Podcasting from Space

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."

Comments

Re:Podcasting?

[aacool]

He doesn't have an RSS feed, so technically this isn't podcasting. It's still cool. This bit,

Just incredible to be way out there on the end of that arm all by myself and see no evidence of humans anywhere. Just me and the Space Station and the Space Shuttle from a view that neither I nor anybody else has ever seen, and watch the sun come up over the bottom of the Space Shuttle, and get to sort of drink in that big view. I'll never forget it, and I'll never be able to describe it adequately, I'm sure. But I feel very fortunate to have been able to get a chance to do that. And also very glad that it worked!

"Come here Watson. I need you."

[richdun]

So, we should now credit Alexander Graham Bell for the first podcast?

Re:A haiku.

[Rei]

:)

So many people mistakenly think Haiku is about 5-7-5. Japanese 5-7-5 syllable amounts are only a guideline to begin with, and Japanese word lengths don't translate properly to English word lengths, so it makes even less sense in America (where people stress only the syllable count, and nothing else).

The key aspects of haiku, the elements that help encourage it to be deep and philisophical, are the emphasis on extreme brevity and symbolic or paralelling references to nature. My favorite haiku is by Nick Virgilio, writing about his brother who died in the Vietnam War:

"lily:
out of the water . . .
out of itself"