Thursday, March 26, 2009

Space Station is Way Over Our Heads

From his garage observatory (technology doesn't just shrink laptops, people) in England, Mike Tyrell made a video of three passes of the International Space Station (ISS) over his humble home.

Why this is awesome!
It's the future, bitches! This is the home to 3-4 humans at any given time. The project is a global success and within decades, we're going to look up and see the ISS float by in plain view with our naked eyes. You can see it go by now if the light hits it just right, same with satellites. They just look like floating stars whizzing across the sky.
View the (probably boring to most people) video HERE.

Implications of seeing cool stuff like this!
Imagine cities on the moon that we can just watch through a telescope one day, watching moon-chicks take showers! With tweaking, if we find a habitable planet in the near future, we might be able to view city formations if we can adjust our telescopes with new technology. That would kick ass.
I'm excited about entering a new age of space exploration, people are getting more interested in the cosmos but a lot of education is needed because the #1 thing I realize when talking to people is that they have noo concept of just how god damn big the universe, our galaxy or even just the space between Earth and the Moon is. This is a video that tries to put it in perspective, though the narration is a little bland. Even so, the page will link you to other relevant material, too.

2 comments:

comdyimprov said...

-Hooray!

cooper said...

did you hear about the cosmonauts doing a trial mission to mars? 107 or so days in a simulator.

also: hip hip hooooooray