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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:24am on 2016-02-07

"They now factor in awed-ness when astronauts go up. So Tim Peake, when he went out on his first ever EVA, when he went outside the ship ... They used to have a really tight schedule -- 'Go straight here!' -- they now factor in time because any astronaut who would go outside would find themself just going 'Oh my God, I'm hanging in space, I'm looking at the planet Earth!' and they never factored in time for that. So they're now giving 'awe time', where you can just go 'Aww,' and then get on with your work. So 'awe time' is now a thing." -- Dan Schreiber on the No Such thing As A Fish podcast, episode #98: "No Such Thing As Planet George", 2016-01-28 (about 0:06:34 to 0:07:02)

[I had trouble getting that link to work -- in Stainless under OS X and Safari under iOS 5, with Javascript, it just said "Something went wrong"; in Safari without Javacript under OS X it complained about needing Javascript; in Safari under iOS 9 it worked by launching the already-downloaded SoundCloud app. If it doesn't work for you, maybe the download link will, or you can go to the No Such Thing As A Fish page and click on episode 98 there. Or, y'know, subscribe to the podcast because those folks are entertaining every week.]

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