#space autism

[mscaptmarvel]

She just wants to share her special interest with her best friend!!!

Avengers (2013) #17

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"Saturn V F-1 engines at Rocketdyne", dry pastel

Drawing I made 2 years ago, depicting the inside of the Rocketdyne factory while the Saturn V Apollo rocket's engines were being built.

Why did i draw this picture? More about the F-1 engines below!! They're a lost craft!!

The techniques used to built them have been lost with the engineers that have passed away in the 60 years since then, with nobody to pass them on. We have documentation, but not all the expertise. The engines required incredibly skilled welders, and practically everything was done by hand

this guy in blue isn't to scale! he's supposed to be the smallest person in the picture, with perspective (oops). The current SLS rocket powering the Artemis program uses surplus 1980s RS-25 engines meant for the Space Shuttle rockets, repurposed, modified, and stacked to give enough thrust.

The Rocketdyne F-1s made use of the labor of WW2 era engineers and welders, so absolutely no computerized manufacturing in sight

These guys are to scale. The colors used are my own artistic interpretation, and the drawing is based on a real photo from inside the factory :D I think they are still the most powerful rocket engines EVER built. They are absolutely enormous, and the Saturn V used five of them

Fran Blanche (incredible youtube channel about old technology) posted extensive videos about the Saturn V rockets and the F1 engines that allowed them to take off. Her work is amazing, her youtube channel is an absolute gold mine if you're interested in anything 1960s-1970s. Trans legend also

I can't find the original reference picture. But have this one for scale:

And here's a cool article that explains more about thz insane engineering of those engines, and why it's a marvel:

Day 8: The Lost Engineering Marvel of Rocketdyne’s F-1 Engines

As we advance our technology ever forward, you would think that remaking a 50-year old design should be easy; however, things are not quite…

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autism

[tucbilo]

My Thrawn Commentary #2

Broke this up into 2 for clarity and also because as I was browsing through my screenshot folder and some passages I just rewritten for lulz (mainly stupid thranto shipping). Boi, that was fun hehe Part 1

[eldrytchcryptid]

one of the greatest joys in life is rediscovering a childhood game, and finding out over a decade later, phones are now strong enough to have the mobile game version you can buy and play to pass the time whenever you want

the game in question:

please be my friend if you know which game this is

[clyde49]

Whatever the actual canon relationship or lack of relationship that exists between Toonami's short lived original host and long running current host, one thing is certain to me-

TOM definitely inherited Moltar's space autism

[mscaptmarvel]

Space Camp 🚀✨

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