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another victim of Moore’s Law
10 responses to “Hopper”
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first fast glimpse, i thought it was some robot lounging around from maker faire, or burning man.
that zep makes for the most awesome ariel perspectives…
… imagine a week long trip, capturing "a day in the life of california" with only the low altitude above perspective!
someone should license a high MP capture system, in an all weather housing, under the zeppelin …to sell images to the people who rent flight time. (i want the rights to that!)… or make a special lens port hole directly in the bottom middle of the cabin, for people to fight over. -
Looks like something in a ScFi movie, waiting to come to life…
Really like all these aerials
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Interesting title, given that it was Moore’s law that actually made the wind tunnels obsolete. Computational Fluid Dynamics technology on digital computers was developed at Stanford, and the first supercomputers developed at AMES as I recall. Pretty much your PC desktop now has the horsepower to go way beyond what these mechanical beasts enabled. Kind of reminds me of a walk down cannery row in Monterey. When I was a boy, the place was hopping with active fishing and canning activity, but today its just a big tourist trap. I remember when the AMES base was secured, and closed. You had to be careful where you went. I use to go sit out under the runway by the bay and eat lunch and watch P-3’s touch and go.
My mother worked at AMES first, and I got my start working next to the 80×60 tunnel (The big beast) working for the chemical research projects office. They had a 1/3 scale shuttle in it, which is why they built the extension, and when they fired that puppy up, the earth would shake. Ah, the good old days of the valley……When greed wasn’t the central motivator, and we all were pursing technlogy for the love of technology.
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Uncanny how much it resembles this:
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