#cryogenic

[a-typical]

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope sits inside Chamber A at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston after having completed its final cryogenic testing on Nov. 18, 2017.

Engineers tested this alignment process in the cryogenic, vacuum environment of Chamber A at NASA’s Johnson Space Center during about 100 days of cryogenic testing. The environment of the chamber simulates the frigid space environment where Webb operates, and where it collects data of never-before-observed portions of the universe. Inside the chamber, engineers fed laser light into and out of the telescope, acting like a source of artificial stars. The test verified the entire telescope, including its optics and instruments, worked correctly in this cold environment and ensured the telescope would work correctly in space.

[madcat-world]

Criogenic Vault (1 of 10) - Alejandro Burdisio

[chaoticpersontale]

Melting me softly

[thefalloutwiki]

Fallout 3: Cryo Mine

Were you previously aware that Fallout 3 has an unused texture and mesh for a Cryo Mine?

Cryo Mines were later added in the Mothership Zeta add-on with a brand new mesh and texture. The old iteration was reused for the Spider Drones in the Operation: Anchorage add-on.

You can check out the page for the unused version of the Cryo Mine here:

https://fallout.wiki/wiki/Cryo_Mine_(unused)

[redxdesign]

[casxuls]

Cryogenic Visuals on YouTube..

[nerds-yearbook]

In 1961, criminals pulled off a daring caper by stealing a million dollars worth of gold headed to Fort Knox. Knowing they were going to be wanted men and the gold too hot fence, they had themselves placed in suspended animation in a cave till the year 2061. ("The Rip Van Winkle Caper", The Twilight Zone, TV)

[take-a-dip-in-the-deadpool]

I'm not going to watch it but did they thaw out walt's head for this birthday video?

[misscakeshop]

Anaesthesia

So far, I've spent 3.5 hours on this.

I have this idea in my head of a cybernetic woman in a cryogenic chamber that is sheltered inside a Roman cathedral style building that has been abandoned and overtaken by nature. She would be, like, a post apocalyptic sleeper.

Now if I can just get my hands to print what I see inside my head, then we'll be golden.

[strayhumanwizard]

Don’t you think it would be calming to breathe the goo from the cryo-sleep-tubes in movies? It just looks like thicc air and it would probably feel nice

[scrumpyfan43]

I can't find a source from a real quick look but the hoops and striations are because the engine bell is made from a zillion little pipes brazed together, so it can be liquid-cooled with the liquid oxygen that's then burned.

Photographs of the Saturn V rocket by Dave Wilson, 2014

[a-typical]

Since many materials change shape when they change temperature, a test team from Ball Aerospace worked together with NASA engineers at Marshall’s X-ray and Cryogenic Facility (XRCF) to cool the mirror segments down to the temperature Webb is experiencing in deep space, -400 degrees Fahrenheit (-240 degrees Celsius).

Cryogenic testing of the primary mirror segments began in at Marshall’s XRCF by Ball Aerospace in 2009.

The change in mirror segment shape due to the exposure to these cryogenic temperatures was recorded by Ball Aerospace Engineers using a laser interferometer. This information, together with the mirrors, traveled back to California for final surface polishing at Tinsley. The mirrors’ final polish was completed in June of 2011.

By the end of 2013, all the flight primary mirror segments, as well as the secondary and tertiary mirrors would be at Goddard. The mirrors were stored in special protective canisters in the cleanroom, awaiting the arrival of the flight telescope structure.

Inside a massive clean room at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland the James Webb Space Telescope team used a robotic arm to install the last of the telescope’s 18 mirrors onto the telescope structure.

James Webb Space Telescope Mirror Seen in Full Bloom

Once the mirrors were completed, the science instruments were integrated into the telescope. While at Goddard, the telescope also underwent environmental testing – both acoustic and vibration – to ensure it would be able to withstand the rigors of launch. That successfully completed, the telescope was sent off to NASA Johnson in Houston, Texas, for tests of the optics and instruments at cryogenic temperatures. NASA Johnson’s Chamber A is the only thermal vacuum chamber NASA has that is large enough for Webb!

Once the telescope reached orbit, engineers on Earth made adjustments/corrections to the positioning of the Webb telescope’s primary mirror segments to bring them into alignment – to ensure they would produce sharp, focused images.

[johniac]

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .Feb 12th, 2025

[creepie-treattricker]

Creepie could hear faint beeping noises as she slowly regained consciousness. Looking around was hard as everything was blurry but she could make out a pane of thick glass separating her from the world. The only thing she could remember is being frozen in some sort of gel that kept her in a state of suspended animation and that it was winter when she had signed up for this experiment. It was winter 2013 when she had been suspended and she had just been waken up. What she didn’t knew yet was that it was now winter 2024. She didn’t remembered why she was inside the tube. Creepie would have a lot of catching up to do with everyone.

[thefalloutwiki]

Fallout 2: Private Dobbs

“Some men came by and took my body to a laboratory. I heard them say something about trying to regenerate my body by immersing it in something called Biomed Gel.”

- Private Dobbs, Fallout 2

After speaking to Dobbs, he will promptly run away before gooifying into a puddle. Inspecting him reveals that he suffered from Post-Cryogenic Syndrome.

You can read about Dobbs here:

https://fallout.wiki/wiki/Private_Dobbs