On the other hand, there is much more improvisation in spaceflight than one might expect, like using bathtub caulk and cowboy hat felt for connecting the TPS tiles to the fuselage of the Shuttle. One would not expect that an agency like NASA would use something like that on a multi billion dollar spacecraft. But this is nothing more than a simple timer. Well, I'm not saying that everything that comes from China is actually bad. And if you open it, it's even a cheap board/electronics inside. I had one of these as well many years ago in my kitchen, when I was far away from building a flight simulator or seriously planning a Shuttle replica.
#Cdn pt1a digital timer clock full#
But on the other hand, this is a place full of space flight nerds. I can only quote Notebook and Phil Smith: what a generous and kind offer kuddel, well done, good move andĭidn't expect that someone here has that timer actually. Went back as freelance and short-term contracts if it was interesting. Took early retirement eventually, I was doing to much mouse and kbd and not fixing things. I'd left in 1996 when Thames were bought out(again!) and followed my pension. Just too expensive to make programs there. It survived for twenty years till times caught up with it. Thames shut down its outside-broadcast and transmission sites and concentrated at Teddington as an independent producer. That was the end of Thames(didn't bid high enough) and three other broadcasters, and in practice the end of regional tv in the UK. Brought in legislation to allow every regional franchise to be auctioned. Worked well till Margaret Thatcher was elected and took a dislike to the power of the tv unions.
It was deliberately regionalised, so each area of the country could have local content and news and still benefit from national broadcasting.
Set up to bring commercial television to the UK, it had five large regional broadcasters and eight smaller regional broadcasters. Thames was part of the ITV(Independent Television) network.
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