On the set of Junkyard Megawars (Part 1)

In 2003 I was recruited to act as "technical advisor" to the producers of Junkyard Megawars. While there, I filmed a bit of "behind the scenes" stuff. This part is from the morning of the competition day. Later I'll upload some of the racing action.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Junkyard
• Wars
• megawars
• pulsejet
• pulse
• jet
• scrapheap
• challenge

[locouk]

Wow! You had Dick Strawbridge there! LOL Love his mustache..

[xjet]

@locouk Yeah, he's a nice bloke.

[krackanz]

Nice job of the pulse jet Bruce, sounds just like a diesel when it started!!! A man with skill.



[maikerugo]

@CainPire You did read the rest of my comments, right?

[CainPire]

@maikerugo Without war, there is NO freedom. It really is that simple. It's not pretty, or desired, but VERY necessary when needed, like it or not.

[retepvosnul]

Debating semantics is hardly the point here. if you want historical meaning and usage you might want to look into the origins of the word "battle" A latin word that meant "Fighting exercise". Not at all a synonym for war.

the whole WAR naming convention, of course, is used as a way to spice up the title and hype up the show. That goes without saying.

Seeing in how the culture defines the word, I just have some issue with this usage opposed to using, battle, scuffle or even brawl.

[maikerugo]

Anyway, personally I'm a U.S. citizen. I don't always like what goes on. My dissent and non-agreement with some of my fellow country-people isn't a matter of patriotism. Heck, I think the physical inventions of war (planes, tanks, swords, melee combat arts, etc) are fascinating due to the form following function aspect of their designs, but I rather dislike war.

[maikerugo]

Of course the U.S. being war obsessed is something of a Jekyll and Hyde matter.  A symptom of our near purely bi-partisan system combined with propaganda and years of "feel good" run-and-gun, xenophobic, foreigner bad-guy action movies. The bi-partisan system has created something of a polarization (despite there being a wide political spectrum and many parties) and an "us and them" attitude. Many of those action movies further support the "us and them" approach to every categorization.

[maikerugo]

Although historically "battle" is often used to describe one conflict within a war. The phrase, "don't win the battle, but lose the war," is an example.

The addition to "war" in the titles of shows probably is probably a way of spicing up competition titles. That and the word "war" tends to fit more readily in logos and in schedules than "competition" and "challenge" (which are perfectly apt terms for these events in my opinion).

[retepvosnul]

Oddely enough , One american show that had RC robots duking it out was called Battlebots. Allthough both violent terms Battle and war are not the same. battle is often seen as "one on one" fighting. The other "wars" shows, however, are mostly friendly competition, not fights. The chosen name thusly is very odd, unless seen in light of a war/power obsessed nation.