Endeavour Crew To Be Interviewed Via YouTube

gabbo529 writes "Thanks to YouTube, the space shuttle Endeavour's last crew will be available for questions live, while they are in orbit. NASA announced a partnership with YouTube that will allow people to send in questions, in the form of short video clips, to PBS's Miles O'Brien, who will direct them to the Endeavour crew live from space. The whole process will be streamed live on PBS' Newshour YouTube Channel. From the article: 'The interview is scheduled for Monday May 2 at 2:15 p.m. ET. However, it could be rescheduled if the Endeavour mission is running late. The deadline for submitting a question will be April 30 at midnight ET. YouTube users will vote on which questions they want to see answered.'"

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[raises hand]

[elrous0]

How is this pathetic attempt to show your modern relevance any different than any of the thousand other carefully-orchestrated canned interviews with pre-screened questions that you've done on the last 133 space shuttle missions, and why should anyone give a shit about this transparently obvious PR stunt aimed at generating just enough public interest to keep NASA's budget at the same decrepit state it's been at since the end of the Apollo missions 40 years ago?

Oh, and could you please tell us what it's like to eat and drink in space?

Miles O'Brien

[Hatta]

I'd be more interested in asking Chief Petty Officer Miles O'Brien questions about transporter technology.

Re:Miles O'Brien

[Thelasko]

You jest, but this Miles O'Brien used to be chief science correspondent at CNN, until they sadly disbanded their science reporting unit:(

Re:Sex

[JockTroll]

You can, but the Vomit Comet grants you max 25 seconds of freefall. That's scarcely twice the length of the average shot in a porn movie which is about 10-15 seconds depending on the director (Antonio Adamo goes for about 10 seconds ASL while Viv Thomas easily surpasses the 30 seconds mark). Considering that your typical porn scene averages 10 minutes from fellatio initiation to facial shot, you're racking up some valuable aircraft time. And we're not even talking about reshoots. Might as well send the whole cast and crew on the ISS.