2013-05-07
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Berlin airport fiasco an embarrassment for Germans: “Delays to the Berlin Brandenburg International Airport have become so endemic that even a Legoland display in nearby Hamburg pokes fun at the problems plaguing the airfield.” Photograph: Maurizio Gambarini for AFP/Getty.
2013-04-16
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Blueprints for a rocket in the Soyuz family.
This post is an inverted version of this image, via
2013-03-08
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The internal view of an emergency water cistern in San Francisco, by Robin Scheswohl. Photograph via Burrito Justice, which includes more information on the emergency cistern system, along with more engineering photography from around the Bay Area.
2013-01-09
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Behind the scenes: when the Storm topology detects that a query has reached sufficient popularity, it connects to a Thrift API that dispatches the query to Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service, and then polls Mechanical Turk for a response. ”
2012-11-29
2012-11-15
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Atlantis shrink-wrapped with 1,500 square metres of plastic (photo by RedHuber).
2012-05-27
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Scientists study the phases of the moon on lunar models in preparation for an eventual manned flight to moon.
Love those circles-on-globes. Photographer: Fritz Goro.
2012-04-08
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“Avions à décollage et atterrissage verticaux” (via balnibarbi, Mondorama 2000)
Those planes in full: the Hawker Siddeley HS.141, Canadair CL-84 “Dynavert”, Hawker Harrier, and de Havilland Canada DHC-7. Only the last two entered production, but the concept used by the CL-84 is similar to that of the Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey, now in use by US armed forces.
2012-01-07
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stml:
The red structure is the remains of the original Greathead shield used to tunnel the Waterloo & City. It was left in place in 1898 and rediscovered in 1987.
Nice tube geekery there.
