Archive for August 16th, 2005
The record for the most amount of time spent in space have been broken by the Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev. He has clocked up 748 days in orbit as of today.
He beat a previous record of 747 days, 14 hours, 14 minutes and 11 seconds held by fellow Russian Sergei Avdeyev.
Krikalev is currently serving as the commander of the International Space Station (ISS) and will be staying on board until October.
He has also stayed aboard the Mir space station during his 20-year career.
The cosmonaut is serving out a stint on the ISS that began on 14 April. Together with Nasa astronaut John Phillips, he hosted the crew of space shuttle Discovery when they arrived at the station in July.
These guys must be really bored!
Matt
[Technorati tag(s): russia, space, ISS, cosmonaut, Sergei Krikalev, Science, Nasa, John Phillips]
I recently ordered a Bluetooth card for my laptop from Dell. It arrived today in a large box, inside the box was a small plastic bag with the Bluetooth card and the screws to fit it. When I looked more closely I noticed that there was the usual warning about static sensitive parts.
The actual warning ready “Screws: Attention, Static Sensitive Devices”. Wow, this thing must be good, even the screws are static sensitive and were separately wrapped in a pink static bag!!
Apparantly the Bluetooth card itself isn’t static sensitive, that was lose in the main plastic bag. Luckily it worked ok!
Matt
[Technorati tag(s): dell, bluetooth, technology]
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