Rocket Science

10 responses to “Rocket Science”

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   PhOtOnQuAnTiQuE

   Mar 14, 2008 at 6:50 am

   Don t know if you "swa" it. But i thought you would love this one too =)

   Black Swan from aeroculus

   Joyeux anniversaire M.Steve ; )

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   jurvetson

   Mar 14, 2008 at 3:45 pm

   fantastique! Taleb explained the Black Swan hypothesis while standing on one leg at TED…. =)

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   jitze

   Mar 15, 2008 at 7:50 am

   ? Do I detect an old tube chassis in that picture, and if so are we talking nostalgia (in which case you are not only forgiven, but encouraged) or are we talking membership in the flat earth society – which would not be cool for a rocketeer.

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   jurvetson

   Mar 15, 2008 at 4:07 pm

   Good eye jitze! And yes, as you posit in your note above, it is a Tektronix module, a hand-assembled work of beauty. I saw a very similar one recently that purportedly flew on Apollo (a tube ‘scope perhaps to diagnose some in-flight repairs…=) Did you use one for ground support?

   And, they are even better in action. Here is my son’s lab, where he has turned a vintage storage scope into a Etch-A-Sketch using the vertical and horizontal adjustment knobs:

   

   The storage scope is a particular marvel, storing a screen full of image data before solid state memory chips, or even discrete transistors… just a handful of vaccuum tubes… (details)

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   jitze

   Mar 15, 2008 at 7:18 pm

   Did I ever use this kind of stuff ?- sure – way back when –
   

   This was around when the small "mini-watt" tubes were still fairly new – before that the tubes tended to be "bottles" and "octal base" referred to the style of plug-in base rather than a notation.

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   Erik Charlton

   Mar 16, 2008 at 3:48 pm

   Glad you liked the wine!!! And totally thrilled it matches the (76MM? 98MM?) casing…It makes me think the grower is into High Power =). This could not just be coincidence =)

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   Todd Huffman

   Mar 16, 2008 at 6:29 pm

   Jesus Christ that is a Big Motor!

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   paranoidroid

   Mar 17, 2008 at 6:13 am

   Nice Steve! I just witnessed my friend get his L3 today at TCC on the same motor. You realize that all the vendors will loan you the casing instead of buying it right? I prefer to buy research-capable casings in that size since the only time I’ll plunk down $300 for a commercial motor will be for a one-time cert 🙂

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   delitefulimage

   Mar 20, 2008 at 2:43 am

   
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    eake215

    Apr 28, 2012 at 3:39 pm

    Teddy an astronaut

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