NASA TV

Benji · Post by **Benji** » Thu Jun 19, 2003 10:29 am

I'm watching NASA TV now, an earlier recorded interview for CBS News. Edward Lu was just playing the theme to Peanuts on the piano (in the ISS) and is talking about conserving water and making sure not to throw away any wet towels or sweaty clothes until they are dry. You know, the stuff you learn in the shuttle systems lecture, if you're awake. Yuri Malenchenko is being pretty quiet. They're preparing to record personal messages.

Technology is amazing. From right here on my computer, I can not only see and hear people 240 miles above the Earth, but know what temperature they're experiencing inside (24.2 C) and what the pressure is (14.4 psi) and more.

You probably think this is so dull, but I'm inftuated with it. It isn't new technology (as technology goes), but it is still amazing. I'm always struck with what computers can do.

Boomerang · Post by **Boomerang** » Thu Jun 19, 2003 10:56 am

I also love NASA TV either on the net or on tV at the space center. And your right computer technology has come along way i mean look we flew to the moon with a computer with less memory than some peoples cell phones have now. Heck you dont even have to go back that far just look at how far computers have come in the last 20 or for that matter even 10 years.

Benji · Post by **Benji** » Thu Jun 19, 2003 12:02 pm

It was Bill Gates who said that there would never be computers in peoples' homes. The person who was really on top of the ball is the IBM guy who said that precessing power would double every 18 months or something like that.

Boomerang · Post by **Boomerang** » Thu Jun 19, 2003 12:09 pm

True Benji and i can only imagine what computers will be like when i have kids. Heck when i went to space camp the first time i think the only time we even used a computer was during the shuttle mission now they are a regular part of the porogram. Heck i didnt even have the internet till the third time i went to camp and at that time it wasn't anything special to me now i'm on it all the time.

Post by **Vincent** » Thu Jun 19, 2003 1:45 pm

False, Benji.

Bill Gates, along with his friend, Paul Allen, had a dream that some day every home would have on every desk a computer. It was this that caused Bill Gates to leave Harvard and start Microsoft.

Further, it was Gordon Moore of Intel that came up with "Moore's Law" which says (roughly) that the power of microprocessors doubles every 18 months...

stargazer0105 · Post by **stargazer0105** » Thu Jun 19, 2003 2:24 pm

Actually it was an IBM (YUCK...grrrrrr....) executive who said that computers would never catch on.

Benji · Post by **Benji** » Thu Jun 19, 2003 4:38 pm

Alright, alright! I can never get the details straight, I know that. Believe me, I know people a lot worse than me. Thanks for the corrections.

Mdanner423 · Post by **Mdanner423** » Thu Jul 17, 2003 3:00 pm

You have to love Nasa TV, im so glad it comes free with Dish Network!

spacecampaddict28 · Post by **spacecampaddict28** » Sat Jul 26, 2003 11:50 pm

I miss my NASA TV. It isn't coming in on digital cable again.......