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.
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.
“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 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.
You’re not supposed to put that thing into your hole.
Actually, it’s pretty good for that
Seems like it would be a violent torturous way to make orifices much larger than they’re supposed to be 😳
Violent? That would be a choice. Maybe I’ll try it sometime. Anyway, it feels amazing.
Says who?
You gonna tell?
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
My 3 favorite activities.
Mitsubishi and GE can beat that.
GE
They own the Sheinhardt Wig Company and NBC!
They also make trains, industrial and automotive components and some random bullshit for the military I can’t remember
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.
It’s a big enough problem that products are sold and even given away specifically to combat the issue.
Also, the aluminum drink can was invented in 1959, and the koozie started becoming a thing in the early 70s. But I’m sure people were insulating their cans with DIY koozies before then.
Did you know you can get pint glass koozies, just like for cans?
Eg
We also have those nice paper sleeves for coffee cups that would do the job as well. At least where you touch.
So it’s an already-solved problem for this application.
I used to make, consume and share a lot of frozen beverages. I had a set of aluminum cups that I loved, but everyone else hated them because they started frosting over as soon as the frozen drink was poured in. My then girlfriend, now wife, would only use them with a towel wrapped around them for insulation.
Oof. I think I lean more toward her side, to be honest. I don’t like having cold hands.
I didn’t begrudge her the right to be warm, but it did make the cups look a lot less pretty. The ones I had were shaped differently, but basically this:
I got them at a thrift shop, so no clue what brand they were. I think I technically still have them somewhere but have only used them once any time even remotely recently.
As measured by the average suck point.
https://forums.accuratereloading.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/7411043/m/986109911/xsl/print_topic
I kind of don’t care if that’s true or not. It was hilarious.
when I read “average suck point” I was not expecting science
Capitalism baby! If nobody buys your environmentally friendly aluminum cups they won’t do much good, and people are more likely to buy a product with “luxurious” feeling packaging. They’re likely still a net benefit vs plastic solo cups, but the market leads to perverse incentives.
those aluminum cups make milk taste fantastic. also taste colder for some reason.
Has any company of any size ever done something actually envrionmentally friendly?
Yamaha has entered the chat
i really hope they stay in the electric sax game however long it takes me to save up the that much money
A bra company made NASA’s spacesuits.
Those things are feats of engineering!
Spacesuits are cool too I guess.
They had me at “unladylike karate chops” 🤣
See the whole movie.
I saw a documentary about that which was a total hoot. From some stiff necked old coot talking about “At Hamilton Standard we made propellers and transmission gearboxes for military and commercial applications. They made brassieres.” To this sharp old girl talking about “I was making baby pants and they asked me if I wanted to try something different. They put me in charge of quality control, and I issued each girl color coded pins. I was examining one suit, and I found a red pin, so I looked up who was issued the red pins and I went over to her and said “Here’s your pin” and I stuck her in the behind with it.”
I like to think those two are married.
Two cups in the front, two loops in the back. How do they do it?
Is there any situation where Seinfeld is inappropriate?
When picking up his teenage girlfriend at her high school.
Elite Ball knowledge
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
It knows it’s going to see some shit
Honestly, I really love glass. What a fantastic material.
I’ve been getting into stained glass lately. The textures and the various “dichroic” styles and swirly colorful patterns on some of them are absolutely amazing. I’m really lucky to live near a giant place that deals specifically in stained glass and it’s a treat for the eyes just to look at all the beautiful glass they have there.
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.
Same with Ball and canning jars.
I have a cheap Honeywell soundbar. It’s quite crappy but enough for podcasts.
This is like General Mills, the cereal company, also designing DSV Alvin, the deep sea submersible.
what
They also made balloons!
Corning: dinner plates, Gorilla glass, space shuttle windows
And fiber optic cables!
See also: the Apollo Lunar Module (LEM), the humble US Postal Truck (LLV), and the F/A-18 Super Hornet, all made by the Grumman Corporation.
