[HN Gopher] The Vintage Beauty of Soviet Control Rooms ___________________________________________________________________ The Vintage Beauty of Soviet Control Rooms Author : ivanvas Score : 11 points Date : 2022-03-06 22:22 UTC (37 minutes ago) (HTM) web link (designyoutrust.com) (TXT) w3m dump (designyoutrust.com) | bigfudge wrote: | Is it just me or is romanticising soviet era tech in weird if not | actually bad taste just now? | warning26 wrote: | Honestly it's too bad that Putin's obsession with the Soviet | era isn't at all focused on the things that were _good_ about | the Soviet Union. | | Things like this, or its space program. Instead, it's all the | bad parts (territorial conquest) with none of the good. | the-dude wrote: | The program which supplies the ISS and ferries US astronauts, | uhh cosmonauts, you mean? | | What about it? Or did you mean Afghanistan? | kadoban wrote: | I'm going to go out on a limb and say that it's not the control | rooms' fault that Putin is a warmonger. | bigfudge wrote: | I agree. I don't want to overstate it. But I guess im also | squeamish about people into Ww2 merch too(it's a thing in the | uk... people dress up in 40s dresses and pretend the war is | on). It seems a weird period to be rosy tinted about. | freetime2 wrote: | When I was a kid, my parents took me on a tour of the Seabrook | nuclear power plant. The thing that impressed me the most was the | control room. I just couldn't fathom how anybody could know what | all the different buttons and dials did. | | Growing up and watching Homer in his role of safety inspector on | the Simpsons only further reinforced that feeling. | internet2000 wrote: | How likely is that none of those has been modernized? | adenner wrote: | They likely have computers in there now, but why mess with what | works? | adenner wrote: | To be fair, US reactors control rooms of that Era don't look too | much different. | https://mn70s.tumblr.com/post/32703269620/prairie-island-nuc... | warning26 wrote: | Cached version: | http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/... ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-03-06 23:00 UTC)