The defacto standard for medium format cameras is the Hasselblad. So it shouldn’t be surprising that NASA turned to them. But the article is an intesting adn sometimes indepth look at how they where used.
The date was 20 July 1969. It is already a quarter of a century ago. Most middleaged people still remember exactly [...]
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The Swedish crisis had strikingly similar origins to the American one, and its neighbors, Norway and Finland, were hobbled to the point of needing a government bailout to escape the morass as well.
Financial deregulation in the 1980s fed a frenzy of real estate lending by Sweden’s banks, which did not worry enough about whether the [...]
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Encarta prides itself on being a good one stop source of knowledge for families. And as one of the Microsoft products it has been used quite a bit, but never really caught on. As such, I never really used it and when doing searches I can’t think of a time that the answer [...]
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Towards the end of World War II the staff of SS officer Hans Kammler made a significant breakthrough in anti-gravity.
From a secret base built in the Antarctic, the first Nazi spaceships were launched in late ‘45 to found the military base Schwarze Sonne (Black Sun) on the dark side of the Moon. This base was [...]
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During war time government resources get directed at problems with amazing results. Below is a case in point.
Inside the amazing cave city that housed 25,000 Allied troops under German noses in WWI
The wax is still melted on to the chalk pillar which served as an Easter Sunday altar for the men of the Suffolk Regiment [...]
Now, I consider myself an intelligent person. Typos and grammar mistakes aside, I generally know my facts. Or at least I try to make sure I know my facts. But certain things escape me. For example this below story, I would of never thought to second guess the Smithsonian on this subject…
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As a second Generation Irish-American I am proud to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. As the one day I can celebrate my Irish Heritage with most the country, if not officially, at least in spirit. Here is a little info about St. Patrick’s Day and why we celebrate.
Saint Patrick’s Day (Irish: Lá ’le Pádraig or [...]
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Growing up I jumped from computer to computer for a number of years. At times working on multiple systems at once. In no particular order I was on computers from Apple, Atari, Commodore, Colecovision Adam, TI 99/4A* and oh yeah the Trash 80 for dos. In that time I wrote some basic [...]
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Imagine a tunnel more than ten storeys underground, a hundred years old, bricklined, wet, and completely inaccessible save by descending through a narrow slit in its ceiling thirty feet above the floor, and then returning up the same rope you came down.Now imagine that this tunnel flows into Niagara Falls, emerging behind the pummeling curtain [...]
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“Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.” –Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949
“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” –Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943
“I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure [...]
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