Papercraft – MV-101(Personal Marine Transport)

Hi,

Here is yet another paper craft item I have created a few weeks ago. This time it is of a marine transport vehicle.

Backstory: The MV-101 is used for quick insertion and exit of micro teams inside enemy territory. The craft can accommodate only one person.  This vehicle was never intended for combat. The craft is tuned for high speed in contrast of combat. No weapons installed means lighter weight coupled with high power twin turbine engines give it high speed and nimbleness. Armed forces around the world have customized this craft to add firepower like rockets and mini-guns.

 

Papercraft – VT-31(VTOL)

VTOL is short for Vertical Take Off and Land Aircraft. Besides Helicopters certain aircraft have this capability. The sea harrier, f-35 are some examples.

My Version of a VTOL named VT-31 from future.

Backstory: The VT-31 is a single pilot craft with align able boosters to help vertical take offs and landings. Mostly used for Recon this VTOL provides a quick way to enter and exit points of Interest. Although not built for combat, a VT-31 can be used for preliminary defense. Some variants have lock on air to air/air to surface missiles and pulse projectile guns. Few law enforcement agencies use the VT-31 as a workhorse for urban warfare.

Papercraft – Orbital Escape Pod

Starting today, I’ll be periodically sharing some of the origami/paper craft I do in my free time.  Most of the paper craft is fictional material and mostly sci-fi. Hope you find it good.

The first one is of an Orbital Escape pod.

Backstory: Dangers of Inter planetary travel include space garbage, bounty hunters, stellar material. Escape pods are mandatory in all carriers starting from space frigates to Ships. The Orbital Escape pod illustrated below has enough fuel for 8 days of stellar flight and stabilizers to help drifting. It also has laser and radio communication. On board there is one detachable phasor cannon that can be used in flight and on land.

Return to Sender

Is it just me or does anyone else send emails to themselves? No I do not have a split personality disorder! I do this when I want to preserve something for future references. I send a lot of stuff to myself like pics, huge amounts of text, Web Links, Work Stuff etc., So, When I look at my email it seems like I can see a chronicle of how my taste in various things improved or degenerated. To me this is a good way of having information lying around.

Ok., Ok. So as you know from my blogs that I dabble in day dreaming and Time Travel and then both, I imagine what would it be like if I could contact my past self through email(Why this can be plausible is explained at the end – Reading that content is optional to avoid bloodshed). So below is the transcript of my emails from my future self to me.

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From: Me <Me@email.com>
Sent Date: Fri, Dec 9, 2022 at 8:00 PM
Subject: Cracked the Time Continuum
To: Myself <Me@email.com>

Hey,

Just solved the biggest mystery. Will send you details…..

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After a few days,

From: Me <Me@email.com>
Sent Date: Sun, Dec 9, 2023 at 8:00 PM
Subject: RE : Cracked the Time Continuum
To: Myself <Me@email.com>

Hello again,

Built the time machine. It cost me..oops us a fortune. Meet you at our school ground on Dec 9 2015. See you there.

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Few days later,

From: Me <Me@email.com>
Sent Date: Mon, Dec 10, 2023 at 8:00 PM
Subject: RE : Cracked the Time Continuum
To: Myself <Me@email.com>

What the hell,

You didn’t turn up, Are you so lazy that you wouldn’t turn up to meet your future self. All the knowledge you could get from me wasn’t important than your Sunday morning sleep. Lets try this again, all right.  Dec 10, its a monday. Be there.

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Again.,

From: Me <Me@email.com>
Sent Date: Mon, Dec 11, 2023 at 8:00 PM
Subject: RE : Cracked the Time Continuum
To: Myself <Me@email.com>

Ok., this isn’t funny. What part of this extraordinary phenomenon don’t you understand. You turned up but saw the ice cream vendor and ran after him. I can’t believe you invented the time machine. Lets do this again, lets meet up at your house on Dec 11.  Please make it this time, I only have fuel for one more trip.

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Subsequently.,

From: Me <Me@email.com>
Sent Date: Tue, Dec 12, 2023 at 8:00 PM
Subject: RE : Cracked the Time Continuum
To: Myself <Me@email.com>

OH MY FRACKING GOODNESS!!!!! You went to office on that day….seriously oh my god, how retarded are you.

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After all this I send out a reply to my future self,

From: Myself <Me@email.com>
Sent Date: Wed, Dec 12, 2011 at 8:00 PM
Subject: RE : Cracked the Time Continuum
To: Me <Me@email.com>

I have been trying to reach you. I sent myself a bucket load of emails so that you could see them in future. Didn’t you get them?

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Single line Reply:

From: Me <Me@email.com>
Sent Date: Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 8:00 PM
Subject: RE : Cracked the Time Continuum
To: Myself <Me@email.com>

All your mail went to spam folder………

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THE END

Image Coutesy: Live, Nerd, Repeat. Thanks Bro.,

Why this can be plausible: It is known that sub atomic particles in the large hadron collider sometimes move escape into different time due to large velocities. On the information highway, electrons do travel with the speed of light and some packets of data may get transferred although not with the same fidelity. But I will need to test this :).

Weekend Meltdown

Aah., its that time of the week. Time when my brain prepares it shutdown routines….

I imagine little people working in my brain, akin to a Nuclear Power Plant. Mind you its a private enterprise and not a government run plant(Vanity is my vice). Anyways, I think there are mangers, engineers, support, maintenance personnel in there. Every Friday 8:00 pm a siren kicks off when I press the windows and the L keys simultaneously and on cue the managers ping the support staff to commence shut down activities. The support guys go over the checklists and ping maintenance personnel for the go-ahead sign offs. The maintenance staff calls on the engineers to be on site to oversee the whole thing.

The shutdown process kicks off and people start shutting down the brain. I imagine lots of valves turned, buttons pressed and finally the President and the EVP pull out the keys and high level authorization codes they have in the steel brief cases handcuffed to their right hands(no points for guessing why right hands. Sorry for the potty humor). They enter the codes and turn the keys simultaneously and the brain is shut down. After a small cake cutting everyone leaves. Now all the Executive staff goes home to their families while the young-ins go off clubbing and pub hopping at cerebellum, and the hypothalamus and the synapse chain of restaurants. Every one is just happy to leave my brain. Even I don’t pick up my brain’s phone calls during weekends.

But some medieval Chinese guy said “Every Dog has its day” followed by “Today is not yours” while looking at a stray dog and subsequently relishing a doggy biryani. My brain one-ups me as somehow my Batman Arkham City game pulls me toward it. The brain says to me “look who came crawling back on a weekend”. The staff at my brain is called on an emergency hotline and they prepare for a tough weekend. There are somehow no comp-offs for those guys. I don’t even think they have a decent pension plan or insurance. Yet by the grace of god I didn’t have any meltdowns in the past.

I need to plan some incentives for the guys!!!!!! May be a long morale boosting email would be good….

hawleywood ke dialagaan

Some of the most awesome Hollywood dialogues in Hyderabadi….

Terminator Series: I’ll be back….

Main wapas aatuw…

300:  Tonight we dine in Hell….

Raatku Jahannam main daawat karingey

Casablanca: Of all the gin joints in all the towns in the world she walks into mine

Duniya bhar ke Saarey gaawan ke Sharaab khaanon main, mere ismeich challeko aayi

Scarface: Say “hello” to my little friend!

Merey chotey pattthey ko hallo bolo.

Forrest Gump: Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.

Amma boley zindagi chacklet ka dabba hai. Kya milta ki kya maloom….

Fragship

Whats “Fragship” you say? Its Fragging Friendship…. This is the kind of friendship you see between two gamers or two friends who are gaming.

Every gamer has Fragship stories…….Here are some of mine.

• Foot boards; Friends playing Need for Speed 2 with feet instead of hands over an irritating roommate’s PC.
  
• Princess is in another Castle; A friend losing a life at the end of the lava stage and the entire classroom who were concentrating on his screen gasps “oooooh” bewildering the tutor.
  
• In the land of the Blind, the guy with one eye is the king; Playing Unreal Tournament with my friends: Always hogging the invisible power and then camping on the skyscraper and sniping the hell out of everyone.
• No one gets left behind; Playing Army of Two with a friend who always leaves me behind and rushes of ahead.
• Mind Blowing; Achieving a Head shot through sniper scope zoomed in on the enemy while a friend is having dinner much to his discomfort.
• King of the Hill; Having a score of 21-24 in a 25 kill death match and getting 4 kills with a vehicle and winning the match at 3 am in the morning.
• Of mice and Men; Playing an online fps on a buddy’s laptop using his track pad and him letting me do it.

Gaming rocks but friends rock harder……

Thanks Ashu, Nagar, Sravan, Venky, Vijay, Bhanu, Anil and many more….

Not so Superman?

I plan to sue Superman for the fact that he is not awesome. The court hearing would go this way. I am the opposition lawyer against Superman by the way.

ME: You are an alien right?

Superman: What has this gotta…..(interrupted)

ME: Answer me

Superman: Yes.

ME: So do you have any legal papers certifying you aren’t illegal?

Superman’s Lawyer: Objection.

Judge: Overruled

ME: do you?

Superman: No

ME: Point to be noted my lord. Superman is an illegal alien

ME: Is it true You don’t have to eat to replenish energy? You charge by the sun?

Superman: Yes.

ME: So you are useless on rainy and overcast days?

Superman: I could harvest energy from Sunflowers!!!

ME: You carry around sunflowers with you.

Superman: …………..

ME: You are harmed by Kryptonite, yeah?

Superman: it’s my achilles’ heel.

ME: So a Baby with Kyrptonite in its diaper can defeat you?

Superman: I can’t harm….. a baby.

ME: I don’t…… care.

ME: Batman’s arch-nemesis is Joker, Leonidas’ was Xerxes. Who’s yours?

Superman: Lex!

ME: Superstars ke khoobsurathi ka raaz???

Superman: (Facepalming) Lex Luthor.

ME: So a bald business man in his late forties. I don’t wanna even go into it.

ME: What commendable superpowers do you have?

Superman: X-ray vision.

ME: You Perv………….

ME: Lets come to more scientific facts. Your kind doesn’t need to eat, they charge by the sun yeah?

Superman: Yes.

ME: Then why do you have a mouth? Also why do you look like a human. Were there apes on your planet too? Huh?

Superman: I DON’T KNOWWW!

ME: You ain’t got no Darwin in Krypton Bitch!!!

Superman’s Lawyer: Objection,Your honour, prosecution is using in-disciplinary  language.

Judge: Overruled Mutha*****……..

ME: I rest my case, your honour.

Judge: By the awesomely placed questions of the prosecution it is proven Superman is not super. He is hereby not to be referred as superman but the law shall allow him to be called “not so superman” or “marginally superman” or “partially superman” so that people may not be confused.

ME: Hey “not so superman” I am sorry……………….NOT. Batman can still kick your ass!!!!

That’s how it has to end…….”Sue”perman.

Musings of a Time Traveller

The Large Hadron Particle Collider was created to hunt for the Higg’s Boson or the God Particle. Scientists are looking for the God particle. I thought Science didn’t believe in Religion. Anyways so when the Collider was supposed to start it was rumored that the fabric time and space shall be ripped; black holes would be created everywhere just like in a Micheal bay blockbuster. And it would only be upto the United States to save the day.

Now the most interesting thing that came to light from the experiment was that during these particle collisions sub-atomic particles can rip the space-time continuum to travel through time. And this was the spark to ignite my mind. Suddenly I started wondering what to do if I go back in time…,

May be buy some Google and Apple stock in the early nineties, Buy land around the metropolitan cities., Then my mind starts getting devious., It has got a mind of its own! (I love recursion)  I get devilish thoughts like what If I could Meet my wife before we get married, Stop the Fodder scam, Leave a missed call to Graham bell, catch the apple before it hit Newton, Puncture the First Wheel, Play Tag with a Tyrannosoarus  Rex, Save the dodo from being extinct, Prevent the Big Bang…….

Scientists may say this is not possible and physics won’t allow me to do these changes because any change in the past can erase the future. Fancy way of saying Karma’s a Bitch. But also the scientists have the Chaos theory which says the flapping of a butterfly’s wing in the past could lead to a tornado in the future and you can have multiverses or parallel universes. Mind boggling stuff but then I realize I don’t want to go to the past. Its the future I am after.

All I wanna do is go to the future and buy… uhmmm … rob stuff (rising inflation) and bring it back to my time to enjoy it. I would wake up to the song I want to listen played on my DNA based computer which would monitor my dreams to understand what my mood is, followed by a spray of the Bath Gas, Wear my Headsup display goggles and jump on my hoverboard to fly off into the sunrise……… Ah the life.

Dreams are great… aren’t they?????

If Life was a Videogame….

I have a bad habit, I day dream a lot. It’s what got me through the social studies class in School. I can’t get rid of this habit. Frankly, I don’t want to. It’s what keeps me entertained when I don’t have anything to do.

The other day I was thinking What would human life be if it were a video game;

1. Wake up in the morning. Want to sleep more —————– Hit the Pause button.

2. Bath?? What Bath?? —————— Mario travels 8 worlds without a single bead of sweat.

3. Breakfast! —————– Ha., When was the last Master Chief asked for hard boiled eggs.

4. Spilled Coffee on wifey’s favorite carpet ——————- “Reload Checkpoint”

5. Feel Feverish ————————– Look for Medkit. Limit search to bathroom cupboards.

6. Injured ——————- Health pack ahoy! Most plausible location on the wall of a random building.

7. Bank balance is zero ————– Kick, destroy or maim Trashcans. For higher amounts repeat above steps on pedestrians.

8. Traffic Jam —————- Knock every car off the road. Look for a glowing wrench and drive into it for repairs.

9. Late for Office and Boss is shunting  ——————— Hadouken!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!