Spinoffs

While Super Mario‘s princess is in another castle Robert Miles met his Princess pretty much down on earth:

forward to 0:30min to encounter her & listen here to Tony E‘s Radio Show ‘Space Plane‘ to get to know more about Robert Miles contacts.

BTW the Queen that ruled the arctic the last thousand years is illustrated here by Robert Gibson Jones

from the Fantastic Adventures v11 #11 Novembre 1949 shown at the ‘Polemics’ exhibition at the Maison d’Ailleurs

“…the term affordance refers to the perceived and actual properties of the thing, primarily those fundamental properties that determine just how the thing could possibly be used. […] Affordances provide strong clues to the operations of things. Plates are for pushing. Knobs are for turning. Slots are for inserting things into. Balls are for throwing or bouncing. When affordances are taken advantage of, the user knows what to do just by looking: no picture, label, or instruction needed.”
Donald Norman – The Design of Everyday Things, Basic Books 1988, (original title ‘The Psychology of Everysday Things’) p.9

‘How can you use it when it’s useless’ is a quote from John Cage picked from the talk with Wim Mertens “So that each person is in charge of himself.”from A Dip in the Lake hosted at UbuWeb.
This is the way Kenji Kawakami is organising unuselessness & even calling a spade a spade: 珍道具 or Chindōgu:

If youve red the Ten Tenents of Chindogu & you’re still unaware about the useability of inventions & phenomenas you’re prospecting please report it to HASA‘s search for Unidentified Technical Objects:

Ludwig Feuerbach “Religion is a dream, in which our own ideas and feelings emerge as external entities, as creatures that exist beyond ourselves”  from ‘Das Wesen des Christentums.’

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remember don’t forget to boogie:

some may say its the raise of the machine – some say it might become soldiers best friend

here’s angie with friend:

Prof. Oberth entwarf einen Raumanzug lange bevor irgendein Mensch in den Raum vorstossen konnte:

aus Raumfahrt Enzyklopädie von Fred Appel, Aldus Books Limited, London 1971

Plot Summary from Wikipedia:
Robotics scientist Keitarō Jin and his son Keisuke become caught up in the campaign of terror by an evil organization known as “GOD” (The Government Of Darkness). They are attacked and the professor’s technology stolen, but before Keitarō dies, he is able to perform surgery on his son. With the last of his robotics technology, he transforms his son into “Kamen Rider X”. Now, to avenge his father’s death and ensure the safety of Tokyo, Japan, and entire world, he battles the monstrous minions of GOD, weidling his powerful “Ridol”, which can be used as a spear, a rapier, or a club, among others. With an exuberant cry of “Set Up!”, he transforms into X-Rider, charging into battle aboard his motorcycle “Cruiser”. In the first 21 episodes, X fights kaijin based on characters from Greek mythology. Soon, the personal soldiers of “King Dark”, the leader of GOD, begin to attack. After defeating them, he faces off against King Dark himself finally ending GOD’s mission of terror, and the world is safe again.
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UFOs aren’t necessarily alien spacecraft. And some purported UFOs aren’t UFOs at all.
Take this example:

or the one from Apollo 16.

While Lisa ‘Spacediaper’ Nowak is down on earth, on the ISS nature’s call currently will be answered by a Russian-Build System but as the planet keeps turning the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has teamed up with engineers from the private sector to develop a next-generation space toilet, which they hope to complete within the next five years.

At the 1970 World Expo in Osaka, consumer electronics maker Sanyo demonstrated their vision for the future by showcasing a series of appliances they thought would populate the home of tomorrow. Included was the Ultrasonic Bath, a pod-like human washing machine that cleans, massages and dries the user in a fully automated 15-minute process.
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