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- Hydraulix, on 10/12/2007, -24/+110This won't kill the Zune. The Zune will kill itself.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -12/+83ZOMG! Astronauts use iPods too, just like regular people! I can't believe it. This will definitely kill the Zune!
Riiight... - IsangMahal, on 10/12/2007, -2/+51That's a 4th Gen Ipod... not a 5th gen. I should know... I spank my iPod everyday that damn hard drive is acting up.
- GawtMilk, on 10/12/2007, -11/+56Well DUH! This is simply because there is no social in space. Wait until the colonies come, you'll eat your words.
- Valarauka, on 10/12/2007, -3/+32Well, they work upside-down and sideways, so I don't see weightlessness being a problem....
- max420, on 10/12/2007, -1/+29I think its amusing that everyone is making such a big deal out of this. If I was an astronaut and was going to spend months on a space station orbiting the earth, I would bring my iPod with me too.
- lassel, on 10/12/2007, -4/+30Well maybe the astronaut was "launched" before the Zune was "launched".
- orangekid13, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25"He doesnt look too well to be honest. Looks like he's sick. And look how thin his arms are."
lets see what your muscles look like after months in space not needing to use them... have you ever heard of space before? no gravity...
when astronauts get off the space shuttle a lot of them have bad problems with blood pressure and weakness - pmcall221, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23If that thing wasn't tied down I'm sure it would spin.
- Avisto, on 10/12/2007, -5/+28The difference being you're not actually an astronaut.
- Picard102, on 10/12/2007, -7/+30OMG Nikon lens on the space station, goodbye Canon!
OMG Adidas case on the space station, goodbye Nike!
OMG IBM laptop on the space station, goodbye Dell!
What a bunch of fanboy BS. - kicken18, on 10/12/2007, -4/+26oh shut up, and leave him with his joke
- patrickbwells, on 10/12/2007, -4/+23I'm sorry but we cant have any Apple bashing on Digg, you will need to formally retract your statement and issue a new one regarding the high quality of the ipod line. Failure to do so will result in Apple bricking your ipod by remote in the near future.
- williamdyer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19Just...damn. Imagine being stuck in a tiny can with some swedish dude who hasn't had a shower in weeks singing ABBA tunes with headphones stuck in his ears. Must. Open. Hatch. No. Sound. In. Space.
- jus1haz2, on 10/12/2007, -9/+27He also has a thinkpad
- eirikkk, on 10/12/2007, -7/+24"I can't wait for the second gen zune. "
I think that sums up your experiences with the Zune. - benlundquist, on 10/12/2007, -7/+23So hard drives work in zero gravity?
- Valarauka, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18Whoaaa .. check out the lens attached to the Nikon in front of his knees!
Lots of other droolworthy camera equipment in there too, I see... - thefreshbeats, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16I bets he's using p2p on that laptop also... they can be up there for years... you need new music every once in awhile :)
- pmcall221, on 10/12/2007, -7/+21I would have "Magic Carpet Ride" blasting so loud...
- Jadath, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17You're right, this is the kind of ***** people digg. New MacOS? Goodbye Microsoft. New KDE? Goodbye Gnome. Astronaut playing Golf in space? Goodbye Football.
Btw... the Zune wasn't even OUT yet when Thomas Reiter went up there. If I was Microsoft, I would sponsor all astronauts now. - thatgirlismine, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16Obviously you've never heard of Tang.
- hexdump, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15According to Wikipedia, Swedish astronaut Christer Fugelsang took an iPod filled with ABBA songs with him on Discovery (STS-116), so there have been at least two iPods in orbit.
- Sirusdv, on 10/12/2007, -9/+20Now that's how you know your product is a hit.
- insomniac8400, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13Ladies and gentlemen, what we've seen speaks for itself. The spacecraft has apparently been taken over -- 'conquered' if you will -- by a master race of MP3 players. It's difficult to tell from this vantage point whether they will consume the captive earth men or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain: there is no stopping them; the iPods will soon be here. And I for one welcome our new iPod overlords.
- kicken18, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13well obviously that's why we sit on Digg all day commenting on being an astronaut
- patrickbwells, on 10/12/2007, -7/+17No they don't work. He just brought it with him to look cool. jk.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12I wonder what the WiFi connection is like up there.
- madenosine, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Apparently, he has a Thinkpad running Windows at that...
- MacParrot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Speaking of FUD. Do you ever post anything other than this diatribe of yours? I see the same thing over and over in each Apple post. Writer's block?
- Portside, on 10/12/2007, -8/+16Some guy on a website spots an astronaut using an ipod, and its "goodbye Zune" ?
Please. They take all sorts of ***** up there with them, and none of it becomes an instant must-have item because some guy sitting in a tin can in space happens to have taken on up on the shuttle with him. - WackyT, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9And an IBM laptop. Goodbye Macbook.
- maledei, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11"He also has a thinkpad"
there are 7 on board the iss. here's a pic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:TORU_docking_system.jpg
and the thinkpad wiki article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinkPad#Trivia - reticulate, on 10/12/2007, -6/+14Ugh.
There should be a 'dugg down for fanboy *****' option. - antdude, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-14/hires/iss014e08795.jpg for the bigger image (1.2 MB).
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Buried as lame for the "goodbye Zune" of the description.
Godammit, try to praise your gadgets without bashing Microsoft for a change, you Apple whores! :-P - sparkrainfir, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Editors Note: "...you will see a 5th generation iPod attached to a Belkin external battery pack on the equipment rack directly in front of Thomas Reiter."
the iPod in the picture is a 4th gen. - kicken18, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10Well, I agree with what he is saying, the first couple of gen ipods where utter *****, with battery problems and firmwear (remember the ipod mini) that was BAD. so I think his comment is pretty valid.
- Portside, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9This is an interesting point actually. Do they have internet access on the space station? I don't see why they couldn't.
- Jugalator, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9"iPod spotted in space, goodbye Zune."
Really... I like the iPod, but how old is this story submitter? - cello, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Thinkpad spotted in space, goodbye iBook
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8what about the operation of a hard drive has anything to do with gravity?
- patrickbwells, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5If you examine the picture closely you can see dozens of brand names in the lab. I guess the days of NASA designing everything from scratch are over. I watched the IMAX ISS film and they were using a Makita cordless drill to assemble modules!
- manageMyRights, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8They also use Windows XP and Internet Explorer on the International Space Station. I noticed this watching a Discovery channel special on the station.
- ArnoldTPants, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Astronaut wears white shirt. Goodbye black shirts!!!! I'm a stupid fanboy!!!!!!!!!!
- jamble, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7The quality of submissions to Digg sometimes makes me think this whole social news thing will never work.
- Quix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"He has to be the average age of an Apple poster. About 16."
Which by my math is about 4 years older than flag564, based on his traditionally juvenile and witless comments... - Dominatus, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8Don't even bother, the same people who claim Apple is not a monopoly with the iPod because there are other sellers are the same ones who bring up that Microsoft is a "convicted monopolist" when there are certainly other sellers in that market (including Apple themselves).
- Balanced, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7My first generation iPod was a refurb that looked like it had been through some sort of shoot-out when I received it. It then survived a couple years of me working out with it and taking it places until the drive eventually failed, probably from being dropped one to many times.
The 1st generation iPods were pretty neat. - Molnies, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Yeah I noticed that as well, but I was kind of surprised that NASA is using Nikon. I thought they were just using Hasselblad cameras, guess that image proved me wrong.
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