NASA TV
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NASA TV
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.
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.
Ad astra per aspera.
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.
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SA Level 1 1993
AC Intermediate 1996
ASA 1998
Corporate Space Camp 2005
AC Counselor Summer 07 callsign Boomerang
Adult Alumni Camp 2007
Adult Alumni Camp 2008
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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.
Jason original callsign Loverboy
SC 1991
SA Level 1 1993
AC Intermediate 1996
ASA 1998
Corporate Space Camp 2005
AC Counselor Summer 07 callsign Boomerang
Adult Alumni Camp 2007
Adult Alumni Camp 2008
Official Space Camp Ambassador
SC 1991
SA Level 1 1993
AC Intermediate 1996
ASA 1998
Corporate Space Camp 2005
AC Counselor Summer 07 callsign Boomerang
Adult Alumni Camp 2007
Adult Alumni Camp 2008
Official Space Camp Ambassador
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...
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...
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