Astronauts Get Tricoders (Almost)

AzrealAO writes "Space.com is reporting that The Expedition 9 crew aboard the International Space Station are equipped with HP iPAQ PocketPC's, which they are using as mobile productivity tools to record crew procedures, personal memos, check e-mail and calendars. The crew can also listen to music, view photos from home and read e-books. The iPAQs will be left on the station and reconfigured for future crews, and two additional iPAQs will be sent up on the next flight for a total of four."

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Re:Uh, I can't really remember

[MeerCat]

then through something uniquely *human* (courage, freindship, cunning) they win the day despite beging owned in any rational assesment of the situation.

What pissed me off when I watched ST as a kid was that it's not something human, just something adult... every alien race suffers from being emotionally immature and acting like a 7-year-old up past his bedtime on a sugar high... and Kirk always struggles:

Kirk: ... if ... I ... could ... just ... get through ... to them ... to .. SHARE .. their toys ... Spock

Spock: But Captin, to share their toys would run the risk that somebody else might damage them, it is surely irrational

Bones: Why don't we just get pissed and find some whores you retards

Kirk: But I ... AM ... the very MODEL ... of ... a modern spaceship caption... I ... HAVE... no powers of introspection ... or ... self-analysis ... but ... my inherent ... MATURITY ... will always... win.

To do it once or twice as a crappy morality story is OK, but to keep on pushing it for 30 years (TNG, DS9, all the movies etc etc.) is just a bit too much...

The super bad acting etc. is, as you say, just the icing on the cake - Patrick Stewart should be ashamed until the day he dies...

Oh dear, was that my karma evaporating ??