I definitely had an issue with the person who was the counselor for our session (but definitely not for AC). The counselors at AC were much more relaxed and just were themselves. I think that is a very key thing. There are probably some intergenerational issues but basically I think that we all get ...

I really like the Shuttle Operator's Manual and am sorry it was never with the new glass cockpits. Also some out of date (but maybe good for historic purposes) info. Maybe the authors just lost interest or it wasn't selling-- who knows. I was amused that some reader thought it was "NASA propaga...

No one could accuse me of that! (Acting my age.) I think I act my shoe size. LOL! I'm still glad to see some of us kids are over 40. --des Rich has me beat too! I'm 51 but I always say, it doesn't matter how old you are as long as you refuse to act your age!! I feel younger every time I come home fr...

In space it would be a bit harder. But various astronauts have had cases of space sickness that were fairly difficult. They dealt with the 2-3 days of discomfort. If it were a serious form of ecoli or something it would be more difficult. But most food poisoning is more benign. MC isn't such an issu...

Yes, I am interested for sure!! I have been working on figuring which switches are which on the simulator. Some are not marked yet and areas don't have switches or complete ones. Most likely I will be working with this one next year. This would be a cool thing to have, and I would pay real money to ...

NOVA Science NOW had a whole segment on it Tuesday. Yep its scary. Of course then they mentioned all the ones we might not know about! The close approach (*current* forecasts say we miss it-- with a proviso that it doesn't go into what is called the keyhole, which is a area of space that would sling...

I see we were moved to Von Braun's World. I think this is exactly where this thread belongs! Cosmic ray exposure (though it was gamma rays) and "Man in the Moon Marigolds"? Though seriously, SEEDS was a small part of the LDEF sent on Challenger in 1984. Tomato seeds were exposed to space. ...

Of course, real psychotic episodes (which could happen in space), are much scarier and really quite a lot different. People don't really go nuts ala the movie version. Usually what happens is over time a person will grow increasingly paranoid, suspicious, remote, angry, and irritated over trivial th...

Oh yes, makes me want to work for JPL. I watch some NASA tv on them.

--des

This PongSat thing sounds very cool and would be great if I had the kids more than I do. But this is just a double 3 week session in the summers. In my "real life" I teach reading to kids who can't read. Maybe someday I do this all the time. I am actually working on this, don't know why as...

No no, I wasn't thinking the *kids* could use liquid nitrogen. I didn't even let them use dry ice. I did a demo (although it didn't work). (Dry ice with sand, corn syrup, ammonia, water,etc. makes a very good comet, except there was a hole in the plastic bag and the water dripped out leaving me no w...

Haha! Well I now have to come up with more stuff. I will be doing a little bit of stuff with physiology-- right up your alley I would guess. Some things I have done in the past are testing reaction time. I actually have a whole book (well practically) from NASA on the subject. Depending, I might wan...

Well they didn't explain that much to us. Just said this is the prototype of the interior of the space station. I must of forgotten to ask re: the color schemes. Are you sure you are not related to my late father? He'd go along in a version of "drive by" architecture-- roof is too low, too...

There's an idea. I think my idea was to do something hard like little nuts and bolts. I don't know how much harder underwater will make this, but kids easily handled tiny objects with gloves. (I did a glove box. The kids examined rocks in a box. The main problem was righting a very small dropper bot...

Hey, I have that one!!
Still I don't think I'm selling.

--des

Rich, duct tape is pretty essential regardless! OTOH, I won't have any time to wait for your experiments (wish I could!) as I pretty much have to do this in the next 2-3 weeks. (I have two sessions.) The thing about the simulated neutral buoyancy is that it doesn't matter about the depth. It could w...

Rich, you most likely have MANY more technical/engineering skills than I have (I have zero!). So basically things like this I do, I just follow some idea someone else has (unlike the Mars expedition, which was much more my idea). In the directions I read you take a light wrench (the directions recom...

Maybe it's warmer though? Anyway they seem to add to this site from time to time and make little changes and improvements.

--des

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I'm bumping this one up for the benefit of an educator or two now on the forum. We are having a pretty good summer. "Aerogel" didn't work so well, as I think that I goofed on the formula somehow. Drats! I also tried the dry ice comet and that didn't work either. There were holes in the bag...

Counselor Hotdog, I think you should go for it. I recall looking at the applications way back in, you know, 1871 or so. They weren't online of course. I couldn't think of how I could leave my cats all summer. And now i have another child (dog anyway). So the fewer hitches you have to Chattanooga the...