Iss strong guy, soft wood, moving qi (chi), is not so amazink...My 3-yr-old cousin can tear phone book, so what? Grandma chew light bulb, not impressed much.

No one show this to the guys on the ISS...

Have you seen this one? ISS transit over the moon by Maximilian Teodorescu.

http://spaceweather.com/gallery/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=83288

Yes, but each square foot on the shuttle(s) and the ISS is probably quite costly.

Passing on of the ISS to the next crew

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Had a feeling you would enjoy this.
http://videosift.com/video/Cdr-Hadfield-Last-Transmission-From-The-ISS-Major-Tom

bravo for this kid stating a very serious issue with teaching and one i agree with but i think his ire may be directed at the wrong person as @Yogi suggested and @JiggaJonson implied.

i substituted for a brief span a few years ago.
the reason my time was brief was not due to the kids,they were fantastic but rather it was the draconian and administrative bullshit i had to put up with.the school system was not looking for a substitute "teacher" but a babysitter.a warm body to sit in class and watch kids become catatonic. reading "packets" and qwell any form of disruption.

i was "officially reprimanded" three times due to actually engaging the classes i was substituting.my crime was not the fact i was covering material the absent teacher had already gone over recently but rather that i was talking and engaging the students.

seriously? it still boggles my mind.the teachers who i covered were appreciative of my efforts but the school only wanted me to keep the seat warm.

interestingly enough,those very same teachers convinced me to volunteer my time to tutor troubled teens who are constantly in ISS (in school suspension).thanks to a new principal who helped push through the massive paperwork and help from these teachers this may become an actual program.we have enlisted two more teachers who have come out of retirement and hope to have more tutors soon who are willing to donate their time.

the irony in all this is that the we (the tutors) have huge latitude in how we teach these troubled teens while vetted teachers have huge restrictions.

so generally speaking:its not the teachers.its the system.

you can follow the Commander on twitter (@Cmdr_Hadfield) he regularly posts pictures of Earth that he's taken from the ISS. He's my favourite thing about Twitter.

I'm already a subscriber to Spot the ISS, wherein I receive text messages or emails to notify me when the ISS is overhead. Cool stuff.

Nope, I'm not qualified to do real research into the causes and scope of gun of violence, and apparently neither are you, if you think all it takes is looking at FBI numbers. Just looking at FBI numbers wouldn't associate violent crime with leaded gasoline, but there is an extremely strong correlation there, and a path for possible causation as well.

I prefer to let those with the experience to do so meaningfully, adjust for factors like poverty-levels, drug bans, environmental isses and all of the myriad other inter-related factors. I know enough about it to know that to do it right takes years of study. When you have such training, or if you can point to a study by someone who does, then I'll look into credentials to see if it's worth looking at.

Again, -my- point was that we have no such research, because the NRA killed it. Try as you like to derail that point, I consider it pretty telling.

Skipping off the atmosphere or perhaps colliding with the many many tons of garbage spinning around the earth at incredible velocities? Have you seen the high-res radar scans of all the crap up there? I'm amazed the ISS doesn't get pelted more often...

Are they giving rides? I don't have $25 million for the ISS.

Thanks!

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