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Even the telescope looks surprised!
Ever heard of Big Deal Custom Cases? They're a company in Winnipeg, Manitoba who started out making road cases for musicians before diversifying into laptops, field equipment, basically anything breakable anyone needed to carry from one place to another.
Imagine what they thought when NASA phoned them up to build giant cases to carry the sails for the James Webb Space Telescope from the manufacturer to their headquarters.
I’ve had one of their cases for my Epiphone for 20+ years now, I’ll be dead long before that thing ever needs replaced.
Probably
huh, that is right up our alley, but were kinda always felt that there's a secret echelon of “really professional companies” that gets contracted by NASA
They purposely try to spread it around as much as they can to avoid unbalancing the economic and academic equilibrium of the states.
They would save a lot of money by just building everything in one place, say, Texas or New Mexico, but the cost of running NASA, and the academic expertise required to do so would pull so much economic activity, companies, jobs, taxes, and all the knock on effects to that state that local businesses, residents, land values would all spin out of balance, and the states who missed out would have a noticeable dip in business and income tax revenue. They didn't need to build the Saturn 5 first stage in... Wherever, and then ship it all the way down to the Panama canal and back up to Port Canaveral, but they did it to share the load and the economic stimulus.
For US government contracts that secret echelon is called the lowest bidder lol
What the hell I thought they were just a local place that does work vehicle retrofits and other small stuff. That's awesome.
Yeah! I didn't know until I visited with a friend of Gary Dealy (nicknamed Big Deal.) They have framed photos of the whole process. You should ask about it if you're in there, Gary told us the whole story. Very nice, cool, hilarious people.
Hitachi - Magic wand, Hydraulic excavators, Scanning Electron Microscopes.
Mitsubishi: pens, cars, nuclear power plants.
"Yeah can I get uhhh, a medium sized family sedan, an air conditioner, and a capesize containership?"
Just Zaibatsu things...
ACs, planes, CNCs, and solar and wind energy, too.
But like many Japanese corporations, they are legally distinct but interlocked companies, see Keiretsu.
and plastic. I CNC Mitsubishi plastic with a Mitsubishi controlled machine.
funny how that works, but it do be like that.
They fucked up San onofre so bad it's now being decommissioned 😡
https://newsroom.edison.com/stories/sce-formally-serves-mitsubishi-with-notice-of-dispute
It was a $680mill job, and SoCal Edison (SCE) had such an inept legal team, they missed a term in the contract with Mitsubishi which limited payout for failure within the 20yr warranty to $125mill.
Can you fucking believe that shit? I only found this out after investigating why there was a $3 "decommissioning fee" on my first electric bill after moving to California.
They sold the rights to make the magic wand about a decade ago. No longer Hitachi, alas.
Because Hitachi was embarrassed about their innocent personal massager being used for such unwholesome activities. Literal PR move.
I thought Magic Wands were used almost exclusively for holesome activities.
Nice
Wich turned it basically into an US exclusive product, and pretty much impossible to get outside of there
Just like TI... They no longer make the famous calculator
Well that makes sense, he had to focus on his music career.
Get off my lawn
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My 3 favorite activities.
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And just about half of all beverage cans in the world.
Funnily, they no longer make either of these products. The glass jar division was sold decades ago, and the aerospace sector was purchased by BAE last year. Ball is still the largest manufacturer of aluminum cans, however. They also make plastic bottles.
I like their idea of aluminum cups, but the boxes they come in are unfortunately made from plastic coated paperboard. (Not sure why, with their whole selling point being more environmentally friendly.)
Also aluminum is super great at conducting heat! which means your drink will rapidly move toward whatever temperature it is.
Great at conduction, but with not a lot of thermal mass, meaning that actually your drink will usually just make whatever it's touching (your hand, often) super cold or hot.
It's a two way street. Your hand is reciprocally warming the drink.
We’ve been storing and drinking beverages in aluminum cans for like a century now and this hasn’t been a big problem.
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Does it really have a resting shocked Pikachu face?
Only from that perspective, the "eyes" are on the supports for the sensor in front of the mirrors
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A bra company made NASA's spacesuits.
Those things are feats of engineering!
Spacesuits are cool too I guess.
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honeywell: has home thermostats also honeywell: need defense/data center/aerospace industry products?
Honeywell licenses their name for consumer products. They dont actually make that stuff anymore.
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Homies out here calling a Ball jar a Mason jar... Smh. Practically spitting on the abandoned ruins of Muncie, IN.
The style is called a Mason jar because John Mason came up with it and made it popular. This is called a Mason jar for this reason.
John Mason was from New Jersey. What does Muncie IL have to do with the Mason jar style?
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Corning: dinner plates, Gorilla glass, space shuttle windows
And fiber optic cables!
This is like General Mills, the cereal company, also designing DSV Alvin, the deep sea submersible.
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