Biochemist, Doctor Who fan, astronomer, model-maker... these are just some of the nicer terms used to describe me. Co-host of @robotsineyes podcast.
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When they turned the station to minimise heating inside this also caused power generation to drop, so a continual round of adjustments was needed. To make matters worse, the high internal temperatures would eventually spoil the food and camera film stored onboard, so time was of the essence.
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Team @trapone.bsky.social highlights from the photo studio at #Utopia2026 taken by paulphippswilliams.com www.fantomevents.co.uk/utopia2026/
Next day's crew launch was scrubbed and attention turned to ways to save the station. Ground controllers had to keep using the station's thrusters to re-orient it. The solar panels for the solar telescope section had unfolded, but orienting them for maximum power caused excessive internal heating.
A fabulous weekend event. hear all about it from our team on the scene...
Human Spaceflight: 14 May 1973. Skylab is launched, but immediately after entering orbit something is clearly very wrong. Telemetry indicates that the temperature inside the space station is rapidly rising beyond habitable levels, and the main solar panels have not deployed, so power is far too low.
In these difficult times we must all come together to support fans who simply cannot afford to complete their platic tat collections. I urge you to book this person for your event photography so he may finally get that destroyed Cassandra figure.
Also, he’s a fucking great photographer.
Skylab was designed to have an outer micrometeoroid and thermal shield that, once in orbit, would deploy to 'stand away' from the main skin of the workshop. Instead, aerodynamic forces during launch ripped it off about a minute into the flight, also damaging the solar panels.
Making matters worse, because this caused one main solar panel to partially unfold, the exhaust from the retro rockets on the second stage that helped separate it from the station caught this panel and ripped it off entirely, while the other was trapped by debris from the lost shield.
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My efforts to steal 'The Nightmare Begins' from @filmisfabulous.bsky.social, while apparently successful at first, turned out to have been thwarted by the cunning John Franklin only bringing an empty can. Foiled by a genius....
The Film is Fabulous panel was a real highlight of the weekend. I urge any of you who haven't done so already (hell, I urge those of you who have already done so!) to donate so they can continue their efforts to preserve film collections.
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Film is Fabulous! is a charitable trust run by film collectors, cinema lovers and vintage television enthusiasts. Our objective is to advance, educate, and encourage public interest in film within Bri...
On the brand new Trap One🎙Podcast we file a field report from this weekend’s fantastic Utopia convention in Milton Keynes
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Anyway. Get this shit at your wedding. www.paulphippswilliams.com. A man’s got plastic tat to afford.
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Birmingham wedding photographer for the camera-shy, the gloriously geeky & the beautifully queer. Relaxed, natural photos that feel like you.
