“UNZIP ME, MOBOT.” “Y-Y-YES MA’AM.”

Hughes Aircraft Electronics Labs: we make science fun.



From this nifty Life gallery.

That’s Mobot The Magnificent Mobile Robot, incidentally. He never made it past the prototype stage, obviously. But Hughes probably had a lot of fun making him.

Yr plastic pal that’s fun to be with,

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PUNISHMENT FARM!

Starring the girl built like a platinum powerhouse.

Naturally.



[Via Boogie Children]

Real wild child,

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I WAS DANCING IN THE PUNISHMENT FARM, AH-WOO!

Apropos of the previous post, here’s what goes on in those punishment farms.

Swing dancing, mainly. And Mamie Van Doren singing.

It’s fun to think that this kind of dancing used to frighten authority figures across America.

No parking on the dance floor,

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