Comments on: Watch a rocket tank being built, mostly by robots

By: pzatchok

pzatchok — Tue, 05 Dec 2017 05:23:02 +0000

Could you imagine up-scaling this tech and building space habitats using a reusable, inflatable mold almost a 100 meters long and 50 meters in diameter.

By: ken anthony

ken anthony — Sat, 02 Dec 2017 04:49:36 +0000

This is the basic question of capital investment that began with the industrial revolution and accelerated with numeric computer controls. It’s justified when economics says it is.

A technician I know justified by one act his employment to the end of time by adding a sensor that avoided tool breakage on a row of powder presses he worked with by stopping the machine from double punching a part. Machines can be impressive but it’s people that make things happen.

By: Edward

Edward — Sat, 02 Dec 2017 01:52:01 +0000

wayne asked: “Yes, interesting video! Is there a companion video where they pressurize it until it explodes?”

Be careful when testing to destruction. One time, we tested to destruction the standoffs for a chilled electronics box, thinking that our design would impress the customer at the high dynamic G-load that it took to break the composite standoffs. Instead of awe, the customer was shocked, saying “the unit broke?” The best laid plans of mice and engineers …

By: wayne

wayne — Fri, 01 Dec 2017 20:18:37 +0000

Yes, interesting video! Is there a companion video where they pressurize it until it explodes?

Mitch-
good stuff.

I’d nominate this series as one of the better portrayals of historical, hypnotic, mass assembly:
Master Hands (Part IV) 1936
Chevrolet assembly plant, Flint, Mi.
https://youtu.be/YtNXTezmZpE

By: Mitch S.

Mitch S. — Fri, 01 Dec 2017 19:23:54 +0000

See this on a larger scale:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmmrkswDHp0

Or a broader view:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWocCSl8bY0