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offline magness from astroblaster (Antarctica) on 2012-03-26 08:04 [#02431885]
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So I don’t watch anything while I’m working, mostly,
because I’m too absorbed to notice anything else and I
don’t think of it as work.

But during some of the inevitable ”maintenance/support”
activities that come with doing good work/life, I watch the
live feed from the international space station.

Nasa’s had a tv channel in the US for decades but they
only broadcast the ”interesting” stuff. Somewhere in
2010 they started broadcasting a full-time space station
workday, except when the satellite relay is in the wrong
spot (signal loss usually somewhere in each orbit). The
crew is on GMT and work maybe 10 hours a day with lunch and
two exercise breaks.

It’s great to leave it on. It’s not so
distracting/noisy, no music, just chatter with mission
control, mostly silent crackling static while these guys
work in microgravity.

Despite experiments that push the boundaries of
civilization, at a cost of millions per person per day, they
have to spend a LOT of time cleaning filters and other
station maintenance. It puts your work in perspective and
makes you feel less annoyed doing mundane things.

I hope the Kibo (Japanese) module gets a feed, they have art
experiments going apparently, and some racks are robotically
controlled from earth with no crew intervention. I also
wouldn’t mind a feed from CERN, but they already gave us
the web (almost by accident) so we enjoy their work pretty
frequently anyway.

Am I the only one? Sorry this isn’t about electronic
music, I’ll go post something relevant.


 

offline j4ck from United Kingdom on 2012-03-26 08:38 [#02431890]
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8:40 and the cunts aren't even awake yet?

very good link to share. ty


 

offline j4ck from United Kingdom on 2012-03-26 08:40 [#02431891]
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by cunts I mean astrobotnias


 

offline broken phillip on 2012-03-26 09:01 [#02431892]
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it looks pretty dark up there in space right now.


 

offline -crazone from smashing acid over and over on 2012-03-26 11:26 [#02431897]
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they abandoned ship


 


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