I used to be “with it” but then they changed what “it” was…
Tracks
Space Oddity (by Chris Hadfield)
Ottawa, Hull & Gatineau sous un nuit de printemps.
I can totally see my house in this photo. OK, no, but I can totally make out where it should be. Far right side.
The Simpsons explain why they are still on the air.
(Source: youtube.com)
NASA Crew Wake-Up Calls (1965-2012)
A PDF with the “playlist” of music Mission Control piped up to astronauts aboard Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, and Shuttle to wake them up.
AMIRITE or AMIRITE, HUH? Get it?
The first example of “that’s what she said.” IN SPACE.
We have made “That’s what she said” jokes in space.
It doesn’t get more awesome than that. … That’s what she said.
The engineering flowchart.
Bloody region locking!
The Coffee App
$pot = new coffee_pot;
$cup = new coffee_cup;
if (($this->hour >= "08:00") AND ($this->hour <= "16:00")) {
if (empty($cup->contents())) {
if (empty($pot->coffee_port)) {
$pot->insert_pot();
}
if ($pot->brewing == FALSE) {
$pot->insert_fixings($coffee_flavour);
$pot->brew_coffee($you);
}
else {
while ($pot->brewing == TRUE) {
sleep(10);
}
}
$cup->fill($this);
}
}
I wish I’d thought of doing this…next reno, I guess.
A recording of another F-Sim Shuttle landing. This time punching through the clouds to runway 33 at KSC.
(Source: youtube.com)
STS-98 Landing at Edwards. Just to show how accurate the F-Sim simulator is when compared to the real deal. See yesterday’s post.
Plus, the included in-cabin comms are awesome.
“Landing @ Edwards AFB”: Using the new feature of the F-Sim Space Shuttle iPhone/iPad app to record a landing from the game. Man, I miss the shuttle…
(Source: youtube.com)
The world’s roundest object helps solve the longest running problem in measurement — how to define the kilogram.
(Source: youtube.com)
