I don't know if the work of Alfonso Cuarón is widely known, he could be seen as just another Hollywood director for his work on a Harry Potter film.
But his "Children of Men" is an incredible near-future dystopia with the most dramatic long sequences I've seen since Citizen Kane or Goodfellas...
EVA aborted today apparently due to a leak of drinking water in Luca Parmitano's helmet.
They returned to the station 1h35m into the EVA and everything's OK.
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-07/breaking-nasa-aborts-spacewalk-due-water-astronauts-helmet?src=SOC&dom=tw
UPDATE -...
You're going to learn so much about astrophysics from the genius types here (I'm not one of them, my experience of Caltech is strictly from hanging out with them in the student bars a long time ago)
Have fun and make the most of the O-F community.
Welcome young one, hope you enjoy being among the Orbiter Community
I feel the force is strong in you (and meson800 too)
BTW Caltech is fantastic - apart from the super education there's a fantastic student culture there. Wishing you the best
The US engineers said it wasn't GPS hacking because the drone uses primary INS guidance. They said that a GPS hack would have been overridden by the INS program.
Just did a little checking and of course this is nothing like the first automated landing on an aircraft carrier.
This occurred in 1963 on the CV Midway, using a modified F4 Phantom.
http://thanlont.blogspot.com.es/2011/07/look-no-hands.html
I wonder how much the 1963 system cost in...
Gosh I sure hope they actually know where the terrorist camps are, because occasionally they make mistakes and send the killer robots to blow up a school.
Dan, I'm really sorry to hear about your problems, and that you also feel underappreciated.
It's certainly true that we are not as appreciative as we could be, but if there has been a lack of comments expressing gratitude, think of the number of skins and scenarios based around your work. Many...