Comments on: Hamster Powered Submarine http://blog.makezine.com/2012/01/05/hamster-powered-submarine/ DIY projects, how-tos, and inspiration from geeks, makers, and hackers Fri, 24 May 2013 15:21:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: baio http://blog.makezine.com/2012/01/05/hamster-powered-submarine/#comment-333046 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:51:31 +0000 http://blog.makezine.com/?p=124563#comment-333046 I agree, very irresponsible to post something like this on YouTube for 5 minutes of fame…

]]> By: Alan Dove http://blog.makezine.com/2012/01/05/hamster-powered-submarine/#comment-330588 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:55:10 +0000 http://blog.makezine.com/?p=124563#comment-330588 Right, so a page that just asserts the same thing, with no citation.

]]> By: Anonymous http://blog.makezine.com/2012/01/05/hamster-powered-submarine/#comment-330085 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:14:00 +0000 http://blog.makezine.com/?p=124563#comment-330085 I am not entirely sure what to make of it. What is actually powered by the hamster wheel?
I guess for the hamster this enclosure is not much worse than a habitrail cage, and at least he doesn’t have to stay in that contraption for too long.

The hamster does seem to panic though (Hamsters run either for pleasure or out of fear, in this case, being tugged about in a bottle I guess he’s frightened)…. Then again pretty much anything a child does with a hamster will freighten him…

]]> By: Lord Blagger http://blog.makezine.com/2012/01/05/hamster-powered-submarine/#comment-330084 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 19:03:00 +0000 http://blog.makezine.com/?p=124563#comment-330084 http://www.penguins.cl/penguins-peril.htm

]]> By: Alan Dove http://blog.makezine.com/2012/01/05/hamster-powered-submarine/#comment-330083 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:27:00 +0000 http://blog.makezine.com/?p=124563#comment-330083 I smell bullshit. Or do you have a citation? For 19th century whaling ships, blubber rendering was a self-sustaining process. Once a batch of blubber yielded up its oil, whalers were left with a pile of highly flammable solid scraps, which they threw into the fire to continue heating the try-pot for the next batch. I seriously doubt that whole penguins would be a very efficient fuel. At the very least, they’d have to be gutted, which seems like major a waste of effort considering the easy availability of tried-out blubber scraps.

]]> By: Rahere http://blog.makezine.com/2012/01/05/hamster-powered-submarine/#comment-330082 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:11:00 +0000 http://blog.makezine.com/?p=124563#comment-330082 Normal subs started very similarly: the Drebbel and Hunley boats were both human-powered,  and some suggestions of earlier craft were not dissimilar.

]]> By: VRAndy http://blog.makezine.com/2012/01/05/hamster-powered-submarine/#comment-330081 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:06:00 +0000 http://blog.makezine.com/?p=124563#comment-330081 That’s fantastic.
Next someone needs to do a pair of wings.

]]> By: Darryl Pearle http://blog.makezine.com/2012/01/05/hamster-powered-submarine/#comment-330080 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:27:00 +0000 http://blog.makezine.com/?p=124563#comment-330080 This is very irresponsible and shameful. How many idiots are going to abuse hamsters, gerbils etc to play with this idea? What’s the use of it? It’s sick and disgusting that people see animals as things to be used in this way.

]]> By: Matt Richardson http://blog.makezine.com/2012/01/05/hamster-powered-submarine/#comment-330079 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:40:00 +0000 http://blog.makezine.com/?p=124563#comment-330079 Or as one YouTube commenter put it: “To boldly go where no hamster has gone before…”

]]> By: Anonymous http://blog.makezine.com/2012/01/05/hamster-powered-submarine/#comment-330078 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:09:00 +0000 http://blog.makezine.com/?p=124563#comment-330078 That’s one small spin of a wheel for a hamster, but one giant spin of the wheel for hamsterkind!

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