Some photos remind me of the MYST series..
Inside NASA’s Mysterious Rubber Room
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#122min youtube film from Saturn V days -reporter takes the slide.
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#13It's still not clear to me at all why the first room is rubberized. There's an escape slide, a rubber room and the actual chamber that's blast-proof. Why does the middle room need to be rubberized?
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#14> An exploding Saturn V was calculated to have the power of a small nuclear bomb
So all you need is a lead-lined refrigerator
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are other photos by other photographers of these same rooms -- http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/04/dismantling-the-s... Edit: Same room at the other launch pad, 39A vs 39B. Both had identical blast rooms per the article.
Looking at those just makes me even more suspicious. Compare http://scriptunasimages.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/wscriptu... to http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/shuttle041311/s_d1... Perhaps things were repainted, but then why does the handle on the door work in the opposite direction? EDIT: Also, the "emergency egress route" has changed direction? In the Atlantic image, it is pointing "up" the door, indicat…
My reading is that when the door's closed you don't need the sign at all since if you can see it, you're already in the blast room. The left-pointing arrow seems like the better way to do it to me, when viewing the open door from the hall (though either is probably perfectly clear). The two sites being built by different contractors seems enough to cover the differences in painting/finishing touches (unless there's a standard open/close direction for vault doors, I wouldn't know :) ).
But then, "raytraced" never occured to me looking at the photos, just "taken by an actual good camera, not a phone, with a fast lens so that it can take good indoors photos without flash."
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#16I'm not sure if it's the camera or the lighting, but these images all look suspiciously raytraced to me.
The lighting in the first few photos looks really strange, but the rest look fine, I think.
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#17Very cool! And, if you like this, you'd probably also enjoy learning about the Plutonium Pit storage areas at the Pantex plant: http://cryptome.org/pantex-nukes.htm http://www.texasradiation.org/pantex.html http://www.princeton.edu/~ota/disk1/1993/9320/932010.PDF
From your second link: On February 2, warning lights on a radiation warning system failed due to previous software modifications to the fail-safe system. It was discovered that no records of the revisions to the software were ever required or maintained, so the direct cause of the malfunction was unclear. I have no words.
You're surprised that people write buggy software without discipline?
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#18"Rubber Room", for me, at least, conjures up a whole different set of images:
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/350/h...
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#19I'm not sure if it's the camera or the lighting, but these images all look suspiciously raytraced to me.
I believe the comparison images are from the other pad, so some differences are not surprising.
The original images look fine to me - they just look like they were taken with a SLR in low light, which may give a slightly odd/unusual feel to them.
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#202min youtube film from Saturn V days -reporter takes the slide. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jx2BobKku-c
That's James Burke, in the years before he created his excellent "Connections" and "The Day The Universe Changed" series. Highly recommended - I watched every episode when they came out starting in the late 1970s.