One of my lovely work colleagues was at a meeting in Dundee today so she took some pictures of Scott and Shackleton's RSS Discovery for me. Isn't she beautiful?
/offtop warning I was reading about the Cassini mission to Saturn today, and I imagined future explorers/tourists/whatever on Titan, looking at the Huygens probe, found again after years. "Ooh, aren't these metal plates lovely? How romantic! / Yeah. My little nephew is fascinated with Age of Atom and dieselpunk too. Spacecraft was beautiful those days, not like this technical stuff now, efficiency over aesthetics, bleh..."
That was supposed to be a tiny bit ironical... *g* ...though indeed, I do think it works so. But now, in that case, imagine how ugly would be that future technology?! Or maybe not? ;D Maybe also our ancestors would find some beauty in things we consider ugly?
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Date: 2012-09-01 12:26 pm (UTC)Is there a special term for rigging porn?
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Date: 2012-09-03 09:16 pm (UTC)You too can buy these tasteful gifts here. And there's more....T-shirts! Mugs! Pens! That's Christmas sorted then ;)
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Date: 2012-09-01 09:35 pm (UTC)I was reading about the Cassini mission to Saturn today, and I imagined future explorers/tourists/whatever on Titan, looking at the Huygens probe, found again after years. "Ooh, aren't these metal plates lovely? How romantic! / Yeah. My little nephew is fascinated with Age of Atom and dieselpunk too. Spacecraft was beautiful those days, not like this technical stuff now, efficiency over aesthetics, bleh..."
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