I Wanna be a Spaceman, hand rails (2008 Dec 02)

[emc]

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap081202.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j8LDZreZ7M

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Nilsson

[orin stepanek]

Where's Waldo? The spaceman almost blends into his background working on the ISS.

There's that horses head again.

Orin

[emc]

Where's Waldo? The spaceman almost blends into his background working on the ISS.

Orin

Yeah, I found him by his feet... otherwise he is well camouflaged.

There's that horses head again.

Orin

Yeah, I like how the Nilsson Spaceman song ends with the Horse Head nebula... can never see too many horse heads... unless your in the mafia.



There's more than one in this picture.

[orin stepanek]

I'll bet Mr Ed won that game; though I don't recall that episode.

A three hour space walk would be quite a trip; about 2 orbits around the old planet?

Orin

[emc]

I'll bet Mr Ed won that game; though I don't recall that episode.

Orin

If I remember correctly, Mr Ed always won... poor Wilbur... he was so out matched.

A three hour space walk would be quite a trip; about 2 orbits around the old planet?

Orin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIPWohR4EYk

I watched this YouTube of the ISS flying across the Atlantic from 1,000 feet up... Although the video makes it look feasible, I couldn't help but see the friction, sparks, breakup, explosions, fragmentation and utter chaos in my minds eye.

You gotta watch out for them artists and their depictions...

[bystander]

A three hour space walk would be quite a trip; about 2 orbits around the old planet?

Won't qualify as a record in speed (race) walking, obviously both feet are off the ground.

[apodman]

emc

I Wanna be a Spaceman

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

I just wanna be a cosmic cowboy
I just wanna ride and rope and hoot
Well I just wanna be a cosmic cowboy
A supernatural country rockin galoot

The Byrds

Hey, Mr. Spaceman
Won't you please take me along
I won't do anything wrong
Hey, Mr. Spaceman
Won't you please take me along for a ride

Steve Miller

I'm a space cowboy
Bet you weren't ready for that
I'm a space cowboy
I'm sure you know where it's at

[emc]

A three hour space walk would be quite a trip; about 2 orbits around the old planet?

Won't qualify as a record in speed (race) walking, obviously both feet are off the ground.

I think space “walk” is one of those funny terms used to psychologically give us ground based folks terminology we are accustomed to when describing a something in a place where the majority of us cannot fully grasp the interacting skills required. Kind of like "Space Station"… when it is anything but roomy and stationary. But the word ‘station’ does provide some sense of stability when your world is hurtling 7.7 km per second 390km above your natural life support.


http://science.nasa.gov/PPOD/y2003/23apr_speedlimit.htm

[emc]

emc

I Wanna be a Spaceman

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

I just wanna be a cosmic cowboy
I just wanna ride and rope and hoot
Well I just wanna be a cosmic cowboy
A supernatural country rockin galoot

The Byrds

Hey, Mr. Spaceman
Won't you please take me along
I won't do anything wrong
Hey, Mr. Spaceman
Won't you please take me along for a ride

Steve Miller

I'm a space cowboy
Bet you weren't ready for that
I'm a space cowboy
I'm sure you know where it's at

Captain Beyond,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXz-UIaauqQ

Elton John,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzrKlEtxTx4

Moody Blues, To Our Children’s Children’s Children
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAGcVMTX0Ns&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na5YgJmvPNQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OlEkOjmUXE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGAU8w3iEyo&NR=1

Moody Blues - Eyes of a Child,
“I'm gonna sit and watch the web
That you will build this day
Will it be a thread of love you weave
Is yours too short away
Then everything will be as you will see in the light

In the eyes of the child
You must come out and see
That your world's spinning 'round
And through life you will be
A small part
Of a hope
Of a love
That exists
In the eyes of a child you will see”

[don]

Hey
Are the yellow hand rails for vision impaired astronauts?

[orin stepanek]

As long as we're doing youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVbGnspgy_8 It was a fun song back in the 50's 8)

Orin

[emc]

Hey
Are the yellow hand rails for vision impaired astronauts?

I don’t know why they chose to finish the hand rails in yellow anodize but I expect it has to do with visibility as you mention… it may also have something to do with weight and cost.

Did you know that the white surface feature provides a low solar absorbance value? Helps keep things from heating up.

[emc]

As long as we're doing youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVbGnspgy_8 It was a fun song back in the 50's 8)

Orin

LOL - I haven't heard that one in a while! Interesting that there is so much on the web about the OEFPPE
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=on ... r&aq=f&oq=

[apodman]

I thought it was a "propyl phenyl ether". Maybe my chemistry teacher was wrong (again).

[emc]

I thought it was a "propyl phenyl ether". Maybe my chemistry teacher was wrong (again).

maybe your chemistry teacher was on to something??

un wide frying propyl phenyl ether

weight loss cooking class chemistry

[apodman]

I first saw it with an iodine atom attached - one "I"-ed.

[emc]

That's because you have a scientific mind 8) ... I have a lost mind ... so I am relatively disconnected from scientific methods.

[apodman]

[emc]

Now my 10th grade chemistry class seems worthwhile. 8)

[rigelan]

Ferrous wheel. HA

[sfcraiger]

no stars in the background?

[emc]

no stars in the background?

Here is a well answered question from a recent post regarding the moon in daylight conditions... the ISS is in a comparable environment as the moon relative to sunlight.

In the Apollo 15 panorama, there are no stars in the "sky." Are they blacked out with photographic license? Wouldn't moon skies be intensely bright with starlight (if you weren't looking too near to the impossibly bright sun of course)? Is this a dumb question?

It was daylight on the Moon, so the camera exposures were set for daylight (short exposure times, small apertures). Set your camera for daylight and then take a picture at night; there won't be any stars. Stars are several orders of magnitude dimmer than a sunlit foreground. The only way you'd be able to see stars is if the foreground were completely overexposed (which the astronauts were taught to avoid doing, for obvious reasons).

Don't let the fact that the sky is black fool you into thinking it's night in this picture.

I expect one could get clear star shots from inside a shadow away from reflected sunlight. 8)

[Chris Peterson]

I expect one could get clear star shots from inside a shadow away from reflected sunlight. 8)

The issue has little to do with reflected sunlight. You can get a clear shot of stars while standing on the sunlit Moon, or floating in the Sun around the ISS. But you would need to adjust your camera for a nighttime exposure. That, of course, would massively overexpose any sunlit object also in the frame. If you had too much sunlit stuff in the field- the Earth, ISS, or Moon- that might produce enough scattered light inside the camera to reduce contrast somewhat, but that's still a secondary issue compared with exposure.