You might enjoy the Halo Drive idea [0]. From my (very layman) understanding this uses this principle for propelling a spacecraft - you just need a moving black hole nearby :)
I did that tour a few years back and it was truly impressive and mesmerising - especially standing in the reactor chamber with all the (empty) rods on top of you (they cut a hole into the wall so you can enter there - and it was never in use, so safe to be in there). Pretty crazy.
The whole tour was like entering a time capsule and felt like being in a movie or computer game. Everything looking brand new and unused, but old and outdated at the same time. Apart from all the tech and science that they showed and explained this eery time capsule part was sticking with me.
And the tour was even free, or almost free as far as I can remember, only getting a slot was hard. Can recommend a visit, if you get the chance.
Damn that sounds like a great visit. It seemed like very interesting piece of history and I wanted to share the link here. I'm driving through Europe right now and wanted to go there but nobody answered my emails and the online reservation form doesn't seem to work. Would you know if they still do it around this time of the year?
hey, I checked as well and it looks like they currently don't have any tours online. I can forward you the contact from when we booked our tour at the time if you want. sent you a linkedIn connection request (I think, connected some dots).
Also, I found this [0] post with lots of pictures [1] from the Technical University of Graz about a visit, and the pictures give a good taste of what you might see there.
btw, if you come to pass Austria (Vienna or rural Upper Austria) and want to grab a beer or something let me know - seems like we are both working as engineering managers and share some interests, might be interesting :)
I need to disagree. As a (central) European person I very much consider at least Istanbul to be an European city - not sure about the whole of Turkey, though.
After some thoughts why I feel this way I think it boils down to geography and history. Istanbul is geographically on both sides of the bosphorus strait, where the “continents” Europe and Asia are considered divided. And then it has historical significance for Europe (as Constantinople), being one of the major stable forces in Europe during at least the middle ages (but also before and after).
I personally like the name „checklist script“ (also checkscript) for that, which I found in that comments at the time. I think it conveys easily the two purposes of the thing (checklist gradually becoming a script).
A good friend of mine (and great dev!) is doing pair programming tour on the US west coast, analogous to a journeyman tour of medieval craftsmen.
He has experience in different areas of visual and spatial computing and is a super nice guy! (for anyone interested)
Posting this because i haven't found it here yet, and I find it a very interesting and cool approach on sharing knowledge.
Post is about his tour and some backgrounds on the idea.
Just wanted to write the same, but did not expect that this was already written, nice surprise. I stayed at le Dahu in morzine (for biking) last week and had no idea. Now
their logo makes sense. Adding
to the topic: I have a t-shirt with a Woipertinger, but had no idea about the “existence” of these animals until after I bought it and did some research. Since then I see stuffed ones all over the place in hotels and museums and so on (mainly in Austria).
[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.03423