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Wasn't US Steel who commissioned the books from a SciFi illustrator to ensure that lots of reference drawing illustrations would have steel in the future and got these books for free available to anyone who called, and they ended up getting famous in the film industry so people ended up always designing futuristic movies with things made of steel like ships and vehicles?

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Yes you are thinking of Syd Mead - here’s the series

https://sydmead.com/category/gallery/us-steel/

Syd Mead did the designs for Blade Runner and Tron, and absolute legend.

Gotta say, I'd live in that steel modular house in a heartbeat.

There's a reason that house isn't pictured in the snow.

I can be insulated. People have built small houses from marine containers for long time.

Don't build it where it snows then. I love Eichler homes, but there is a good reason all of them (as far as I know) were built in California. With big walls of glass and thin, flat roofs, their insulation is pretty horrible. But their design actually probably saves energy given how they encourage indoor/outdoor living in temperate climates.

Then you'll love the article OP wrote about Lustron stamped-steel houses: https://www.construction-physics.com/p/the-lustron-home

You’re telling me the Stanford torus space colony that has filled my dreams for my entire life was propaganda for US steel?

Anybody since the 70s designing those radial supports out of anything that isn't a polyester isn't paying attention.

Starships in After Earth have very cool designs with a lot of threads and fabrics and membranes instead of rigid steel.

Makes me wonder who supplies the stainless steel used for the starships and cybertrucks. US steel might just turned out to be prescient.

It's rumored to be Outokumpu, but Steel Dynamics also getting mentioned.

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