Object Zero
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Doer of the difficult. Champion for talent. Inventor of things. Builder of Machines. North Sea O&G, Nuclear Power, Subsea, Heavy Manufacturing.
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Nuclear Regulators NukeCorp: Good Morning. We want to move a barrel of stuff from here… A. To there… B. Regulator: What if someone shoots the barrel with a tomahawk missile whilst you are moving it? NukeCorp: But why would? I mean who even? Are you serious? Regulator: We’re going to have to see empirical data. Can we see your tomahawk missile barrel-strike test procedure? I presume you have one? NukeCorp: 😖
Object Zero543,535 Aufrufe • vor 8 Monaten
Engineering is the highest form of Art Below, a 60 year old Class 37 Locomotive caresses the topography of the Scottish Highlands yesterday afternoon. There are people out there who think art means the painting or drawing of these things, well there is some truth in that. But drawing these things before they even exist, is how engineers design them. Engineering means having the creativity to imagine and draw the thing out before it exists then also having the determination to actually go and build it, not as a dead ornament, but as a living thing that improves the lives of real people. You can then enjoy the satisfaction that you created it. You don’t create these things from nothing, but from your own efforts. If someone comes along later and paints a nice painting of your work, that’s great. But that’s not the highest form of Art (and we all know this tbh). Railway locomotives were invented and developed in Britain, part of this is down to the diverse geology of the British Isles which form an ancient uplifted geological outcrop that has been aggressively weathered by both the North Atlantic Ocean and repeated ice age glaciation. But mostly it was down to the ingenuity and tenacity of the people who got it done. All of modernity (which is built on industrial mechanisation) flows from these hills and the people who lived there back then. There’s something deeply spiritual about driving a train through these hills. In one sense the first locomotive was a glorified camp fire on wheels, in another sense it was our first step toward the stars.
Object Zero80,748 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten
To measure the power of the early nuclear tests, an ultra high speed camera system was developed capable of 15m frames per second. Interestingly, it turned out the camera’s precise control circuit was the best way to trigger the explosive lens of subsequent bomb designs, including Fat Man. The inventor was a guy called Harold (Doc) Edgerton and the photographic technology Edgerton invented was spark gap switches. These switches allow for simultaneous parallel triggering with less than 10 nanoseconds of jitter… in the 1940’s. The best solutions are often found in the most adjacent problems. Sometimes you just need to understand a lot of seemingly very different problems and every once in a while the differences collapse.
Object Zero78,070 Aufrufe • vor 10 Monaten
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