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Space porn

Albatross

Albatross

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It looks like a Mass Effect poster..:awe:
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http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-28/html/iss028e005671.html
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Locut0s said:
The tech really isn't that amazingly advanced. It IS amazing from a human /philisophical perspective but most of the tech is similar to what was designed in the 60s.
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Yeah, it is definately more impressive just from t he thought of "hey, wow, we have gone so much further from Earth than most people can comprehend."

They tech evolution is less impressive than the science and mathematical developments behind the process.
 
and it's pretty amazing how quickly we've gotten to this point. imagine what even another thousand years will give us, if we make it that far. imagine a million years...it's impossible
 
Locut0s said:
The tech really isn't that amazingly advanced. It IS amazing from a human /philisophical perspective but most of the tech is similar to what was designed in the 60s.
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Hey! That's not true! The 30 or so control computers are 386's. They came out in the 80's!
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In the picture in the OP you can see the three large port side radiators, the European Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV has the 4 solar arrays in an X shape), and I believe a Russian Soyuz (could be a Progress supply vehicle - they look similar). This is the aft end of the ISS.
 
slayer202 said:
and it's pretty amazing how quickly we've gotten to this point. imagine what even another thousand years will give us, if we make it that far. imagine a million years...it's impossible
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Thousand years, million years!? The way our species abuses ourselves and the little oasis of a planet we have in the desert of the cosmos we better take things one century at a time. Would indeed be wonderful to see where we are in a thousand years but I'm not all that confident it won't be some apocalyptic future, if we are still around.
 
PlasmaBomb said:
I think you are looking at cooling fins?

Expand the picture and you can clearly see the PV panels.
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Oooh. Yeah, I see that now. Wikipedia here I come. :awe:

Hmm. Do you know the technical name? I googled 'space satellite cooling fins' and some other stuff without success. Why do they need cooling fins in space? Isn't cold as balls anyway?
 
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Bill Brasky said:
Oooh. Yeah, I see that now. Wikipedia here I come. :awe:

Hmm. Do you know the technical name? I googled 'space satellite cooling fins' and some other stuff without success. Why do they need cooling fins in space? Isn't cold as balls anyway?
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You need cooling to get rid of excess heat - think of a vacuum flask, it keeps it's contents warm regardless of external temperature because vacuums don't conduct heat well.

So when the sun is shining on the ISS it will heat up and because it's encased in a near vacuum it can't dissipate the heat easily. If you didn't do anything about it the astronauts would cook.

A couple of articles that may help -

Cooling

Cooling

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Bill Brasky said:
Oooh. Yeah, I see that now. Wikipedia here I come. :awe:

Hmm. Do you know the technical name? I googled 'space satellite cooling fins' and some other stuff without success. Why do they need cooling fins in space? Isn't cold as balls anyway?
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Like I said above above they are the port side radiators. We run ammonia through the radiators to chill the fluid and the pass it through a heat exchanger to cool off the water loops we use inside the vehicle.

While space is cold radiation sucks as a heat removal method so overtemping electrical equipment is a problem if the cooliing loops go down.

<- Works in ISS mission control
 
Paratus said:
Like I said above above they are the port side radiators. We run ammonia through the radiators to chill the fluid and the pass it through a heat exchanger to cool off the water loops we use inside the vehicle.

While space is cold radiation sucks as a heat removal method so overtemping electrical equipment is a problem if the cooliing loops go down.

<- Works in ISS mission control
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You sir have a cool job. 😛
 
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