2013-05-22
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Voyager space probe diagram, posted by x-ray delta one (via balnibarbi)
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scienceblogs via chrisoshea via iamdanw:
I LOVE this analogue moon landing simulator!
“This simulator was designed to provide a pilot with a detailed visual encounter with the lunar surface; the machine consisted primarily of a cockpit, a closed-circuit TV system, and four large murals or scale models representing portions of the lunar surface as seen from various altitudes. The pilot in the cockpit moved along a track past these murals which would accustom him to the visual cues for controlling a spacecraft in the vicinity of the moon. Unfortunately, such a simulation — although great fun and quite aesthetic — was not helpful because flight in lunar orbit posed no special problems other than the rendezvous with the LEM, which the device did not simulate. Not long after the end of Apollo, the expensive machine was dismantled.”
2013-05-21
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Untitled, 2008 by David Klamen(via darksilenceinsuburbia, notational)
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Architecture and Signing- Pictograms, from the British Rail corporate identity manual, December 1985.
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Do not remove this page, from the British Rail corporate identity manual.
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Howardena Pindell, Video Drawings: Baseball, 1973-1977, C-print (of video screen photograph with ink overlay) (via bluecatsredsox, notational)
