• Happy New Years from the International Space Station!
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[video=youtube;8bqkABFZnG8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bqkABFZnG8[/video]
Haha, that's awesome. I love the Russian guys accent(s).
Astronoughts seem to be the nicest guys and they arn't even on the planet.
[QUOTE=zin908;33965012]Astronoughts seem to be the nicest guys and they arn't even on the planet.[/QUOTE] I imagine seeing how small we and our planet actually are on a cosmic scale could be quite humbling.
Man, I wish I could go into space and see the Earth from there. The view is amazing from the pictures I've seen.
When is it the new years for them :S What time zone are they in?
[QUOTE=Occlusion;33965643]When is it the new years for them :S What time zone are they in?[/QUOTE] They use UTC for timekeeping, but they orbit the earth much faster than it rotates, so during 24 hours they have about 16 sunrises.
I thought I recognised the voice of the guy in the top right. He made some awesome videos of strange phenomena you get in microgravity, on one of his previous expeditions. [video=youtube;1n-HMSCDYtM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n-HMSCDYtM[/video] [video=youtube;gdAmEEAiJWo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdAmEEAiJWo[/video] [video=youtube;bgC-ocnTTto]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgC-ocnTTto[/video] [video=youtube;BPMjcN-sBJ4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPMjcN-sBJ4[/video] His voice is kinda unmistakable :v:
It looks all fun and games but it must be awful literally living at work. But then again it's not that bad because, well, you're in space :v:
[QUOTE=Dead Madman;33966755]It looks all fun and games but it must be awful literally living at work. But then again it's not that bad because, well, you're in space :v:[/QUOTE] It will be bad when you return to Earth because of your muscle mass "degenerating" and your bones becoming weaker depending on how long you're up there
[QUOTE=VaSTinY;33966955]It will be bad when you return to Earth because of your muscle mass "degenerating" and your bones becoming weaker depending on how long you're up there[/QUOTE] Indeed, and for that reason alone they are suggested to not allowed to stay up on the station for at least 3-6 months at a time, if they do it takes a long time for them to recover from the differences in gravitational pull. The typical time for someone to stay at the international station is around 5 months but most stay for longer due to [I]reasons[/I]. There are also methods they use to decrease the level of muscle degenerating but it still happens no matter what you do, plus it also depends on your own body in the end, low gravity affects everyone else differently. Still must be interesting being in low gravity, so many things you can do which you normally can't under earth's conditions let alone the amazing views they get.
Andre Kuipers (the fifth guy) went to my Secondary school. everybody here talks about him holy shit
We need more international space projects. Seems like pooling the budgets of every space agency in the world is the only way we're going to do anything really big
Andre Kuipers said 2011 instead of 2012. Oh well.
[QUOTE=smurfy;33968432]We need more international space projects. Seems like pooling the budgets of every space agency in the world is the only way we're going to do anything really big[/QUOTE] Moon base, really, we need a moon base. Inflatable domes partially submerged in the lunar surface.
Anyone else see this? [img]http://content.screencast.com/users/Spah/folders/Jing/media/71c0f6ed-6c1b-4294-b777-279f66843024/2011-12-30_1615.png[/img] Grammar Nazis. All of them.
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