Sunday Things - Weekend edition
posted in Links by Cargo Cult on Sunday March 3 2013
Multiple links from readers this week! Cheers muchly.
Railway tunnel construction beneath Grand Central Terminal, New York - New York has extended upwards, and downwards. Now they're extending it more. via phuzz
Preventing "Sick" Spaceships - humans are disgusting. So human spaceflight has to deal with mould, dust mites and grapefruit-sized blobs of dirty condensed water floating behind instrument panels. Erk.
Russian jellyfish of the White Sea - just one of Earth's branches of alien-lookalike lifeforms, here find the jellyfish.
Bikers visit Kadykchan, Siberia - are there any post-Soviet exploration games with motorbikes in? Seems like a gap in the market. More photos of the place here and here. via elel
Bonus Who-Invented-The-Tablet-Computer-Anyway corner:
- Atari ST Pad - prototype 'pentop computer', with the wholly-unsuited-for-mobile-usage TOS/GEM as the operating system. BUT AT LEAST IT'S A REAL COMPUTER.
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Posted by elel at 6:11AM, Sunday March 3 2013
Cool, I'm glad you liked the pictures! Your post about the hygiene of spacecraft was fascinating - it must have been shocking finding that much water just sitting around waiting to mess something up. I wonder what they did with it then?