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Aug. 31st, 2012 10:19 pm
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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?

Date: 2012-08-31 10:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] esmerelda-t.livejournal.com
*blinks* Was the sky that colour in Dundee? That's a bit worrying!

Date: 2012-08-31 10:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eglantine-br.livejournal.com
When my son was little he became confused by sepia photos. He asked me why everything was brown in the past...

Date: 2012-08-31 10:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] esmerelda-t.livejournal.com
An excellent question! I could quite believe though that it's not sepia, just Dundee. :P

Date: 2012-09-02 08:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] anteros-lmc.livejournal.com
*nods* Yes Dundee is always sepia!

Date: 2012-09-02 08:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] anteros-lmc.livejournal.com
Hehe! Daughter asked something similar once - why weren't "the olden days" in colour? :}

Date: 2012-09-01 12:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mylodon.livejournal.com
Aw, what a beauty!

Is there a special term for rigging porn?

Date: 2012-09-03 10:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] charliecochrane.livejournal.com
LOL That makes me think of Round the Horne, of course...

Date: 2012-09-03 09:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] anteros-lmc.livejournal.com
Right on cue, look what Portsmouth Historic Dockyard released today...



You too can buy these tasteful gifts here. And there's more....T-shirts! Mugs! Pens! That's Christmas sorted then ;)

Date: 2012-09-04 12:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] charliecochrane.livejournal.com
This is going to cost me a fortune...look at those T shirts!

Date: 2012-09-05 09:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] anteros-lmc.livejournal.com
Heh. Thought those might be right up your street!

Date: 2012-09-01 09:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aletheiafelinea.livejournal.com
/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..."
Edited Date: 2012-09-01 09:36 pm (UTC)

Date: 2012-09-02 08:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] anteros-lmc.livejournal.com
Very true. Technology seems to assume beauty as time passes.

Date: 2012-09-02 08:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aletheiafelinea.livejournal.com
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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