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Go for capture!

8) 8)

Now it's in the hands of the ISS crew!

15 meters.

Turned on 5 lights on the ISS to help during orbital night.

GO for 10 meter!

Maaaan this is exciting. 30 m hold point reached.

(Though a lot of people will compare this to watching paint dry, I'm afraid...   )

interesting, but the background of the forum makes it very hard to read for long stretches ...

Friendly ribbing: You obviously don't work in the data-preservation industry, heehee!

At the moment, despite all precautions, and rah rah, digital is still *very* finicky for long term storage. You have to *actively* keep it 'fresh' or stuff gets unreadable in less than a decade.

On the other hand, I regularly work with paper documents that are hundreds years old, and nearly pristine, and no-one had to do a thing to keep them that way. Store dry and cool.
That's all.

Paper has one big advantage: it's 'human-readable' no machines needed. No software needed.

NASA has tapes it can't read back, they're barely 3 or four decades old. The tapes are okay. No-one builds the spare parts of the readers, so they have a problem.

The toilet part on the other hand is spot on, paper is soooo 19th c tech.

Off topic, but it's very heart-warming to see you back RobS ! 

wowowowow....

Lofty goals. I like that!

He could even use a second stage + Dragon for suborbital tourists to make a quick buck and p1ss off VirginGalactic

Ban that guy. Seriously, he's nothing but trouble with his off-topic judgemental shit.

... If he's not posting alien nonsense.

Stinks like a badly disguised troll.

thanks!

yes, that part I know about, but what's up with the registering to a predefined party?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_ … gistration  there's nothing in Wikipedia saying you have to register green, dem or rep?

(Mods: is asking questions politics? if so, delet this post.)

Happy-belated-birthday!

I might be completely dim here, but that text is Johnny Cash's classic, no? (No idea how popular the man actualy is/was in the US, my dad had quite a selection of his records, here in Belgium (!)

... Though I prefer Nick Cave's version, which is much, much darker...