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WCDT 2111-2115 (Jan 30 - Feb 3, 2012) - QC in SPAAAAAAACE!!! Week 2!
Soulsynger:
--- Quote from: iduguphergrave on 31 Jan 2012, 23:08 ---Station is slightly more organized enough to appear with pants on the first try.
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Spaceship could've just told Station via wireless. (I am all for the name-versions of those nouns with capital first letters, btw.)
Or Station has much more regular contact with humans that expect it him to follow protocol about how not to unwillingly present your holodong. (This has potential to be a meme, btw.)
Akima:
--- Quote from: Skewbrow on 31 Jan 2012, 21:18 ---I didn't get this. I may be just dense, but do you feel that something essential has been left out?
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I was giving up on people misdescribing the environment in Earth orbit as "zero g". The International Space Station's orbit ranges from roughly 320-400km above ground level, for example, and gravity up there is still about 90% of that on the Earth's surface. Earth's gravity holds the Moon in its orbit; you certainly don't escape it in measly LEO. Edit: Apologies to A.Smith. I didn't notice he'd made the same point earlier.
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 31 Jan 2012, 22:53 ---Station has the same mannerisms as Spaceship; presumably they are running the same kernel.
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There are subtle differences. I suspect Station has known Hanners since early childhood, and is on first-name terms with her like an old family retainer. Spaceship, by contrast, called her Miss. Ellicott-Chatham like an employee. I also notice that Station's avatar does not wear the same "badge" on his "shirt" as Spaceship, so it was presumably pilot's wings. Pilots will always be pilots, even AI ones. :laugh:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 31 Jan 2012, 22:48 ---Also, 128 researchers, security and support staff who get wrapped up in their duties are not likely to be equipped to raise a child...
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Especially if they're spread over 3 or 4 shifts and working in places you wouldn't want a child wandering about.
J:
she's what, 22 now i think? which would make her descriptive phase about 13 years ago. i could see station being in orbit that long easily, but i don't know if i'd want to go to orbit & back in a 13 year old spaceship.
akronnick:
The Space Shuttles were all around 20 years old when they were retired.
Discovery was 27, Atlantis was 26 and Endeavor was the baby of the fleet at 19.
Most jet airliners have a service life of 15-20 years, otherwise they wouldn't be economical to build.
Welu:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 31 Jan 2012, 22:48 ---A staff of 128! There must be more than one shuttle for resupply.
Were there fewer people on the station when Hannelore was a kid? She acts a lot like someone who grew up in isolation, not like someone who grew up in a village.
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Here's what Hanners says about her upbringing. Just because people are around doesn't mean they all have time for you, especially in such an environment. When she was with her mother, she was pawned off to nannies so there it depends how many there were, how they treated Hanners and if he mother didn't regularly fire them so Hanners could actually develop a bond with any one of them.
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