the pleasure of marking student essays. We humans have mastered writing vague, repetitive slop long before we taught machines to do so…
To be fair thats what happens when essays have minnimum word counts, long essays that are long because they don’t know the topic well and long essays that are passionate and succinct and then padded out to meet the length requirement.
This article was just one not pay walled piece I found right away - I figured I’d at least mention some kind of source. I’m sure there’s much more information on this to be found elsewhere.
As a pacifist, he might simply have not been thinking through optimizing a killing machine in depth, and it was more of a lark of a design.
I’m not a writer of TeleNovelas, so I bet I might not think through every aspect needed to make one awesome either. Doesn’t mean I haven’t written 32 pages of “La Vida Delirante” where 5 women make a pact to leave the circus to marry rich men so they can live comfortable lives, except they picked the guys randomly and no one can commit to anything and are always switching men. But they are pursued across fabulous vacation destinations by La Reina Apestosa, a Romani sorceress attempting to lure the 5 women back so she can sell their souls to the devil in exchange for the love of the lion tamer at the circus.
this story reminds me of the mitchell and webb death ray bit.
Time traveler
a Gundam model would have killed him
