The Vintage Beauty of Soviet Control Rooms

Some of those are absolutely fantastic! The 3rd to last ("spiders") and 2nd to last ("neon") could be reworked into some interesting alien ship control room designs. I used to draw control panels onto play-blocks as an adolescent and tried to give them an aesthetic tilt. Reflecting the style of the times, they looked like R2D2 mated with Max Headroom: "B-b-b-beep, Ch-ch-chirp"

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder I guess.

I remember reading somewhere that the control room at the Chernobyl nuclear plant looked like someone had taken a grab bag of knobs and dials and thrown them at the wall. The report concluded that the design of the control room made safe management of the plant more difficult.