For those not familiar, the NORAD tracking of Santa has gotten pretty extensive:
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Aww, it comes up page not found. I wonder if it’s a “subscriber only” post. I’d love to read it! I remember drooling over those way back when - but not having a house I could mortgage they were beyond my reach 
Ooh - I found an ars technica article about it!
That was just as fabulous a read as I thought it would be. “Very tolerant parents” broke me 
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It was there, I followed it this morning and even followed the link to a Youtube video that was linked from the article.
I guess @evansd2 drove too much traffic to them? 
The Youtube:
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Oh, man.
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What the heck!!!
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Helical cone gears? That guy is my hero. Awesome design and engineering
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Clever.
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It looks like utter chaos, but every face, every angle, every connection has a precise purpose. This is amazing!
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Space is beautiful, and now also 
This just came across my feed on Mastodon. Even more impressively, it’s not made with construction gingerbread!
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The white is the icing on the cake!
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That is insane.
Funny enough I was just talking about voyager with my SO’s 17-yo son last night. He never knew about the records or really any of it. He’d heard of Carl Sagan but didn’t really know his work.
It all came up because we were talking about records and I have the golden record box set. He studied the book for probably 45 mins. It was a fun conversation.
This is the box set:
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It’s art restoration time again, but with a much more modern sensibility. It’s cool to watch old paintings come back to life but posters and other ephemera are worth preserving too:
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I wonder what Nicholas Lowry from Antiques Roadshow would say about that technique.
i do appreciate how she’s essentially using a similar style to pointillism to mimic the printer dots.
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What it’s like the first few times you try kerf correction:
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exactly.
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Whoa, handmade candy.
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I’m in, who’s visiting Taiwan next?!?
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Wow. I’ve never seen a robot move like this. Crazy.
The part where it handles a rogue tire is wild.
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