I just discovered that the ISS has a Ustream channel.
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/live-iss-stream/theater
I've been watching for a few minutes. The slow rolling of the Earth is hypnotic.
It's shitty standard-def compressed-to-hell-and-back video, but it's a live stream from orbit. I think it's one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen.
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Eh, for shitty standard def, it looks pretty good in my book. It's amazing to me when I see video footage from, say, the early 90's that looks like it was shot underwater. I can't believe I used to see such low resolution at the time and think nothing of it. Now it's painful. This certainly isn't hi-def, but it's pretty clear, at least.
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It was silent for a while and then suddenly Houston came on and started talking about smoke alarms and emergency procedures and I was like shit. But after a few minutes the astronauts said it was a false alarm.
So, back to the peaceful blue.
>load up stream
>some guy's ass
Thanks, Arby. :|
Just gonna leave this here
Peaceful, yet moving at nearly 8 kilometres a second. To put that in perspective, that's about five Rainbow Dashes or just under point three four Pinkie Pies.
Have you seen this tour of the ISS, by the way?
. I watched it a while back and it seems like the kind of think you'd be interested it.
If you don't mind me asking, did you ever give Kerbal Space Program a try?
This was my most-recent "Holy crap, I'm living in the future" moment: Bionic limbs
So you guys are unimpressed that it's in standard definition...WHEN IT'S FROM FUCKING SPACE?!?!?! The fuck?
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Ahaha, really? Apparently sometimes it switches to an internal view when the astronauts are doing something interesting. I left it on for an hour or so and I got the external view for most of it, plus a few minutes of their ground track plotted on a map.
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I love this vid.
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Ooh, gonna watch this tomorrow.
I continue to hear good things about Kerbal Space Program, but I haven't had the time... a coworker also showed me Space Engineer, which looks pretty cool I think.
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That kind of brain/tech interface is really interesting. Driverless cars is another one I'm looking forward to getting better.
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Well, I was just saying that even though it's not crystal-clear, it's still incredible.
Though it seems like if they're pulling down 130 Mbps from the SDO 22,000 miles out...
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I've seen Space Engineer... but I must admit I don't really "get" it. I'm just not sure what the game is, unless it's a bit like Minecraft in space where you spend you time building elaborate things. I could be selling it short because I was seeing shots of the game very early in development, but...
The thing about Kerbal Space Program is that it's just about as real as you can practically make it with a small development team running on desktop hardware and allowing players to make their own rockets. The problems that you face, like the tyranny of the rocket equation, the difficulties of astronavigation, and the problem of orbital rendezvous are the exact same ones faced by real space programs. It's still a simplification, true, though there are lots of realism enhancing mods.
Really, it's the educational game by which other educational games should be measured because it doesn't try and force you the learn a particular lesson. It lets you pick a problem and motivates you to work on it, and, inevitably, you end up reading the wikipedia pages on the Gemini missions and you're leaning things because they're relevant to what you want to do.
(I could get into a rant about how educational policy makers could stand to learn a lesson about learning here, but I'll leave it.)
But yeah, it can end up being a time sink.
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As someone who reads Gemini wikipedia pages anyway... I really should play this game.
Space Engineers is sort of "Minecraft in space," in that you're just a guy floating around asteroid fields mining ores and building structures, but it's super-realistic physics and deformable terrain and technology (it's supposed to take place in the 2070s, and they tried to not get all scifi with the tech). I watched some playthrough videos and it really tickled my fancy.
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I played the KSP demo all day yesterday, becoming proficient in orbital insertion.
I bought the full game last night and played until I went to bed (had to go to bed relatively early because I have stuff tondo this morning).
All I can think about is how to do more new science.
You're a monster.
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PS: A fact they should tell all beginners is that a round trip to Minmus is significantly easier than a round trip to the Mum.