Even the telescope looks surprised!
Meanwhile Ball
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MightyThistle@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Wren@lemmy.today 1 day ago
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 Houston.
flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
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
Agent641@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
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.
AlfredoJohn@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
For US government contracts that secret echelon is called the lowest bidder lol
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
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.
LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
What the hell I thought they were just a local place that does work vehicle retrofits and other small stuff. That’s awesome.
Wren@lemmy.today 1 day ago
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.
atomicorange@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.
EtherWhack@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.)
alternategait@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Also aluminum is super great at conducting heat! which means your drink will rapidly move toward whatever temperature it is.
atomicorange@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Has any company of any size ever done something actually envrionmentally friendly?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 day ago
those aluminum cups make milk taste fantastic. also taste colder for some reason.
Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Does it really have a resting shocked Pikachu face?
Mok98@feddit.it 1 day ago
Only from that perspective, the “eyes” are on the supports for the sensor in front of the mirrors
TachyonTele@piefed.social 1 day ago
It knows it’s going to see some shit
Nanook@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
It does
Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf 1 day ago
And just about half of all beverage cans in the world.
cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Yamaha has entered the chat
* en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_Corporation#History * en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_Motor_Company#Histor…
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 day ago
i really hope they stay in the electric sax game however long it takes me to save up the that much money
MissJinx@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Still remember the Yamaha paper craft site. So many hours of fun! So sad they closed it
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 1 day ago
A bra company made NASA’s spacesuits.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
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.
PoopingCough@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Would love to know the name of the doc if you can remember!
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 1 day ago
That’s a great story.
Of curse, today the supervisor would be arrested and put on a terrorist watch list.
atomicorange@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Those things are feats of engineering!
Spacesuits are cool too I guess.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 1 day ago
apex32@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Two cups in the front, two loops in the back. How do they do it?
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 1 day ago
Is there any situation where Seinfeld is inappropriate?
brossman@infosec.pub 1 day ago
honeywell: has home thermostats also honeywell: need defense/data center/aerospace industry products?
higgsboson@piefed.social 1 day ago
Honeywell licenses their name for consumer products. They dont actually make that stuff anymore.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Same with Ball and canning jars.
EtherWhack@lemmy.world 1 day ago
And that’s only naming a few.
mrunicornman@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I have a cheap Honeywell soundbar. It’s quite crappy but enough for podcasts.
BlackVenom@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Homies out here calling a Ball jar a Mason jar… Smh. Practically spitting on the abandoned ruins of Muncie, IN.
Routhinator@startrek.website 1 day ago
The style is called a Mason jar because John Mason came up with it and made it popular. This is called a Mason jar for this reason.
John Mason was from New Jersey. What does Muncie IL have to do with the Mason jar style?
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Muncie, Indiana is the home of the Ball Corporation, which is the company referenced in this meme. Also of Ball State University, founded by his endowment. Like “Mason jar” before it, “Ball jar” has become a genericized trademark for the object itself, especially in the Midwest.
blackbrook@mander.xyz 1 day ago
Yeah maybe. Or maybe it’s all a Freemason conspiracy, including the Wikipedia page!
Hupf@feddit.org 6 hours ago
mrunicornman@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Corning: dinner plates, Gorilla glass, space shuttle windows
SuperUserDO@piefed.ca 1 day ago
And fiber optic cables!
Gork@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
This is like General Mills, the cereal company, also designing DSV Alvin, the deep sea submersible.
whats_a_lemmy@midwest.social 1 day ago
what
GreenCrunch@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
They also made balloons!
fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 day ago
Lol balls
stray@pawb.social 1 day ago
apotheotic@beehaw.org 1 day ago
Thank you for this, i had the reverbed “balls” in my head with kurtis’ silly face
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Ball was spun off and is a subsidiary of Rubbermaid.
jivandabeast@lemmy.browntown.dev 23 hours ago
Elite Ball knowledge
anonochronomus@hexbear.net 1 day ago
Literally the glasses company from Videodrome.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Capitalism as it is.
ODuffer@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Hitachi - Magic wand, Hydraulic excavators, Scanning Electron Microscopes.
Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
My 3 favorite activities.
higgsboson@piefed.social 1 day ago
They sold the rights to make the magic wand abput a decade ago. No longer Hitachi, alas.
Mirshe@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Because Hitachi was embarrassed about their innocent personal massager being used for such unwholesome activities. Literal PR move.
vrek@programming.dev 1 day ago
Just like TI… They no longer make the famous calculator
SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 hours ago
Wich turned it basically into an US exclusive product, and pretty much impossible to get outside of there
red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 hours ago
Mitsubishi: pens, cars, nuclear power plants.
Agent641@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
“Yeah can I get uhhh, a medium sized family sedan, an air conditioner, and a capesize containership?”
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 hours ago
Just Zaibatsu things…
RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
They fucked up San onofre so bad it’s now being decommissioned 😡
excral@feddit.org 5 hours ago
ACs, planes, CNCs, and solar and wind energy, too.
But like many Japanese corporations, they are legally distinct but interlocked companies, see Keiretsu.
ch00f@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
theonion.com/yamaha-ceo-pleased-with-current-prod…
redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Mitsubishi and GE can beat that.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 hours ago
They own the Sheinhardt Wig Company and NBC!
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