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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.
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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
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j4ck
from United Kingdom on 2012-03-26 08:40 [#02431891]
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by cunts I mean astrobotnias
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broken phillip
on 2012-03-26 09:01 [#02431892]
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it looks pretty dark up there in space right now.
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-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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