OptimusPrimeBotNASA Administrator Jared Isaacman’s Visit to Ames
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JdeBP"rear sidelights?"
Yes, Virginia. Within living memory it was legal in the U.K. not to have rear sidelights. Side lights only existed at the front.
Instead, at the rear cars had passive red reflector discs made of plastic, that were supposedly illuminated by the headlights of the car behind.
This stopped, for the second hand cars that I had at least, at the turn of the 1970s.
I should also add that the aforementioned "wing mirrors" were mounted on the wings, almost a metre in front of the driver, not on the doorframes. Objects were definitely closer than they appeared.
Don't get me started on the relative who once moved a broken-down car by putting it into gear and cranking the starter handle.
Or the differences between alternators and dynamos. Or the relief of automatic drive belt tensioners.
I'm happy to drive cars with modern features (as long as they work, I am in full control, & they are not touch-operated pictures on a screen away from looking at the road).
I don't bemoan the 21st century *wholesale* because I remember happily driving new cars with *20th* century automation & innovations such as automatic chokes, rear sidelights, multiple-speed and flash-wipe windscreen wipers, rear windscreen heaters, electric windows, motorized wing mirrors, motorized seats, electrically operated climate controls, auto dimming rear view mirrors, adjustable steering columns, & motorized start.
I'm not as old as @cstross and I've had daily use cars that were started with handles, whose wing mirrors had to be adjusted with a ring spanner, whose climate control was a 3 position lever on a big valve under the dash and however hot the engine happened to be, whose windows were not driver operable, & whose main beam headlamp switch was foot-operated next to the clutch.
BioSentinel - 3 Year Mission Milestone
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VIPER Family Day
#MGRU3 #MMOC #Robotics #Roverscape #VIPER
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Philip GillißenKennt jemand gute Video-Kurse / #elearning / #mmoc für Datenanalyse mit #Python? Am Besten für Programmieranfänger*innen und auf Deutsch.
Googlen kann ich selbst, Erfahrungen wären super.
VIPER Vehicle Operational Readiness Test
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djundjilaI'm not sure I've ever seen a picture of these together, so here is mine:
The GEM Micromatic lineup, with all generations AFAIK. If you know of any GEM Micromatic that is not in this picture, please let me know!
From right to left, MMOC gen 1 (no blade bumps), MMOC gen 2 (blade bumps), Clog-Pruf gen 1 (13 big teeth), Clog-Pruf gen 2 “Peerless” (17 small teeth), Flying Wing
#Wetshaving #GEM #GEMRazor #SafetyRazor #SingleEdge #MMOC #OCMM #Ockmock #ClogPruf #ClogPrufPeerless #FlyingWing
