I'm not sure why it has taken me this long but I finally started following NASA on Twitter. Space has just always been one of those things that appealed to me. It probably has something to do with the fact that there's just so much more to learn about the rest of the universe that the future is really exciting to think about. But anyway I check their twitter feed and see that they have a live video of a fucking SPACEWALK. IN SPACE. I have been so excited all morning listening to them communicate and watching the dude work on equipment that probably costs more than what I'll make in my lifetime. It's just way too fucking cool. Just 10 years ago people designed their Geocities (R.I.P., btw) pages using mainly animated .gifs and now we're able to watch live fucking spacewalks and listen to their coms. I swear if NASA doesn't broadcast live video when we go back to the moon I'm gonna rage.
Also being in the big city sucked because I couldn't watch the Leonid Meteor Showers. I mean, it was cloudy anyway but still. On a clear night I can usually see about 20 stars. And three of those are probably planets.
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A couple weeks ago I woke up at a 3AM, grabbed my iPhone, started the NASA app, and watched LIVE as the Centaur Rocket stage slammed into the moon as part of the LCROSS mission, and never left my bed.
ReplyDeleteIt was incredibly anticlimactic and kinda a waste of time... but that's not the point.
It's cool to see this stuff evolve. The first streaming video I ever watched was of NASA mission control as the Mars Pathfinder landed. It was broadcast with RealPlayer in 1997, which was only a small step up from animated gifs.
-dp