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If you don't have the technology to do the job right, you use the technology you have and hope like hell it'll at least do something.

Have a look at some Good Machines: remote-controlled and automated machines used by the Russians in the early attempts to mitigate and clean up the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site.

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The America's Great Outdoors tumblr had some amazing photographs of Washington, DC today, taken from the top of the Washington Monument. When I hit the last one I wound up thinking of my Milliways character Ellen (aaaaaaaagh_sky), so I had to comment on it here.

(Look, reblogging is easier than shifting pictures around and using image tags, and I'm lazy and haven't had lunch yet.)