Jun. 20th, 2007

beamjockey: Drawing of Bill of the Heterodyne Boys by Phil Foglio. (Default)
What font is this?

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I'm thinking it looks a lot like Comic Sans, but it seems to be stretched vertically.

Let's see if the FONT tag will work here on Livejournal. Here's an attempt to render the same phrase in Comic Sans:

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beamjockey: Drawing of Bill of the Heterodyne Boys by Phil Foglio. (Default)
Corsetry buffs will be interested in this. It doesn't do a thing for your figure, though.

Recognizing that astronauts in orbit would want to move around, Bell Aerospace in 1961 began developing a Zero-G Belt. This device has clusters of tiny rocket nozzles. It's powered by compressed nitrogen stored in a series of curved tubes around the operator's waist.

It was devised by Wendell Moore, the same engineer who cooked up the better-known Bell Rocket Belt.

From Rocket Belt


The fine folks at the Contrails project have just scanned in this report (4.4 MB PDF).

Illustrations from AMRL TDR 63-23, "Development And Test Of The Bell Zero-G Belt." )

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