Posts : 8735 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 80 Location : California
Subject: Re: Astronaut snaps epic 'Star Trek' selfie in space Tue Apr 21, 2015 5:02 pm
Very cool. It's nice to see brilliant people showing a sense of humor.
I recently read about the ISS finally getting an espressos machine. As a self-confessed espresso freak, I thought that was great. I read the article about the espresso machine and noted this sentence:
Argotec wrote:
The machine is so complex that it weighs about 20 kilograms since there are back-ups of all the critical components for safety reasons in accordance with the specifications agreed upon with the Italian Space Agency.
Funny. My old earth-style espresso machine weighs more than twenty kilograms.
NoCoPilot
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Subject: Re: Astronaut snaps epic 'Star Trek' selfie in space Tue Apr 21, 2015 7:44 pm
There is no gravity on the ISS. How do they know it weighs 20kg? More to the point, how the fuck do you make, and drink, espresso in zero g?
_Howard Admin
Posts : 8735 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 80 Location : California
Subject: Re: Astronaut snaps epic 'Star Trek' selfie in space Wed Apr 22, 2015 7:58 am
Just a wild guess, but they may have weighed it on Earth.
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