Blog Entries tagged 'Reading' http://www.r3uk.com Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:55:02 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.r3uk.com/index.php/blog/Reading-The-Computer-a-Ladybird-book-.html <p>&nbsp;</p><p>You've gotta love retro books. This beauty was &pound;4 on Amazon and dates back to 1971. On its opening page it says [computers] &quot;are fascinating when they are used in rocketry and space research&quot; while &quot;we are inclined to be alarmed by their complex mechanisms&quot; and that &quot;many people think of them as almost human machines with 'brains' that allow them to think&quot;.<br /><br />How cool is that??!</p><img src="http://www.r3uk.com/images/stories/site_cont [...] davids@r3uk.com Wed, 13 May 2009 00:00:00 +0100 Retro Reading: Nerd http://www.r3uk.com/index.php/blog/NASA-report-on-Columbia-crew-survival.html Last week NASA released the Columbia Crew Survival Investigation Report, a comprehensive document detailing the Columbia shuttle tragedy of 2003 and ultimately concluding it was &lsquo;not survivable&rsquo;. At 400 pages it&rsquo;s pretty beefy but I ran through it last weekend.<br /><p>&nbsp;<br />From a scientific or engineering viewpoint, I&rsquo;m pretty staggered by the skills of the people involved in reconstructing what happened to the ship and her crew when she disintegrated upon re-entr [...] davids@r3uk.com Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0100 Reading: