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Watching lasers cleaning stuff is one of the most satisfying things ever
I wish I could go through life with one of these lasers that can remove any substance from most surfaces. Accumulated dirt, steel rust, bronze patinas, plastic residues, oil… anything. Above you can see oxide being remove from a steel plate (source video) but check out this collection I just made. So satisfying.
Rubber residue from tire mold
Patina from bronze eagle
Paint from car
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Residue from titanium nitride-coated molds
Dirt from stainless steel
Pencil from paper
Ink from anilox roller
Rubber from steel
Dirt from marble
Area specific removal
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Park visitor challenges Gaston to pushup contest, gets destroyed
The Smithsonian now lets you see 40,000 pieces of art online
The Smithsonian vowed that it would open up its digital collection by early 2015, and it’s clearly not wasting time as it delivers on that promise. Both the institution’s Freer and Sackler galleries have posted over 40,000 pieces of global art online…
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NASA High-Res Photos Organized Into A Huge Creative NASA Pack (First Of A Series)
If you are like me and just LOVE space images this is going to be some very sweet news. Creative Reid Southen went through the tedious job of organizing the many photos NASA releases into a creative Pack. This is a huge pack consisting of 2,400 high-res photos from the Expeditions 30-42 to the International Space Station. […]
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How the Smithsonian Is Restoring the Original USS Enterprise Model
The USS Enterprise is, in popular imagination, a futuristic spaceship. The actual USS Enterprise model used on the Star Trek show is, in reality, a 50-year-old creaker that has endured at least one misguided new paint job. The Smithsonian is hard at work restoring the model, though, and they’ve even got the National Zoo’s vet techs involved.
In an interview with TrekCore, the Smithsonian’s conservator Margaret Weitekamp dropped some fascinating hints about how the restoration is going. The model was donated to the Smithsonian five years after the show was canceled, and it had been on display at the Air and Space Museum. Earlier this year, they started to restore the sagging, stress-fractured model in earnest, boldly going where no conservator has gone before.
One of the first things the conservators did was bring in X-ray vet techs from the Smithsonian’s National Zoo. Weitekamp explains TrekCore:
The Enterprise has been X-rayed before, but that was done by sending it out for analysis. This is an opportunity – since the Zoological Park team had a portable radiography unit – to bring the equipment in house and save us the trouble of having to move the model an additional time.
It was really interesting. You can get a good sense of the interior; all of the little penny nails and things like that. I’m excited to get some of that imagery back. It comes in very large files that are specific to the scanning system that they have; they are in the process of converting them to a more standardized image file that we can use when working with the model.
Ultraviolet photo of the spaceship model. Credit: Smithsonian’s National Air & Space Museum.
In the 90s, an earlier attempt to restore the model led to new detailing and paint, which is a big no-no in modern conservation. So now, the museum also has to figure out how to undo its own mistakes. More from Weitekamp at TrekCore:
The museum has been doing its own work and evaluation which has included using UV light to analyze the paint, and to figure out where we have clearly repainted areas and where we have areas that seem to be more uniform in their paint. The top of the saucer section, for example, leads us to believe that it is original paint – it all fluoresces in the same way.
There’s plenty more to nerd out over at TrekCore. As for the model itself, expect to see it on display again in its former glory in 2016, just in time for the original series’ 50th anniversary. [TrekCore]
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GE: Everyday Object Destruction
Last Spring, General Electric released a series of videos showing household objects being put through the ringer with their Micro Erosion, Micro Forge and Drop Weight testing rigs. Here’s a supercut of the destruction for your enjoyment.
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A Tale of Two Gatling Guns: F-35 vs. A-10
The Daily Beast’s Dave Majumdar is out with another excellent story about how the gun on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the Pentagon’s newest and most expensive fighter jet, won’t work for another four years — at the earliest. That’s because the software that lets pilots shoot the Gatling gun, which is critical for the […]
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The 5 Cases That Could Pit the Supreme Court Against the NSA
An anonymous reader writes: We’ve all been wondering how the U.S. Judicial branch will deal with the NSA’s bulk metadata surveillance. Getting a case to the Supreme Court isn’t a quick process, so we haven’t seen much movement yet. But later this year, several cases have the potential to force a Supreme Court ruling on the NSA, whether they like it or not. Ars summarizes the five likeliest cases, and provides estimates on their timelines. For example, Klayman v. Obama was one of the first lawsuits filed after the Snowden leaks were published. The first judge to hear it actually ordered the government to halt the metadata program and destroy all data, but stayed his own order pending appeal. The case is now awaiting a decision from the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals, and several other high-profile lawsuits are awaiting its outcome. The decision in Klayman will have a domino effect on NSA-related court battles across the country.
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