Building the World’s Largest Ship (in 76 seconds) (por Maersk Line)
Aldous Huxley: Las dictaduras tecnológicas futuras (1958)
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London Underground construction
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Apollo Drop Testing
Drop testing for the Apollo capsule’s return to earth. Cool guys do look at explosions, apparently. (vía 14 | From NASA’s Archives, 50 Amazing Photos Of The Apollo Moon Missions | Co.Design: business innovation design)
Inside Project LOLA
Test subject sitting at the controls: Project LOLA or Lunar Orbit and Landing Approach was a simulator built at Langley to study problems related to landing on the lunar surface. It was a complex project that cost nearly $2 million dollars. (vía 13 | From NASA’s Archives, 50 Amazing Photos Of The Apollo Moon Missions | Co.Design: business innovation design)
Hand-Painted Simulation
Artists used paintbrushes and airbrushes to recreate the lunar surface on each of the four models comprising the LOLA simulator. (vía 12 | From NASA’s Archives, 50 Amazing Photos Of The Apollo Moon Missions | Co.Design: business innovation design)
LOLA Simulator
This was a 20-foot sphere which simulated for the astronauts what the surface of the moon would look like from 200 miles up. Project LOLA or Lunar Orbit and Landing Approach was a simulator built at Langley to study problems related to landing on the lunar surface. (vía 11 | From NASA’s Archives, 50 Amazing Photos Of The Apollo Moon Missions | Co.Design: business innovation design)
Tunnel Vision
The MORL-Saturn IB launch combination undergoes aerodynamic testing in the 8-Foot Transonic Tunnel in October 1965.” Published in James R. Hansen, Spaceflight Revolution: NASA Langley Research Center From Sputnik to Apollo, (Washington: NASA, 1995), p. 302. (vía 10 | From NASA’s Archives, 50 Amazing Photos Of The Apollo Moon Missions | Co.Design: business innovation design)
Night Practice
Lunar landing at night at Lunar Landing Research Facility (LLRF). (vía 9 | From NASA’s Archives, 50 Amazing Photos Of The Apollo Moon Missions | Co.Design: business innovation design)
Test subject wearing the pressurized “space” suit for the Reduced Gravity Walking Simulator located at the Lunar Landing Facility. The purpose of this simulator was to study the subject while walking, jumping or running. (vía 4 | From NASA’s Archives, 50 Amazing Photos Of The Apollo Moon Missions | Co.Design: business innovation design)
Lunar Rover, Driving School
Two members of the prime crew of the Apollo 15 lunar landing mission collect soil samples during a simulation of lunar surface extravehicular activity in the Taos, New Mexico, area. Astronaut James B. Irwin, lunar module pilot, is using a scoop. Astronaut David R. Scott (right), commander, is holding a sample bag. On the left is a Lunar Roving Vehicle trainer. (vía 44 | From NASA’s Archives, 50 Amazing Photos Of The Apollo Moon Missions | Co.Design: business innovation design)
Prime crew for the Apollo VII mission practice water egress procedures with full-scale boilerplate model of their spacecraft. In the water at right is Astronaut Edward H. White foreground and Astronaut Roger B. Chaffee. In raft near the spacecraft is Astronaut Virgil I. Grissom. NASA swimmers are in the water to assist in the practice session that took place at Ellington AFB, near the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston. (vía 16 | From NASA’s Archives, 50 Amazing Photos Of The Apollo Moon Missions | Co.Design: business innovation design)
Here’s a great DIY method to copy a vinyl record, making a copy that you can actually play on a turntable.
The German website Zeit.de had this article up in German, however it’s now unavailable, and only available via archive.org.
Here it is in it’s full form:
Step 1 Nail together four 36.5cm-pieces of wood to create a frame and put it on a glass plate. Seal off the edges using caulking, and make sure everything is completely airtight.
Step 2 Take the record that you want to copy and put it into the box, making sure that the side that you want to copy is facing upwards. Squeeze in some caulking or insert a dowel to mark where the hole in the record is.
Step 3 Mix silicone rubber (Smooth On OOMOO 30 or OOMOO 25) for about 3 minutes..
Step 4 Pour the silicone rubber mixture into the mold. start from one corner, and fill the mold until it is about 5mm deep. Make sure the that surface is even, and let it dry overnight.
Step 5 Peel off the silicone from the cast and cut off the excess.
Step 6 Pour on some casting resin (eg Smooth On Task #4) on top of the silicone cast.
Step 7 Make sure that you don’t have anything spill over the round form. You can also brush off any air bubbles that might occur.
Step 8 Carefully loosen the plate from the silicone form. Using a drill press, bore a hole through the center of the plate (this doesn’t need to be done if you used the appropriate sized dowel).
Finished. You can keep using the silicone form and make multiple copies. Definitely a darn fun DIY project.
via synthgear
