[GreenKeys] send your name to space and maybe to Mars!

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Thu Oct 9 17:19:55 EDT 2014


On Thu, 9 Oct 2014, Gil Smith wrote:

> One oddity, (a space oddity for you Bowie fans), is that once you view 
> the "boarding pass" and click print, it looks like you can do a 
> save-image-as, but it only saves the background image and not your name 
> (kinda the whole point), so I used snipping-tool to grab a section of 
> the screen.

Worked OK for me...  Firefox 32.0.3 on a MacBook running Mavericks.

Speaking of Space Oddity, there is a truly mind-blowing video Out There 
Somewhere(tm) of Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield performing Space Oddity 
aboard the ISS.

Think of an acoustic guitar rotating in zero-G.  Think of Hadfield slowly 
floating towards the ceiling as he sings "And I'm floating in a most 
peculiar way".  Then make your kids see it, for a practical demonstration 
of zero-G.

The original is now gone because he only had permission from Bowie's agent 
to keep it up for a year, but there are many lesser-quality copies around.

-- Dave


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