Month: May 2014

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i gaze blankly – what do you do?

ISS024-E-014263 (11 Sept. 2010) --- NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson, Expedition 24 flight engineer, looks through a window in the Cupola of the International Space Station. A blue and white part of Earth and the blackness of space are visible through the windows.

Here i sit, broken-hearted. Tried to type but barely started.

I gaze blankly - what do you do? ISS024-E-014263 (11 Sept. 2010) --- NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson, Expedition 24 flight engineer, looks through a window in the Cupola of the International Space Station. A blue and white part of Earth and the blackness of space are visible through the windows.
Now you too can stare out a space station window portal. Image borrowed from Wiki…

Of course, anyone with a memory of childhood will be able to replace that little ditty with the far more inappropriate schoolyard humour words – but it suits our needs, don’t you think?

I gaze blankly – what do you do?

So you are online, and bored.

Why?

And more importantly, why is it that you are bored? After all, you have the universe of human knowledge at your fingertips. Nearly as much as the inappropriately vilified NSA people. Vast databanks of information lay patiently awaiting nothing more than a sign of cursory interest from you – the master of more computing power than anything available to the team that put the first humans on the surface of the moon.

Talking of space missions – which we know you weren’t but we may have been…

If you are really, really, really bored, why not jump on a shuttle, escape the earth’s greedy atmosphere and spend a bit of time reclining in the International Space Station, gazing out of a window portal..?

Think it sounds like too much work? After all, we aren’t all destined to be Physics majors with impeccable physical characteristics, unshakeable mental stability and capacity… were we? And even if we were, the simple fact that you are on this site suggests you aren’t likely to use all that spare cranial capacity on a task so intimidating, are you?

It’s ok because here we understand your pathos, sister. Yes we do. Here you are part of a family of underachievers hell-bent on resisting calls for “best practice” or “intellectual leadership” and stuff like that. So we’ve actually spent minutes (minutes, i tell you!) trawling through the internet in an effort to save you some. And what success our weary digits have found. Ready…?

Ta….DAAAAA…!!!!!

A direct-link, live feed to a high definition digital camera super-glued to the side of the International Space Station. And as an added bonus, it’s pointed at the spot that our wonderful blue planet occupies! So lay back, rest, and soak in the visuals of an entire planet rotating below you.

Thank us later.

Actually, if you do then you will be breaching one of the tenets of this site – so feel free to just soak up our munificence, and return to this place of succour and sustenance when next you are online and bored.

Live streaming video by Ustream

Or not.

 

ps… Post image is from the beloved folk at Wiki… http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/95/Tracy_Caldwell_Dyson_in_Cupola_ISS.jpg

and gosh, if the link takes too long and destroys your lunchbreak, maybe go direct to the International Space Station site… they probably pay their bills, while we have trouble going to the post office to collect our bills. ‘N’ stuff…