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Album:2006:08-11 Survival-Research-Labs
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There's a group called Survival Research Labs that does great exploding
destruction art. They were one of the original influences on Burning
Man, and they had a show in San Jose that we checked out. If I hadn't
been to Burning Man, then I would've been floored, but this was much
like the fighting robot side of Burning Man (which I obviously
subscribe to)
on a smaller scale.
Massive fighting robots, fire, a tesla coil, and a machine that shot wooden 2x4s
at 80 mph in "combat" makes for an interesting time. One of the fighting robots
was "armed" with a massive cannon pulse jet that made this booming bass that
shook your clothes. Excellent. There was also a mini train/tank thing that
had 6 air cannons on the top, similar to what we want to do in our town, but
using explosives as the motive force for the air. Whatever works. :)
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Preparing for death!
Danger!
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Evan was the one
who pointed us towards the show.
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There were fighting robots,
and a large tesla coil.
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The tesla coil
wasn't exactly made to produce large bolts, but in this case that was good, because it would have killed most of the crowd nearby.
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Blurry,
but many bolts from the coil.
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Lightning death to robots!
The robots conveniently drove under the tesla coil to get shocked.
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Video of the chaos.
You can hear the cannon pulse jet engine making the most amazing booming bass I've ever heard. [Video, 2M]
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Post-show cleanup
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