Was just watching the Andor Star Wars series last week. Probably the artists took some inspiration from the soviet control rooms.
A collection of Soviet control rooms (2017)
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#12I wonder why the operators are always wearing lab coats and butcher's hats. Are they afraid they'll get hair in the switches?
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#13What's the sun-shaped thing in photo #2?
I think it's a graphical representation of the RBMK control rods [1]. It's also in the last two images. These are replaceable control rods that were laid out in a circular pattern in the RBMK class reactors. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RBMK
It's not nearly enough rods for an RBMK. Those were huge. And they had nothing outside the circle. Probably another type of nuclear facility. Maybe a medical isotope reactor?
The second last photo looks like an RBMK or at least something that size.
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#14Was just watching the Andor Star Wars series last week. Probably the artists took some inspiration from the soviet control rooms.
I have to say, the control room of the ship crashed on Kenari was stunning.
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#15I wonder why the operators are always wearing lab coats and butcher's hats. Are they afraid they'll get hair in the switches?
I’m not sure what these rooms control, but it’s possible the control room is simply part of a greater facility that has a mandate for this. Which makes sense, since there’s something to control here that may be more sensitive / dangerous than the control room itself.
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#16Can you even imagine how relaxing it would be to have the same interface to your systems, every day, with all the parts in one physical location and never moving? Learn it once, then nothing changes for years and years, or if it does it's usually adding on, not replacing or re-arranging existing stuff? Man, that would be nice.
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#17I wonder why the operators are always wearing lab coats and butcher's hats. Are they afraid they'll get hair in the switches?
Nuclear power plant. Workers would wear those uniforms while on site so that they don't track any stray radioactive particles home on their street clothes.
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#18The biggest problem with the Soviet Union was Brezhnev not being able to keep with his economic reforms after 1974.
Seeing Russia nowadays it is sometimes hard to believe that once they were the second economy in the world, before being removed from this post by Japan.
Had they enacted Chinese style reforms they could have avoided the whole disastrous 90s
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#19I wonder why the operators are always wearing lab coats and butcher's hats. Are they afraid they'll get hair in the switches?
Probably because nuclear plant workers were thought of as lab workers, and those wore these uniforms as well. Not sure if it was also a precaution against hair and threads falling into critical equipment.
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