Pimp our space station

[Night Marshal]

Sure the ISS isn't the most cuting edge thing you have ever seen but damn its its the only space station we have so I'm happy to see the new Solar Panals have beem installed.

If anyone is intrested Space.com has nice lowdown of the whole mission. Also here is the link to Nasa Webpage on the mission. I personally find space.com to be a lot easier to find information.


and some nice pictures
Picture 1
Picture 2

[Zoltan]

Sure the ISS isn't the most cuting edge thing you have ever seen, but damn, its the only space station we have so I'm happy to see the new Solar Panals have beem installed.

I'm very happy to see a progress in the assembly myself! Exciting times!

Even if there are many critics of the station; sometimes, when there's a clear sky at night, watching the ISS passing above my head, a mysterious feeling gets over me: a mixture of joy and excitement, with a hint of doubt: that we might make it after all in the Universe.

[Harrdy]

Reading today how in the next 10+ Years about 20+ nations will gain nuclear potential, and how it would change the way politic is played out... thinking about how mankind begins to colonize the galaxy kinda sickens me... I hope the whole idea of war (esp. with nuclear or worse weapons) is a dying concept, but hope is all I have left in that regard.

On the other hand, self destruction could very well be the reason why we never encountered any aliens... or our potential for self destruction could very well be the reason aliens never contacted us (kinda like a "red flag", I'd guess). Or - and that would be reason alone for abandonment of war, if nothing else - we are the only "intelligent" (that needs to be proven, thou) live in the universe. So I don't know if I should rejoyce when thinking about how we might (most likely WILL) destroy ourselves or watch in horror...

But still, the little steps we take - like the ISS, which is a project (mostly) by Russia and the US, which where arch-enemies some years ago - give a little light of hope.

PeAcE

[Night Marshal]

The found a picture of what the ISS looks like now on the Astronomy Picture of the Day(APod) Its a cool website.

Anyways heres the picture taken for altantis on its way home.

Also with the new solor pannals the ISS should be as bright as venus in the night sky here a website that help you figure out when its flying over you.

[phazedout]

Ageed, alas there's a lot of cloud cover in ireland in September so it's kinda hard to see. I'm also posting to remove the spam thread posted by some moron form the front page.
Mods have been PM'd
Phaze
on the "very little spam on this board generally" ID

[Shr'eshhhhhh]

I can't see any Spam? I wonder if there is such a thing as Vegetarian Spam? Do they eat Spam on the International Spacestation?

"Spamspamspamspamspamspamspamspamspam lovely spam oh wonderful spam spamadyspam of wonderful spam!"

It was a shame they had to get rid of the Habitation Module was cancelled to make room for the planet smashing super laser and all that spam they eat up up there.

"Spamspaminternationalspamspamspacestationspam spam lovely spam oh wonderful deathstarspamadyspam !"

[phazedout]

S,

it's in a thread called "let's talk about me".
Phaze
on the "not attempting to spell that username" ID

[Spoo Junky]

The found a picture of what the ISS looks like now on the Astronomy Picture of the Day(APod) Its a cool website.

I have that site bookmarked at work and check it every day. That's the first thing I do when I get in, after getting my coffee, that is

[Zoltan]

Also with the new solor pannals the ISS should be as bright as venus in the night sky here a website that help you figure out when its flying over you.

And here's an alternative (doesn't need Java installed): Heavens-Above.

[Night Marshal]

Cool, I never under stand why goverment websites love Java and PDF's so much someone who doesn't have much faith in the goverment might suggest its to hind information. Anyways Happy ISS hunting everyone I think the next ISS mission is plained for December.

NM

[Garibaldi's Hair]

Cool, I never under stand why goverment websites love Java and PDF's so much ...

Well, for the non-suspicious among us, it probably has to do with them both (in theory at least) being cross-platform standards. Java, unfortunately, less so than PDF since Microsoft fell out with Sun.

PDFs also have the added advantage of being more practically portable than HTML pages, and (done properly) looking the same on whatever computer you use to view them. It is also much easier to create a PDF than an HTML page and can be done from whatever software you happen to be using at the time.