Top of a hill, high stone walls, looks fairly secure, if you're a turtle. Was there a way to range fire down on the enemy? Needs battlements, IMO.
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Top of a hill, high stone walls, looks fairly secure, if you're a turtle. Was there a way to range fire down on the enemy? Needs battlements, IMO.
Far beyond the planets, more than 15 billion miles from home, Voyager 1 still sails through the cosmic dark — a lone messenger from 1977.
Launched when disco ruled the radio, it carries less memory than a single smartphone photo, stores data on an 8-track tape system, and runs on FORTRAN code written before most of today's engineers were born.
Its endurance comes from tough, radiation-hardened parts, a minimalist design with fewer failure points, and redundant systems ready to take over when one falters. The spacecraft also holds the famous Golden Record a time capsule of Earth's music, greetings, and sounds, meant for any distant civilization that might find it.
Keeping it alive isn't easy: every signal takes 22 hours to arrive, so engineers must solve problems without instant feedback, often referencing 50-year-old blueprints and hand-drawn schematics.
Voyager 1 isn't just a machine it's a reminder of what happens when we build for durability, think creatively, and dream beyond our own lifetimes.
It's our postcard to the universe, still in delivery.
You counted your fingers wrong MG, that's boomer tech...
I caught this video too. Great little video.
Sorry, I must have missed my toes.
Ok, who beats T-Rex?
Composition toy in the shape of a globe
Locality: Nuremberg
Date: c. 1860
Material: Wood, paper
Dimensions: H. 26 cm
From the mid 19th-century, small-format globes began to enter the children's playrooms of wealthy families as educational toys. Knowledge of non-European geography developed from the specialised knowledge of tradesmen and travellers into common educational content. Made up of 38 parts, the individual continents of this globe can be studied in detail. Maps of the continents are attached to the tops of the six discs. On the bottom of each disc, are explanatory texts and illustrations that introduce the typical flora and fauna and the human inhabitants of each continent.
Locality: Nuremberg
Date: c. 1860
Material: Wood, paper
Dimensions: H. 26 cm
From the mid 19th-century, small-format globes began to enter the children's playrooms of wealthy families as educational toys. Knowledge of non-European geography developed from the specialised knowledge of tradesmen and travellers into common educational content. Made up of 38 parts, the individual continents of this globe can be studied in detail. Maps of the continents are attached to the tops of the six discs. On the bottom of each disc, are explanatory texts and illustrations that introduce the typical flora and fauna and the human inhabitants of each continent.
Astronaut Frank Culbertson was the only American to witness the 9/11 attacks from space. His historic picture, taken from the ISS, shows a visible smoke plume rising over Manhattan.
"Following the September 11 attacks in New York City, many people were unable to leave Lower Manhattan due to the closure of bridges and tunnels and mass transportation. Within minutes of the first plane hitting the first tower, multiple fireboats from the New York City Fire Department rushed to the scene. The United States Coast Guard coordinated a large convoy of merchant ships, tugboats, and ferries to evacuate the stranded and injured victims.
More than 150 different vessels and 600 sailors helped evacuate victims and delivered supplies in the days following the attacks. According to commandant of the Coast Guard James Loy, the mass evacuation of more than 500,000 civilians following the attacks "moved more people from the island than the 1940 evacuation of Allied troops from France." "
More than 150 different vessels and 600 sailors helped evacuate victims and delivered supplies in the days following the attacks. According to commandant of the Coast Guard James Loy, the mass evacuation of more than 500,000 civilians following the attacks "moved more people from the island than the 1940 evacuation of Allied troops from France." "
Very cool. Education is a wonderful thing.