European astronaut exposes eerie snaps of ISS in Twitter feed An astronaut has posted a series of eerie images showing the International Space Station after nightfall. Entitled "Spooky Space Station", the creepy shots show the claustrophobia and isolation of life in orbit. They were taken by the German ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst, who is taking part in a six-month mission called Blue …
As the walls are only teflon with cheap china-sourced aluminium support, you would be looking at SUCKING DECOMPRESSION HORROR.
Also:
"The astronauts of the ISS certainly seem to have Anglophile tendencies, as they stick strictly to GMT, occupying the same time zone as the cockneys."
Didn't build the Honourable East India Company and all that imperial stuff for nothing, then?
As the walls are only teflon with cheap china-sourced aluminium support, you would be looking at SUCKING DECOMPRESSION HORROR.
Erm, teflon is acid-proof. Even fluoroantimonic acid, the mostest acidy acid there is, doesn't dissolve teflon. Teflon is about the only thing fluoroantimonic acid can't dissolve! So, no Goldfinger-in-space.
The astronauts of the ISS certainly seem to have Anglophile tendencies, as they stick strictly to GMT, occupying the same time zone as the cockneys.
Nice idea but they are probably working in UTC. That was created for situations where timezones made things too complicated (military, computer networks) or irrelevant (orbiting around Earth).
Me? My point? Well from context the article seems to be implying some love of all things British. Now if the astronauts referred to it as GMT there might be some validity to that but I suspect they refer to it as UTC which is a nationality agnostic timezone. When what you're doing has international ramifications it makes sense to pick just one time zone. You could be nationalistic and pick one of the US timezones but generally the world has settled on UTC. It doesn't mean that the whole world loves us :)
"Scientist and true technicians are not for "most practical discussions" - try to tell an astronomer GMT = UTC.... or a someone needing to drive a space station or probe... or just a GPS device.
What about relativity effects?, are the astronauts in orbit not running 38 microseconds slower than earth?
It all adds up y'know
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"I can do experiments into the behaviour of soap bubbles in gravity right here - I'd have more trouble doing experiments into the behaviour of soap bubbles in zero gravity.."
not strictly zero-gravity. gravity up there is roughly 85% of gravity at the surface. The ISS (and its contents) is perpetually falling towards the Earth but missing. ;-)
What strikes me is how messy the place looks. It reminds me of a garage where all the junk is kept or some kids treehouse made out of bits of old plywood and packing cases complete with stickers and purloined road signs. I would have expected a place for everything and everything in its place. I guess houskeeping is not a big priority on the ISS. :)
From your photos i think it would be wise for NASA or whoever plans a manned mission to the 'Red Planet' to have a 'Comedian' on board to keep everyones spirits up during the one way trip to oblivion, as the crew will probably end up doing spacewalks without their helmets, if that's going to be their 24/7 habitat on their one way journey......oh yes, and lots of Valium.
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