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Anousheh Ansari Blogs From Space
gevmage writes "Anousheh Ansari, founder of the X Prize and the fourth 'space tourist' to the International Space Station is going to be writing a blog during her several day visit, which began this last Wednesday. She says in the current entry that her submissions are batched and she doesn't have a live browser to read comments." From the post: "The next morning when I woke up, I was so excited I slipped out of my bag quickly and flew head down to the Descent Module and flipped around and flew right back up to the Habitation Compartment. As soon as I stopped I realized that what I did was not a good idea! I felt my internal organs doing a cha-cha inside my belly ... I stopped and tried to minimize my movements. I basically become a mummy from that point forward. I only did very small slow movements and even that would make me feel really sick ..."
Seriously, she is hot and likes space. :D :D
...the enemy's gate is down.
ResidntGeek
Shouldn't that be Bloogggggs in Spaaaaaaaaaaaaace?
Yes but no amount of training will save them from sea sickness on the way out. Exposure does that. She should be ok on her third or fourth flight.
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Looking at her website, this woman apparently engages in adventurous stuff like guns and pyrotechnics. Since the site's photos are Flash, I had to screencap this one where she seems to enjoy setting people's heads on fire.
Sure, space tourism for civilians is good and all but do we really want a pyromaniac up there?
She experimentally proved that the iPod works in zero gravity. Now that's an achievement.
A monkey is doing the real work for me.
is going to be writing a blog during her several day visit, which began this last Wednesday. She says in the current entry
I never got my head around that time dilation effect.
I'll probably be modded down for this...
The Astronauts are almost all Radio Amateurs and there's both voice &
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data Amateur Radio equipment to toy with up there (& lots of classes
of school kids happy to speak with a Space Traveller.
For a real buzz (ie, after viewing Earth from Space & all the Science
experiments has been done), this Space Tourist should really try to
make a connection or three with some Muslim schools; I think it would
even be a first (as most of the schools that are selected from the
queue are from USA, I understand).
If anyone can get the suggestion up there to her, maybe she'll be kind
enough to give such schools (or any schools or other Hams she might
find on-the-air, for that matter) a Big Thrill, as well as a model of
what's possible - these days - for a woman of means to do.
Oh, for those who'd like to listen to on-air chats with the ISS, the
place to go for dates/times, frequencies & pass predictions is:
http://heavens-above.com/
Eg, select your location - eg, someplace in United Arab Emerates - & go
- from the selection page to a page like this one:
http://heavens-above.com/PassSummary.asp?lat=25.7
It's also possible to display info for LOTS of Amateur Radio equipped
satellites which are likely 'visible' from your location, eg, here:
http://heavens-above.com/amateursats.asp?lat=25.7
(Not knowing any place names in the UAR, I just picked one from the list that came up,
in response to my entering "*" for Town/City, to get each of the following URLs.)
Enjoy & let us know what you hear!