[HN Gopher] The Vintage Beauty of Soviet Control Rooms
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       The Vintage Beauty of Soviet Control Rooms
        
       Author : ivanvas
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2022-03-06 22:22 UTC (37 minutes ago)
        
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       | 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:/...
        
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