Sunday Things - end-of-the-year edition
posted in Links by Cargo Cult on Sunday December 30 2012
Last article of 2012! At this rate, I need to extend the archives to split things into separate years - fifty articles in just over six months? Not bad going...
Apollo 16 Lunar Rover, in stabilised video - any properly-executed Kubrickian moon-hoax would have taken an anachronistic Steadicam along too. Instead, we must rely on software. via
Arctic Technology - brilliantly icy radio antennas, dishes and radomes courtesy of Christian Houge. See also: Barentsburg for some icy, Soviet, Svalbard coal-mining..
The Space Shuttle - narrated by William Shatner. An hour and twenty minutes of infrastructure and procedure constructed to launch the now-decommissioned Space Shuttles. I've found US governmental stuff to share a certain aesthetic - be it Amtrak, post offices or NASA...
The Most Remote Workplace on Earth - the permanently-manned French-Italian Concordia station in Antarctica, over 3km above sea-level. Temperatures? Below -80ºC during winter. Next closest station? 600km away. And nights lasting months on end... See also.
Bonus Audio Extravaganza corner:
- The Infinite Monkey Cage - how did I completely miss this? Science and comedy from BBC Radio Four, with my usual allergy to Brian Cox relieved thanks to Robin Ince and guests mercilessly taking the mickey.
- Ambient background noise in the International Space Station - in space, no-one can hear you do pretty much anything. I SAID, NO-ONE CAN HEAR YOU DO ANYTHING. NO, ANYTHING. YES. SIGH. via
- Doctor Who theme as you've never heard it before - stick with it. Somehow, it keeps getting worse.
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