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> I found out about the data stream from https://iss-mimic.github.io/Mimic/ https://iss-mimic.github.io/Mimic/, which has considerably more and more interesting

by btown 2y ago

> I found out about the data stream from https://iss-mimic.github.io/Mimic/ https://iss-mimic.github.io/Mimic/, which has considerably more and more interesting stats than just how full the piss tank is. > I will not be adding any of them. This, right here, is how you communicate non-goals of a project. Just perfect open-source communication best practices. We all stand to learn from this project. (Though, predictably, some of us sit to interact with it.)

omoikane 2y ago
> https://iss-mimic.github.io/Mimic/ https://iss-mimic.github.io/Mimic/ Be sure to also read the project page: https://github.com/ISS-Mimic/Mimic https://github.com/ISS-Mimic/Mimic
spoonfeeder006 2y ago
All that data seems would be really helpful to help me do some nasty social engineering with the ISS and crew Only thing now is how to haul my ass up there to do that
- dylan604 2y ago
  > Only thing now is how to haul my ass up there to do that If you take a ride on Starliner, you might need to ensure your schedule is extremely flexible
- brian-armstrong 2y ago
  "I'm calling about your space station's extended warranty"
voxelghost 2y ago
I don't know why, but I imagine a situation where all communication has broken down, and the only working sensor is the one in the piss-tank, and the astronauts have to communicate in morse by modulating the delta in the tank. And some guy with ADHD, and this menu bar app installed, is going to figure out whats going on what is going on, and save them all. (Hey, Hollywood - if this turns into a movie - I want my royalties)
- semitones 2y ago
  Brilliant!
- dhosek 2y ago
  The hardest thing for me to believe in The Martian was that one of the astronauts would have brought a book with a printed ASCII table in it.
  - dclowd9901 2y ago
    I mean, why even use an ASCII table at that point? For initial comm you could just do A=0, B=1 etc. for initial comms (until you get to the point you want to reprogram the eeprom) you can have higher bandwidth communication.
    - hoten 2y ago
      If I remember correctly, the book addressed this. 26 division of a circle was too much for reliable determination of which sign the camera was pointing at, so 16 (hex) made the angles more workable. If we're talking efficiency, I wonder why he didn't consider Morse code. Well I guess that's easy, even though it's faster it takes a skilled operator to read it in realtime, and he had little time to write any individual bit of information down (cumbersomely writing in sand is slow)
      - Thorrez 2y ago
        You can't represent 26 possibilities with a single hex digit. So it'll require 2 hex digits. If you're going to require 2 digits, then that can be done with 2 decimal digits as well. So there's no need for hex, and no need for ascii tables. However, if you need more than just the 26 letters, e.g. if you also need numbers and/or punctuation, then ascii might be useful, and hex might be useful to encode ascii into 2 digits.
        vasco 2y ago
        If I send you this: 48697468657265 Why do I need to send it to you 2 digits at a time? It's valid hex that converts to ascii, only 1 symbol at a time, which is how he communicated. He could've done it with just a card for 0 and another for 1 if he really wanted.
yieldcrv 2y ago
Nice, time for a rebasing token that rebases to the Airlock Pressure value scam some boomers with Real World Assets(tm)
LeftHandPath 2y ago
Dear, this is a dangerous bit of information to discover. Incredibly tempted to spend wayyy too much time making an SVG of the ISS and animating it based on this.
- pyrolux 2y ago
  Umm yes yes and if you do that the ISS mimic team would be very interested in seeing it (and more so if it could be integrated into our program :) )
  - LeftHandPath 2y ago
    I've been spending about ~10 hours a day on a startup idea I had recently, but if that falls through, I'll be in touch

by btown 2y ago

omoikane 2y ago

> https://iss-mimic.github.io/Mimic/ https://iss-mimic.github.io/Mimic/ Be sure to also read the project page: https://github.com/ISS-Mimic/Mimic https://github.com/ISS-Mimic/Mimic

spoonfeeder006 2y ago

All that data seems would be really helpful to help me do some nasty social engineering with the ISS and crew Only thing now is how to haul my ass up there to do that

dylan604 2y ago
> Only thing now is how to haul my ass up there to do that If you take a ride on Starliner, you might need to ensure your schedule is extremely flexible
brian-armstrong 2y ago
"I'm calling about your space station's extended warranty"

voxelghost 2y ago

I don't know why, but I imagine a situation where all communication has broken down, and the only working sensor is the one in the piss-tank, and the astronauts have to communicate in morse by modulating the delta in the tank. And some guy with ADHD, and this menu bar app installed, is going to figure out whats going on what is going on, and save them all. (Hey, Hollywood - if this turns into a movie - I want my royalties)

semitones 2y ago
Brilliant!
dhosek 2y ago
The hardest thing for me to believe in The Martian was that one of the astronauts would have brought a book with a printed ASCII table in it.
- dclowd9901 2y ago
  I mean, why even use an ASCII table at that point? For initial comm you could just do A=0, B=1 etc. for initial comms (until you get to the point you want to reprogram the eeprom) you can have higher bandwidth communication.
  - hoten 2y ago
    If I remember correctly, the book addressed this. 26 division of a circle was too much for reliable determination of which sign the camera was pointing at, so 16 (hex) made the angles more workable. If we're talking efficiency, I wonder why he didn't consider Morse code. Well I guess that's easy, even though it's faster it takes a skilled operator to read it in realtime, and he had little time to write any individual bit of information down (cumbersomely writing in sand is slow)
    - Thorrez 2y ago
      You can't represent 26 possibilities with a single hex digit. So it'll require 2 hex digits. If you're going to require 2 digits, then that can be done with 2 decimal digits as well. So there's no need for hex, and no need for ascii tables. However, if you need more than just the 26 letters, e.g. if you also need numbers and/or punctuation, then ascii might be useful, and hex might be useful to encode ascii into 2 digits.
      - vasco 2y ago
        If I send you this: 48697468657265 Why do I need to send it to you 2 digits at a time? It's valid hex that converts to ascii, only 1 symbol at a time, which is how he communicated. He could've done it with just a card for 0 and another for 1 if he really wanted.

yieldcrv 2y ago

Nice, time for a rebasing token that rebases to the Airlock Pressure value scam some boomers with Real World Assets(tm)

LeftHandPath 2y ago

Dear, this is a dangerous bit of information to discover. Incredibly tempted to spend wayyy too much time making an SVG of the ISS and animating it based on this.

pyrolux 2y ago
Umm yes yes and if you do that the ISS mimic team would be very interested in seeing it (and more so if it could be integrated into our program :) )
- LeftHandPath 2y ago
  I've been spending about ~10 hours a day on a startup idea I had recently, but if that falls through, I'll be in touch