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prokopetz · 5 hours
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Cheaply made android whose actuators are wired up in series rather than in parallel, so every time they stub their toe the entire left side of their body stops working.
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LaRue Burbank, mathematician and computer, is just one of the many women who were instrumental to NASA missions.
4 Little Known Women Who Made Huge Contributions to NASA
Women have always played a significant role at NASA and its predecessor NACA, although for much of the agency’s history, they received neither the praise nor recognition that their contributions deserved. To celebrate Women’s History Month – and properly highlight some of the little-known women-led accomplishments of NASA’s early history – our archivists gathered the stories of four women whose work was critical to NASA’s success and paved the way for future generations.
LaRue Burbank: One of the Women Who Helped Land a Man on the Moon
LaRue Burbank was a trailblazing mathematician at NASA. Hired in 1954 at Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory (now NASA’s Langley Research Center), she, like many other young women at NACA, the predecessor to NASA, had a bachelor's degree in mathematics. But unlike most, she also had a physics degree. For the next four years, she worked as a "human computer," conducting complex data analyses for engineers using calculators, slide rules, and other instruments. After NASA's founding, she continued this vital work for Project Mercury.
In 1962, she transferred to the newly established Manned Spacecraft Center (now NASA’s Johnson Space Center) in Houston, becoming one of the few female professionals and managers there.  Her expertise in electronics engineering led her to develop critical display systems used by flight controllers in Mission Control to monitor spacecraft during missions. Her work on the Apollo missions was vital to achieving President Kennedy's goal of landing a man on the Moon.
Eilene Galloway: How NASA became… NASA
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Eilene Galloway wasn't a NASA employee, but she played a huge role in its very creation. In 1957, after the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, Senator Richard Russell Jr. called on Galloway, an expert on the Atomic Energy Act, to write a report on the U.S. response to the space race. Initially, legislators aimed to essentially re-write the Atomic Energy Act to handle the U.S. space goals. However, Galloway argued that the existing military framework wouldn't suffice – a new agency was needed to oversee both military and civilian aspects of space exploration. This included not just defense, but also meteorology, communications, and international cooperation.
Her work on the National Aeronautics and Space Act ensured NASA had the power to accomplish all these goals, without limitations from the Department of Defense or restrictions on international agreements. Galloway is even to thank for the name "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", as initially NASA was to be called “National Aeronautics and Space Agency” which was deemed to not carry enough weight and status for the wide-ranging role that NASA was to fill.
Barbara Scott: The “Star Trek Nerd” Who Led Our Understanding of the Stars
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A self-described "Star Trek nerd," Barbara Scott's passion for space wasn't steered toward engineering by her guidance counselor. But that didn't stop her!  Fueled by her love of math and computer science, she landed at Goddard Spaceflight Center in 1977.  One of the first women working on flight software, Barbara's coding skills became instrumental on missions like the International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) and the Thermal Canister Experiment on the Space Shuttle's STS-3.  For the final decade of her impressive career, Scott managed the flight software for the iconic Hubble Space Telescope, a testament to her dedication to space exploration.
Dr. Claire Parkinson: An Early Pioneer in Climate Science Whose Work is Still Saving Lives
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Dr. Claire Parkinson's love of math blossomed into a passion for climate science. Inspired by the Moon landing, and the fight for civil rights, she pursued a graduate degree in climatology.  In 1978, her talents landed her at Goddard, where she continued her research on sea ice modeling. But Parkinson's impact goes beyond theory.  She began analyzing satellite data, leading to a groundbreaking discovery: a decline in Arctic sea ice coverage between 1973 and 1987. This critical finding caught the attention of Senator Al Gore, highlighting the urgency of climate change.
Parkinson's leadership extended beyond research.  As Project Scientist for the Aqua satellite, she championed making its data freely available. This real-time information has benefitted countless projects, from wildfire management to weather forecasting, even aiding in monitoring the COVID-19 pandemic. Parkinson's dedication to understanding sea ice patterns and the impact of climate change continues to be a valuable resource for our planet.
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yodaprod · 8 hours
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Juli Phone answering machine (1970)
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zman80 · 23 hours
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The New Millennium in your Hands
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mindblowingscience · 22 hours
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Scientists from NTU Singapore have developed ultra-thin semiconductor fibers that can be woven into fabrics, turning them into smart wearable electronics. Their work has been published in the journal Nature. To create reliably functioning semiconductor fibers, they must be flexible and without defects for stable signal transmission. However, existing manufacturing methods cause stress and instability, leading to cracks and deformities in the semiconductor cores, negatively impacting their performance and limiting their development.
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Samsung C3322 (2011)
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Nintendo: Game Boy Color Print Ads (2000)
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poweredinpeace · 3 days
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Proverbs 17:16 Why is there money in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, seeing he has no understanding?
Lying about the light is not a shiny city on hill its darkness its a place where the lowest nature of human behaviour is touted as righteousness.
The lurking place of every unclean wicked spirit that controls thoughts and words through fear and oppression in the name of a more perfect union.
A place where good people are hunted as sport where their cries of mercy are twisted into sedition a place where the leaders rape the people of dignity their possession throwing them into a debtors prison for objecting all in the name of Democracy!
2 Corinthians 11:14 And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light.
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📠 and 📟please?
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yodaprod · 2 days
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Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 (1996)
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lizardsfromspace · 17 hours
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Whenever someone talks about the Seismic Shift In Our Culture brought on by VR and the metaverse all I can think of is that bit in Dan Olson's Decentraland video where he documents a war over how many thousands of people use it...and then points out even the most generous estimate is equivalent to the numbers on moribund legacy MMOs. The amount of coverage is just wildly disproportionate with how many people ever use it. By any objective standard nobody is in the metaverse*, and business guys are talking about how we've got to sacrifice all real spaces for the BOUNDLESS GROWTH of the metaverse
*which is probably why metaverse types like to claim normal multiplayer games are part of it. No we're not failing Roblox and Fortnite are totally part of the metaverse
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Auto! My Panpour! I thought of old tech when I think of him, since he is named after my childhood panpour that I adore dearly :3
🌊🐒🌊, 🐒 x 🐒, 🌊🐒🌊 ☆
Proship, dni! Or read my byf
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The first guy to entrust his life to a parachute was Louis-Sébastien Lenormand, who was interested in parachutes as a way to escape from buildings that had caught fire. He first leapt out of a tree with a couple of umbrellas to see if that would work. It worked well enough, I guess, because then he tried jumping from the Montpellier Observatory. A nineteenth-century postcard artist envisioned it looking very Mary Poppinsy:
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{Buy me a coffee} {WHF} {Medium} {Looking Through the Past}
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