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Robot Arm Will Install New Earth-Facing Cameras On Space Station
SternisheFan writes Canada's robotic Canadarm2 will install the next two Urthecast cameras on the International Space Station, removing the need for astronauts to go outside to do the work themselves. Urthecast plans to place two Earth-facing cameras on the United States side of the station (on Node 3) to add to the two they already have on the Russian Zvezda module. Technical problems with the cameras forced the Russians to do an extra spacewalk to complete the work earlier this year.
The new version is biofuel-powered: it runs on space-grade maple syrup. So there's progress to be proud of!
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Canada's robotic Canadarm2 will install the next two Urthecast cameras on the International Space Station
Google Earth 10.0 coming. Pretty soon, you'll be able to just type the name of whoever you want into Google search, proprietary backend systems will identify their GPS coordinates using the Android secret location tracking feature, then the Earthcam will be pointed and zoom in on their current position, until their head is visible, and put them on a map with real-time position updating
Yes but it's very difficult to find naturally, but we may have found a planet, it takes five years to get to that may have an abundance of unobmapleium.
"unobmapleium" - ROFL. You, sir, have won the Internet for today - and the sun hasn't even come up yet where I live.
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We're too polite to say noo when our neighbours tell us to install spy cameras in oorbit, eh? But doon't woorry, it's noot spying if the Americans have plausible deniability, eh?
Please restate comment as a hockey analogy.
"Canada's robotic Canadarm2 will install the next two Urthecast cameras on the International Space Station, "
Everybody knows space is full of ether so they are obviously "Ethercast cameras".
Come on editor!
Everything I write is lies, read between the lines.
Please choke on your Tim Horton's, you useless canuck
Yeah, what the world needs is for everyone to be a leader and nobody to just want to make a decent contribution. That'll work out.
Get your lazy butts out there and put those cameras up! And while you're at it clean up your room, it looks like a pig stye!
Harrison's Postulate - "For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism"
It's working out great for Obama: he's Dear Leader of the remains of the free world, and he hasn't made one decent contribution yet.
Oh thanks, I'll take a coffee too, eh.
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It has already been done about ten years ago. The site and business are still alive:
https://www.sat-gps-locate.com...
Everything I write is lies, read between the lines.
Wait...if we have robots to install new cameras, will that mean we no longer have to send people outside for cleanings?
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
The sun isn't up where I live either, I just happen to work graveyard shifts.
Am I the only one who read that as "Urethracast" and not "Urthecast" on the first pass?
... I think the US should pay back with some Gordon Lightfoot YouTube® videos from the US arm.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
Not only is the arm installing the cameras Canadian, so are the cameras! The company that makes them is headquartered in Vancouver.
The other day my screwdriver put together four IKEA cabinets. Thankfully I didn't have to lift a finger.
Really.. Really guys, REALLY! - if we are getting a camera upgrade for the earth selfies there better be new filters. I mean, I totes *HATE* having to deal with the same boring filters. Ugh! I..can 't.. even!
The new version is biofuel-powered: it runs on space-grade maple syrup. So there's progress to be proud of!
Maple Syrup...Maple Syrup. it's not like that stuff grows on trees...oh wait a second... seriously though, just send up good old Canadian Astronauts Chris Hadfield. Those guys have maple in the blood. His sweat alone would power those cameras for years
Urthecast
Is that actually based on some real language, or is just another deliberate sickly misspelling?
I couldn't help being reminded of the word "urethra" when I saw it...
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
So what country needs to be embarrassed by the useless douchebag which is you?
Nah, we keep the space-grade maple syrup for domestic consumption.
What you guys get is just corn syrup and food coloring. ;-)
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
lol which is a lot better tasting :} man i remember the first and only time i ate real Canadian maple syrup,I spit it out is was so bad. Must be an acquired taste build up from childhood.
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hell, it's not even a "robot arm", as that implies it can operate on it's own somehow. It's only a remotely-controlled arm.
Lame, eh.
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?? I've had the real stuff many times back in the '80s - it was freakin' awesome.
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I would say "yours" but you've got that in the bag.
Can only speak for myself and my experience it tasted bad. And i like natural stuff, i make my own sausage,Kielbasa,pickles, a lot of stuff. Its a lot of work but the payoff is great. Not going to lie though i love sweets i love processed syrup 1000%. I know a lot of work goes into making real maple syrup but i don't like. it life goes on
Jack of all trades,master of none
I'm pretty sure that a kielbasa with maple syrup must have tasted real bad. You were right to switch to processed syrup there!
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