Who knows if it's being broadcast live in the U.S. but RTV is carrying a live feed from the International Space Station in which the astronauts are taking the Olympic torch out for a spacewalk. This isn't exactly Neil Armstrong walking on the Moon but it's still pretty damn cool.
Apparently an Olympic torch has been in space before but has never been out on a spacewalk. Setting aside all the politics, what that torch represents is a beautiful thing and I'm really diggin' seeing it flying live. It's a symbol of international friendship and so is the International Space Station so I really do see this as an exceptional moment. To have been in Olympia not so long ago where the feeling of age and years is extraordinary, it's all the more amazing to see the torch now out on the far edge of what humans are capable of doing now.
I was kind of hoping they would rig out some way to get a flame from it, maybe by supplying it with oxygen and some kind of fuel ... but that would have had the unfortunate difficulty of being highly-prone toward explosion. The other possibility was to use some LEDs or some such but that wasn't possible either and maybe that would have made it look like a sideshow or something.
Apparently an Olympic torch has been in space before but has never been out on a spacewalk. Setting aside all the politics, what that torch represents is a beautiful thing and I'm really diggin' seeing it flying live. It's a symbol of international friendship and so is the International Space Station so I really do see this as an exceptional moment. To have been in Olympia not so long ago where the feeling of age and years is extraordinary, it's all the more amazing to see the torch now out on the far edge of what humans are capable of doing now.
I was kind of hoping they would rig out some way to get a flame from it, maybe by supplying it with oxygen and some kind of fuel ... but that would have had the unfortunate difficulty of being highly-prone toward explosion. The other possibility was to use some LEDs or some such but that wasn't possible either and maybe that would have made it look like a sideshow or something.
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