Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Live video from the Space shuttle

i found something interesting. :)
you can watch live video from the space shuttle if you go here:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30700789

then just click on the link "live video"
i just got to watch a live tour of the inside of the shuttle and the crew. it was pretty cool. i love thinking about all the math, physics, programming and everything that goes into pulling off a mission like that. ooo. happy. i want to learn lots more about everything and then i can appreciate it even more. on Wed. they will start doing spacewalks to work on the hubble telescope. yay.

There is another section: "the hubble story, slide show" and there are matching audio clips of a 6 time astronaut explaining what it is like to space walk and to ride the shuttle during a launch. ...some of the people got into the program by starting out in engineering. hmm. i need to win that lottery for lifelong free tuition. hehe.

when i used to live in FL, i would sometimes go to cape canaveral to watch the shuttle launch. awesome stuff. just watching that and filling awe that science and math can really take you places. far away, exciting-type places. the power of those rockets, and if there was even a small miscalculation the shuttle wouldnt work successfully.

mmm. happy thoughts. and ode to get a free pass to all kinds of super happy engineering programs. just think, many of the things that you imagine when you sit in bed, bored at night. with lots of math and physics, you could stop being so bored and work on bringing those ideas to tangible life. ooo. and then when you run your simulations in your mind to see if they work, you could just run that on Fluent program and get a print out of all the happy math to go with it. and a list of things to improve and stuff like that. the possiblities.

alright. well i stop rambeling and get ready to put in another full day at both of my jobs tomorrow. but one day, yes one day when i have money, back to school for engineering i go! (i love art and the other stuff to have only done engineering while in college, hence the need to go back and collect more) ok. im done. but everyone really needs to go watch the live video feeds. it will inspire you!!!

4 comments:

Christy Joy said...

That is SO cool Jen!!!!!! I've been watching it! I watched Atlantis attach to the Hubble and now they're rotating the Hubble so it's better positioned. This is WAY better than TV or movies or anything like that because it's REAL!!!!!

love ya!

Caitlin said...

i can´t watch it yet because of interent limits - but it brings back fun memories of watching the fluent demo with you! and listening to project ideas and your genious diagrams in surprise places :)
love you! miss you!

Christy Joy said...

You know what I think is really cool!? They experience a orbital sunset and sunrise about once every hour and 1/2. Isn't that cool!!!!

Jen! How am I going to get anything done with such awesome things going on!? They are doing such cool and interesting things! They will be doing spacewalk repairs on the Hubble for the next FIVE days! wahoot! and you can see them walking around and hear what they're saying and I am completely psyched!!!!!! can you tell!!!! ;) :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

Jen said...

well, christy. that settles it. :D i have at last found someone who can share my enthusiasm for this type of thing. Shall we get together this summer and make some rocketry plans :D if we make it big enough, we could even launch our equipment in stead of hiring someone else to put it up there for us. ooo. the possibilities!