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Moscow Monitors ISS While Houston Braces for Rita
It doesn't come easy writes "The Johnson Space Center is shutting down while Houston waits for Rita to land. In the meanwhile, Mission Control has moved operations to a Russian control team outside Moscow for the duration of the storm. From the announcement: 'Ground supervison of the station has been shared by the U.S. and Russian control centers since orbital assembly began in 1998. A small rotating team of American experts is always in residence at the Russian control facility, which is active around the clock.' Here's hoping Houston fares better than New Orleans."
I'm not sure which it is, but either Mother Nature doesn't like Sports Domes, or it is following those poor people.
Alright, let's get this out of the way so that no one else has to do it: In Russia, space station monitors you! In Russia, you blow hurricanes!
wouldn't "in soviet union Moscow Monitors you " be better
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Seems like we'd be getting a lot more bang for our tax investment dollars if we got rid of NASA and used the money to outsource all of our space project to Russia.
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Well, actually, good chunks of it are. I was driving around with the altimeter on my GPS this afternoon and most of the areas I was in were in the range of ~-20 to +75 feet. At the moment I'm planning on riding it out. We're not as close to large, standing bodies of water. Yeah, we can flood (see Tropical Storm Allison a few years back), but I expect the windspeeds to drop as it crosses inland.
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It is wunderground.com, not weatherunderground.com...
Accurate link.
In Soviet Russia the ISS Monitors you.
It seems you have a problem.
What in the hell is with all the anti-NASA trolling on the Internet sites lately? I find it really strange that on a pro-technology website like Slashdot that there would be such blatantly ignorant people when it comes to a space program.
Bad economy does that to them...in a sense it's the fault of the White House and Congress.
Well, actually, good chunks of it are. I was driving around with the altimeter on my GPS this afternoon and most of the areas I was in were in the range of ~-20 to +75 feet.
For vertical elevations, I'd trust a topo map instead.
Depending on what model of consumer GPS you're using, you can be anywhere from 10 - 20 meters off in terms of vertical accuracy.
Even without trolling NASA, there might be reason to do what the original poster suggested. Rember Global Warming? If the oceans rise 40 feet, where will Cape Canaveral be?
Sitting in one spot in houston, my GPS altimeter has read anywhere from -100 to 150 feet (actual elevation at that spot was ~60 feet).
Pasadena, OTOH, is low enough that the storm surge might cause flooding.