While Jill and I are upstanding tenants when it comes to recycling, we evidently lack laundry skills, and were most likely the cause of the overloading and spilled-detergent lessons as well as a two-week “lock down” (not pictured) of the entire laundry room. Let it be noted that we do, however, know how to clean a filter.
According to NASA, “when it comes out, it’s cleaner than most of the drinking water you have on planet earth.”
Lately I’ve been obsessed with NASA video from STS-128, the current shuttle mission. Some of the video doesn’t have sound, so I’ve played tunes from SomaFM‘s Mission Control station, a mix of radio transmissions from Houston and electronic/house music. Last night, when I turned on SomaFM, Mission Control was silent, but the streaming house music was still the perfect soundtrack for watching astronauts float around the space station, affixing things to the walls with velcro and whatnot.
Earlier today, NASA posted the STS-128 Day 11 highlight video. It’s kind of long, so I pulled out a couple of minutes that include a tour of the high-tech toilet that converts urine to drinking water, a bit of zero-g shrimp eating, and a recycled-water toast as the astronauts gather together for their last dinner together.
This is the first in a series of posts that capture real-life lessons provided by my landlord.
As I mentioned in the previous post, I’m designing t-shirts for AcademicFlair.com. It’s a great site, created by my friend Tina, where you can find awesomely geeky t-shirts, tote bags, Sigg bottles and more. Since I have an interest in lasers, I started there with my design ideas. I found a public domain image of the first laser ever made, which used a ruby crystal as the lasing medium. I thought it looked cool, so I imported it into Aviary, a sweet online image-editing tool, and made a few changes. The result:
You can buy your Ruby T-shirt here!
Clearly explained in this flowchart:
