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PostPosted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 2:19 pm    Post subject: Space Shuttle Pic Reply with quote

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Can you see what's in the left hand window? I've heard of an iPod Shuffle but this must be the new iPod Shuttle!
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 2:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's obviously a low crime area - can you imagine leaving an iPod on display in a car like that Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 2:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Laughing Out Loud, I can't see any ring marks so at least the GPS has been hidden from prying eyes Wink
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 2:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah but if you look they've also gone out and left the back doors open, just like the old days.

And the Sky dish hasn't been nicked either....
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 2:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Darren wrote:
Laughing Out Loud, I can't see any ring marks so at least the GPS has been hidden from prying eyes Wink

No, it was nicked on the outward journey Laughing
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 2:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Some body is going to be in trouble when they get back, left the shopping list stuck to the window Laughing
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 2:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Laughing Out Loud, I can't see any ring marks so at least the GPS has been hidden from prying eyes Wink

...being slightly more serious - if GPS works for docking space vehicles to a space centre, then (presumably) there's no reason why GPS wouldn't work on the Shuttle
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 2:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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...being slightly more serious - if GPS works for docking space vehicles to a space centre, then (presumably) there's no reason why GPS wouldn't work on the Shuttle

Indeed not, they use GPS on the Shuttle already and the new ESA Space Truck is using it for automatic guidance to the ISS.

GPS orbit is way farther out than any Shuttle or ISS orbit so it works fine albeit the software might need tweaking else it'd be confused by the increased number of satellites it can see over a ground based receiver.

Now what's that I see in the left hand window?


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PostPosted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 2:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Laughing Out Loud, I can't see any ring marks so at least the GPS has been hidden from prying eyes Wink


Its hanging out of the cargo door - think you need some glasses - clue, its got a big dish on the end of it Laughing
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 2:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Somebody soesn't know their left from their right Rolling Eyes

the iPod was quoted as being in the LEFT hand window

now, the GPS is quoted as being in the left hand window, but on the opposite side


Just a minute - in the glovebox, is that one of the Black Dyke CDs acquired from DennisN's van? (Mind you, he always thought his music taste was out of this world Cool)
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 2:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Must get back to my work desk now - already been in trouble with the boss taday - Boss said, you should have been here at 9 - I responded 'why what happened' - he was not amused.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 3:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

By the way, if the astronouts are taking the pictures then who's flying the ship?
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 3:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Somebody soesn't know their left from their right Rolling Eyes

the iPod was quoted as being in the LEFT hand window

now, the GPS is quoted as being in the left hand window, but on the opposite side

Ah but I'm the Shuttle Pilot, I was on the ISS when I first posted and now I'm back on the Shuttle main deck Stop it!
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 5:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sorry for being ''On Topic'' in this Off topic area, BUT the shuttle uses military spec GPS which works to a far higher altitude than commercial grade devices, take your average TomTom or Garmin on that rocket and it will not know where it is before the SRB's have finished their firework display in the initial 2 minutes of the climb, it wold take far more than a simple tweek of the software for comercial units to work up there - Mike
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 6:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Darren wrote:
Laughing Out Loud, I can't see any ring marks so at least the GPS has been hidden from prying eyes Wink

Its hanging out of the cargo door - think you need some glasses - clue, its got a big dish on the end of it Laughing

Now that's what I call a proper RDS-TMC aerial! I bet they know all the traffic jams up there.

mikealder wrote:
it would take far more than a simple tweak of the software for commercial units to work up there

Aw c'mon Mike - you'd fix it up in two shakes of a number two Phillips. Thumbs Up (and a spell-checker) Twisted Evil
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