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Podcasting from Space

Posted by samzenpus on from the no-one-can-hear-you-podcast dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Podcasting has officially made it into orbit! According to a Geekzone article, Mission Specialist Steve Robinson delivered a short monologue off the southeast tip of Indonesia in which he described the morale of the Discovery crew at the end of their well-publicized mission: 'It's been a fantastic mission up here, absolutely amazing. Some of the hardest work that any of us have ever done. We haven't had a whole lot of sleep, and we've been extremely busy and really happy.' A transcript of the podcast as well as the MP3 itself can be found at Nasa's site."

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  1. Apple Astorturfing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "Podcasting from space"?
    What tripe!

    Hay, fanbois ...
    Apple did NOT
    1) Invent Computers
    2) Invent GUIs
    3) Make the "fastest PC".
    4) Invent Alternate Browsers
    5) Invent "Thinking Differently"
    6) Invent throwing things at "1984"
    7) Invent pretending to be open source.
    8) Invent UNIX
    and did NOT podcast from space.

  2. Re:So lemme get this straight... by Erik+K.+Veland · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    RTFA or maybe HTFP (Hear The Fucking Podcast)

    The austronaut himself calls it a podcast (whether techincally correct since it's no RSS-feed attached to it is up for debate):

    "At any rate I will close this very brief first podcast from space with a greeting to all Earthings and a thank you for your interest and support. Whether you support the space program or not, you're learning from it."
    The keyword here is learning. It's what some particular kind of posters here on Slashdot never do. And in this case moderators too.
    --
    "I tend to think of OS X as Linux with QA and Taste", James Gosling, creator of Java