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Chris Hadfield's videos and photos from this expedition have been really interesting; his interactions with the public are great and he's answering a lot of fun

Chris Hadfield's videos and photos from this expedition have been really interesting; his interactions with the public are great and he's answering a lot of fun questions.

zalew 14y ago
yeah, his Google+ feed is amazing. all this expeditions are very expensive and serious, and meanwhile he's like "hey, lets make it fun for everybody down there who's curious. oh hai from space, here's a photo of your city and cool tricks with no gravity".
- goyalpulkit 14y ago
  Here are his Google+ posts: https://plus.google.com/+ChrisHadfield/posts https://plus.google.com/+ChrisHadfield/posts
- kaybe 14y ago
  huh. let me cite a speech I heard recently (celebration of 10 years of columbus module in space).. (approximately, it's from my mind) .. "The ISS hat two mission objectives, (I) to bring the international community together for collaboration and friendship - this has been accomplished very well, and (II) to do some meaningful science up there, which has not been accomplished at all as of yet. Thus, it's your job to invent meaningful experiments to make the ISS more than a toy." (in the direction of the present students, not the Columbus module team) What do we learn from this? They need and want input, and they need justification for the expense. The stuff shown here is thus entirely within the official line of the ISS teams.
  - noselasd 14y ago
    Well, there's a lot of science done at the ISS. They're usually running between 100-150 "experiments" at any given time. Most of these do meaningful science. As we all should know, research and science doesn't always lead to something tangible though, but even in the cases it doesn't, it tells a lesson. Wikipedia lists some of them, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_research_on_the_International_Space_Station http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_research_on_the_Inte..., and just few weeks ago, results from the AMS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Magnetic_Spectrometer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Magnetic_Spectrometer) provided some of the most tangible measures we have of dark matter.
    - TeMPOraL 14y ago
      RE ISS and dark matter, I just accidentally stumbled into this: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=5736 http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=5736
  - kaybe 14y ago
    (make that 5 years, sorry)

Chris Hadfield's videos and photos from this expedition have been really interesting; his interactions with the public are great and he's answering a lot of fun questions.

zalew 14y ago

yeah, his Google+ feed is amazing. all this expeditions are very expensive and serious, and meanwhile he's like "hey, lets make it fun for everybody down there who's curious. oh hai from space, here's a photo of your city and cool tricks with no gravity".

goyalpulkit 14y ago
Here are his Google+ posts: https://plus.google.com/+ChrisHadfield/posts https://plus.google.com/+ChrisHadfield/posts
kaybe 14y ago
huh. let me cite a speech I heard recently (celebration of 10 years of columbus module in space).. (approximately, it's from my mind) .. "The ISS hat two mission objectives, (I) to bring the international community together for collaboration and friendship - this has been accomplished very well, and (II) to do some meaningful science up there, which has not been accomplished at all as of yet. Thus, it's your job to invent meaningful experiments to make the ISS more than a toy." (in the direction of the present students, not the Columbus module team) What do we learn from this? They need and want input, and they need justification for the expense. The stuff shown here is thus entirely within the official line of the ISS teams.
- noselasd 14y ago
  Well, there's a lot of science done at the ISS. They're usually running between 100-150 "experiments" at any given time. Most of these do meaningful science. As we all should know, research and science doesn't always lead to something tangible though, but even in the cases it doesn't, it tells a lesson. Wikipedia lists some of them, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_research_on_the_International_Space_Station http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_research_on_the_Inte..., and just few weeks ago, results from the AMS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Magnetic_Spectrometer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Magnetic_Spectrometer) provided some of the most tangible measures we have of dark matter.
  - TeMPOraL 14y ago
    RE ISS and dark matter, I just accidentally stumbled into this: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=5736 http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=5736
- kaybe 14y ago
  (make that 5 years, sorry)