Moon Phase

Distance: 56 earth radii
Ecliptic latitude: -5 degrees
Ecliptic longitude: 195 degrees
Last summer I was visiting another plant for meeting and they still had their original Graphics Panel functional. They also had a SCADA system, so I think they were maintaining their graphics panel for nostalgia reasons. For months before that I had been trying to come up with a way to display our entire process [...]
One of my more fun duties here is designing the screens for our SCADA system. Our current system comprises about 80 screens controlling all kinds of equipment. While I was doing a lot of the design I got to thinking about the LCARS system from Star Trek, and that even though most people never thought [...]