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thedevilsrain

every single translator: get his ass

fluffmugger

Hungarians: What ass?

fuck-yeah-classic-monsters

How do you feel about Pacific Rim? You never post about it.

I never saw it nor did I have interest in it.

So it's Evangelion/Gundam Wing but with a beefy man from the ocean, that's what a quick google told me.

Cool if that's your thing, I'm sure you can say the same with Toho stuff, but I'm just picky as hell about films.

alanmorlock

Deeply sad.

mekagojira3k

Pondering my orb on Planet X

ex0skeletal-undead

Crypt by Sherbakov Stanislav

This artist on Instagram

hiddenlizard

othersystems

fivepoisonskid

hercules in the haunted world mario bava 1961

sandmandaddy69

woefully-undercaffeinated

This does not even begin to cover the weirdness of cathode ray televisions.

They are literally particle accelerators that you point at your face.

And for eighty years, Americans' favorite thing to do was turn them on and stare at them for hours.

If you overcharge them, they emit gamma radiation.

Servicing them is like disarming a bomb -- their capacitors are enormous and are usually charged to hundreds or thousands of volts, and most of them have no bleed system that drains that charge, meaning that they can still be dangerous months or years after the last time they were powered up. A discharge can not only electrocute you, it can cause tools to melt or explode.

A black-and-white cathode ray TV driven by an unmodulated analog signal is theoretically capable of resolution that would require a microscope to perceive.

yesterdaysprint

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, March 8, 1904

cinnamonbreads

street art, folk art on houses, everything like that is so important in a world where we aren’t really allowed to belong in our own towns. this is property that belongs to landlords and big corporations! we’re just consumers and renters, nothing belongs to us! we used to live in villages where our neighbors, family, and friends had their own unique craft shops that couldn’t be easily replaced after their death. we used to decorate every corner with art to make our world nicer to be in but to also prove people live here, not just consumers, not just renters. it’s in these ways that our humanity is being denied, as creativity has been apart of us before we could even count as being biologically human. remember that!

alanmorlock

Back then you just deadass had lords. You wouldn’t own shit then either.

zacksnydrs-deactivated20161118

mostlysignssomeportents

NASA's Lunar Orbiter pics from 1967/8 were deliberately fuzzed and downsampled to hide US spying capabilities

In 1967, the Lunar Orbiter missions sent back exciting – but grainy and low-rez – photos of the moon’s surface.

But it turns out that the Orbiters’ photos were actually super-high-rez, shot on 70mm film and robotically developed inside the orbiters, with the negs raster-scanned at 200 lines/mm and transmitted to ground stations using an undisclosed lossless analog image-compression technology. These were stored on tapes read by fridge-sized $300,000 Ampex FR-900 drives. These images were printed out at 40’ x 54’ so the Apollo astronauts could stroll over them and look for a landing spot.

But these images were not revealed to the public because NASA feared that doing so would also reveal the US’s spy satellite capabilities. Instead, NASA deliberately downrezzed and fuzzed the images that the public got to see.

Ryan Smith tells the amazing story of the preservationists who rescued the images off of disintegrating FR-900 magnetic tapes starting in 2007, under JPL’s Nancy Evans, who set up her team in an abandoned McDonald’s building and dubbed the project “McMoon.”

The McMoon team refurbished salvaged FR-900 drives, homebrewed a digitizer system, and painstaking recovered the 2GB/image files that the system generated. Evans’s team has recovered 2,000 images from 1,500 tapes, all in the public domain and available for download on Moonviews.com.

https://boingboing.net/2018/06/16/ampex-fr-900-drives.html

argumate

2GB images in 1967, jesus christ

flight-to-mars

so-i-did-this-thing

Hey if you had to replace the entire cast of The Terror with the Muppets and you only got to keep one human actor, who would it be and why?

It is funny to me to retain the one character who is the most muppet-looking, that being Sir John.

But at the same time, the thought of Jared Harris playing Crozier *exactly* the same whilst everyone else is a muppet (and occasionally has musical numbers) brings me great joy.