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- XPpro, on 06/26/2009, -1/+120How the camera guy didn't run out of all possible 3 letter acronym combinations by the end of the video is beyond me.
- yocouchdigga, on 06/27/2009, -7/+78winning youtube comment:
"FAKE!
We all know the earth is flat and standing on the back of a turtle, and it's turtles all the way down. The moon was hand painted on the curtain of the night. The Sun[Sol] revolves around the earth stuck to crystal spheres. And our ancestors are incestuous as heck 'coz we are all Noah's children after his ark saved the world from the big flush." - wawilli, on 06/27/2009, -0/+70Laptops all running Windows XP. (19:15 look at the laptops screensaver)
Makes me feel less cheap for not switching over to Vista knowing the ***** SPACE STATION uses XP. - RedSpar, on 06/27/2009, -0/+62Windows XP....IN SPAAaaaaaace!
- Lazaroo, on 06/27/2009, -0/+50Science!
- FeargusMcDuff, on 06/27/2009, -0/+45Stowage.
- reddikilowatt, on 06/27/2009, -0/+40It's like living in an attic.
- scyphozoa, on 06/27/2009, -1/+36HERO OF JAPAN
on an unrelated note, isn't there any way we can get these guys some nicer laptops? - Feraldr00d, on 06/27/2009, -0/+31Anyone know what language he was speaking?
- adremali, on 06/27/2009, -0/+26a youtube comment without a racial slur?
lies. - Regulator980, on 06/27/2009, -0/+23I like how the Japanese module was the tidiest and cleanest of all the working areas. I guess when you're used to living with limited areas on Earth, you tend to maximize your usage through neatness and intelligent "stowage" design. Nicely done, HERO OF JAPAN!
- inactive, on 06/27/2009, -1/+23thinkpads rule
- r0ji, on 06/27/2009, -0/+20Am I the only one whose Youtube HD is always choppy?
- RedSpar, on 06/27/2009, -1/+20Really not all that different from a WWII submarine with food stored all over the ship. More dorm room than starship Enterprise, that is for sure. Fascinating video though.
- Crocuspokus, on 06/27/2009, -0/+17Maybe they should build an actual storage module instead of throwing ***** everywhere?
- mikewashere05, on 06/27/2009, -0/+17http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/facts/acronyms.html
Just go from the top and work your way down ;) - Krissam, on 06/27/2009, -0/+17Where do I get an application form?
- Fishn2, on 06/27/2009, -0/+14You accidently the whole... something.
- wawilli, on 06/27/2009, -0/+13tl;dr
- Xelseragoth, on 06/27/2009, -3/+16For those of you digging me down, all of those are initialisms, which is where you take the first letter or letters of a string of words to make an abbreviation. An acronym is type of initialism that makes a new word. For example: SCUBA is an acronym, NFL is not. Acronym is probably one of the most misused words ever, but I guess I'm the only one it bothers...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym_and_initialis ... - Jikul, on 06/27/2009, -0/+13And if you go to http://www.heavens-above.com you can see the exact time the ISS passes over your heads.
And it's very bright and amazing to see with the naked eye. - melonade, on 06/27/2009, -0/+12How do you get the internet in space?
- brownsin07, on 06/27/2009, -1/+13Zoom out!
- reddikilowatt, on 06/27/2009, -0/+12They have to be certified space worthy by NASA, which often takes years. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if they were only P4s with a few GB hard drives.
But, given that there are high energy particles out there that just pass right on through the shielding without flinching, I'd like to know that my laptop will boot up when necessary, even if it's not the cutting edge gaming machine I have on Earth. Same thing for the life support and navigation systems, which likely run on a hardened 486, given the design timeline of the station. - BlackPhantom, on 06/27/2009, -0/+12He sure likes his stowage...
- wawilli, on 06/27/2009, -0/+11Node.
- kcolwell, on 06/27/2009, -0/+11Loved the fact that about about 10 minutes in there was a giant roll of duct tape attached to the wall. I suppose that is one way to seal an air leak. :-)
- dodger2020, on 06/27/2009, -0/+11Maybe it's because it's up to the individual person? From the wiki entry you pasted:
"There is no universal agreement on the precise definition of the various terms...nor on written usage" - PR1811, on 06/27/2009, -0/+9Not only that one of the laptops at least it still running IE6! Think they need to turn on automatic updates.
- directedition, on 06/27/2009, -0/+9Sure, reduce the amount of ambient radiation circling the globe. They don't use more modern laptops because modern CPUs aren't reliable enough in orbit. While they are still inside the radiation belt and fairly protected, there is enough radiation that microchips made at super-small widths (like our 45nm current generations) are more likely to malfunction. They use modern expensive video cameras inside because if the video glitches out for a moment, it's no big deal. But if the system running your life support or multi-billion dollar robotic systems glitches out, it is a very big deal. And frankly, they don't really have a need for large amounts of raw processing power. They could just easily deligate those task's to NASA's earth-bound supercomputers.
- rockyrobins, on 06/27/2009, -0/+9Waiting for Diggnation ISS
- guinpen, on 06/27/2009, -3/+12you're bad at trolling
- DeskFlyer, on 06/27/2009, -0/+9Nope. A quick fix is to add &fmt=22 at the end of the url which will play the same HD video, but smoother for some reason (works for me anyway).
- yocouchdigga, on 06/27/2009, -0/+8"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
- slicksabo, on 06/27/2009, -0/+7ridiculous amount of acronyms
- DivineMonkey, on 06/27/2009, -0/+7Man it looks messy, that would bother me.
- avengerp, on 06/28/2009, -0/+7The main control laptops on the station run a customized distribution of Scientific Linux. An example of one of these would be the one showing several large lightning-bolt-shaped images. The laptops that the astronauts use for email, music, etc run Windows 2000.
- adremali, on 06/27/2009, -0/+7This is so amazing
- ThatEvilGuy, on 06/27/2009, -0/+7It's pretty amazing that we are technologically "advanced" and we still hardly got our asses off our planet, and the Astronauts have to live like mice in the ISS.
When are we going to achieve interstellar travel? - YazzyT, on 06/27/2009, -0/+7I didn't have a clue what he was talking about 90% of the time, but I liked it! He's in space!
- rabidmonk, on 06/27/2009, -0/+6Hatch.
- inactive, on 06/27/2009, -2/+8No Linux?
- Xelseragoth, on 06/27/2009, -4/+10It bothers me that not even NASA knows the definition of an acronym... *sigh*
- bstew22, on 06/27/2009, -0/+6Bigger than i expected. (i know... twss)
- guinpen, on 06/27/2009, -0/+6It's good to know they brought some towels
- GMH24, on 06/27/2009, -1/+7The only thing "unefficient" is your education, which failed to teach you that the word "unefficient" does not exist.
- Jaq524, on 06/27/2009, -2/+7What?!?! I thought Aero effects were ESSENTIAL to all NASA operations!
- melonade, on 06/27/2009, -1/+6Every time he said that word I thought he sounded like a little kid that couldn't say his R's right yet.
- yocouchdigga, on 06/27/2009, -0/+5way to ***** up the setup...
- groo68, on 06/27/2009, -0/+5Yeah, everything looks sort of thrown on, like they spent several billion dollars to build connecting tubes and then let the astronauts figure out where they wanted to put their computers and "stowage."
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