Blake Fall-Conroy, “Minimum Wage Machine,” 2008-2010
This machine allows anyone to work for minimum wage for as long as they like. Turning the crank on the side releases one penny every 4.97 seconds, for a total of $7.25 per hour. This corresponds to minimum wage for a person in New York.
This piece is brilliant on multiple levels, particularly as social commentary. Without a doubt, most people who started operating the machine for fun would quickly grow disheartened and stop when realizing just how little they’re earning by turning this mindless crank. A person would then conceivably realize that this is what nearly two million people in the United States do every day…at much harder jobs than turning a crank. This turns the piece into a simple, yet effective argument for raising the minimum wage.
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Snow in Gotham
- Art by DevilHS
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How NASA might build its very first warp drive
A few months ago, physicist Harold White stunned the aeronautics world when he announced that he and his team at NASA had begun work on the development of a faster-than-light warp drive. His proposed design, an ingenious re-imagining of an Alcubierre Drive, may eventually result in an engine that can transport a spacecraft to the nearest star in a matter of weeks — and all without violating Einstein’s law of relativity.
#first we may have found prothean ruins #now we’re building a mass relay
uh when did we start living in the future
FUCK
wtf science you’re moving too fast for this relationship
wait what am i saying BRING IT ON
Can has turians?
Delorean
Delorean 500GB hard drive in stainless steel, from Flash Rods.
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Had to make it really
I’m pretty sure the tin foil one is going to end badly if someone doesn’t realise the polarities are different….
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