Robots - Spaceships & Other Tin Toys
April 22, 2008 at 12:36 PM
Yesterday I bought this magnificent book Robots – Spaceships & Other Tin Toys (Kitahara, Teruhisa / Shimizu, Yukio – Hardcover – 15.5×21.7 cm, – 352 pages – Multilingual Edition: German, French, English). This Taschen’s 25th anniversary special edition features the Tehurisa Kitahara collection of tin toys from the 50s and the 60s – various tin aeroplanes and ships, rockets, clockwork robots, the Coney Island Rocket Ride, Godzilla, Batman, Popeye, Fire Dept. cars, big American limousines, genuine precursors of today’s toys and grownup designs. An excellent gift for the boys (aka adults), this amazing book transported me back to childhood, a place of colorful dreams and interplanetary adventures.
Who, with more than 30, hasn’t had one of these in hands?
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Wonderful little ‘sculptures’
Dear Dr Alonso B,
I really enjoy your blog posts. I want to tell you of a breaking news story that should interest you because of the connection between machines and society. Sorry to post this as a comment, but I can’t see how else to reach you.
I am the author of new theory that has been hotly debated on my Scientific American blog http://science-community.sciam.com/forum.jspa?forumID=300005039 To date, none of those who have commented have found a single flaw with it. To the contrary, three of the past detractors ultimately supplied three new lines of supporting evidence that were not used in the original book.
During phase 1 of this campaign, I invitied hundreds of scientists within the field to the blog. I wanted fault found with the new model ASAP, because of its ominous implications. If the LHC project at CERN does “succeed” in creating man’s first mini black-hole, then it will be stable – leading to possible obliteration of all that we know. Because no fault has been llocated, I then approached the media. Nothing. Not even the fact that a separate group of concerned scientists filed a lawsuit in Hawaii to halt the LHC project, has had any affect.
This is why I’m contacting you. Your blog is read by people I have not been able to reach. Please consider running this story as a blog topic. Any aspect, I don’t care. Dialogue is dialogue; only through open debate can the new model begin to affect change. If the implications of the model are correct, there isn’t much time. LHC is scheduled to start on its maiden run in the middle of June, this year.
To view the new model for yourself you can freely download it at http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/u56srb or you can purchase the book, The Dominium, at most any online bookstore.
@eddie – hello again Eddie, thanks for the visit!
@Hasanuddin – Hello Dr. Hasanuddin, thanks for the complements. I’ve already read your blog at Sciam and will soon go for the book. Very interesting points and hot debate also at ScienceBlogs
I’ll write something about it soon. Best regards.