Star Trek on the ISS

[Brent]

Found this, thought it was neat:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/behindscenes/star_trek.html

Many moviegoers likely will have to sit in crowded theaters to watch the new "Star Trek" movie, but not NASA astronaut Michael Barratt. He got the opportunity to watch the film aboard the International Space Station while he and two crewmates fly 220 miles above Earth. The only thing missing was the popcorn.

The film's production company, Paramount Pictures, transferred "Star Trek" to NASA's Mission Control in Houston, which then uplinked the film to the space station. Barratt watched the film Friday on a laptop computer inside the Unity module.

I wonder how long it took to upload from Houston, what kinda bandwidth do they get between the ISS and Earth?

 

[Docbrown777]

The only thing missing was the popcorn.

We can put a man on the moon but we can't put popcorn in space?!?!

D*mn you science!!!

 

[trekkiedane]

The thing that I don't understand is that it took several hours for NASA engineers to compress the film - haven't they heard of Super©? -OR did they just want to watch it themselves a couple of times first??

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Forget Star Trek - they had the Eurovision Song Contest live from the ISS tonight!

 

[trekkiedane]

Forget Star Trek - they had the Eurovision Song Contest live from the ISS tonight!

Oh, those poor, poor astronauts

 

[Squiggy]

Forget Star Trek - they had the Eurovision Song Contest live from the ISS tonight!

Oh, those poor, poor astronauts

They know what they did.

 

[Capn Flukie]

In space no one can hear you sing.

 

[Holdfast]

Forget Star Trek - they had the Eurovision Song Contest live from the ISS tonight!

Poor sods. And they don't even allow booze up there to make it bearable, right?

 

[trekkiedane]

Forget Star Trek - they had the Eurovision Song Contest live from the ISS tonight!

Oh, those poor, poor astronauts

They know what they did.

Indeed, I accept that the punishment for down (or is it up in this case) loading Star Trek must be exceptionally hard.

But this is truely cruel and unusual!

 

[JustAFriend]

Isn't beaming Star Trek to the ISS astronauts kinda like forcing a quadriplegic to watch porn???

;-)

 

[FPAlpha]

The thing that I don't understand is that it took several hours for NASA engineers to compress the film - haven't they heard of Super©? -OR did they just want to watch it themselves a couple of times first??

They should've just sent this to some filesharing groups.. 2 hours later (or even faster) and they would have gotten a perfect XVid copy of 700MB or 1,4 GB

When people can have decent internet speeds using a cellphone surely the Nasa can send some 1,4 GB of data up to the ISS.

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

My guess is they spent the whole time coming up with a scheme to reposition Titan so that noone would point out that Saturn's rings are positioned wrong. That way they wouldn't have to deal with potential nitpickers on the ISS.

Next up: Inventing warp drive.

 

[Brent]

Next up: Inventing warp drive.

i'd just settle for impulse engines right now

and fusion power

 

[FPAlpha]

I want busty, barely clothed green women!

Can NASA do that?

 

[Mike Farley]

So we can assume that every single person at NASA has a bootleg copy of the movie taken directly from the official Paramount source?

 

[gwud]

I think thats great. Not just that it's possible, but that they took the time to send it into space. Excellent