What do a wedding necklace, Polish savoury dumplings and a photo of Hungary’s first astronaut have in common?
They will all be among personal items taken by astronauts journeying to the International Space Station in the spring. The date has not yet been set.
The four members of the Axiom Mission 4 hail from the U.S., India, Hungary and Poland and will travel on SpaceX Crew Dragon spaceship in a joint mission by NASA and the European Space Agency, ESA.
At a news conference Wednesday, three of the astronauts said they were having the time of their lives, training hard for their travel as well as preparing for the medical and technological experiments they will conduct during the nearly two weeks they will spend in space.
“We have to remind ourselves that space flight is a risky and serious business but it’s also fun and, next to space flight, the training for a space flight is the next best thing, so we are having a time of our lives,” the mission pilot, Tibor Kapu, said in English.
Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski said the hardest parts of the training were the “waiting and the uncertainty” as well as being away from home and not having “too much family time.”
ESA head Josef Aschbacher stressed that space research was “strategic” for many reasons, including security.
Crew members will take with them items of national and personal significance.
U.S. astronaut Peggy Whitson, the Mission commander, who has a doctorate in biochemistry, is taking the necklace that she wore at her wedding, along with photos of the crew and her family.
Uznański-Wiśniewski is taking freeze-dried Polish traditional pierogi, or dumplings, along with poems by Wisława Szymborska, a Nobel literature laureate; music by Frédéric Chopin; a piece of amber; and some salt from the historic Wieliczka salt mine. He will also have a small national white-and-red flag that Poland’s first man in outer space, Mirosław Hermaszewski, wore on his suit in 1978.
Tibor Kapu, of Hungary, said he will take a photo of his country’s first astronaut, Bertalan Farkas, who travelled into space in 1980, as well as family photos and the Hungarian flag.
He said his fascination with space came from the Star Wars movies. For Whitson it was the “real-life lunar landing” in 1969 by the U.S. Apollo 11 mission, while Uznański-Wiśniewski felt drawn by the coincidence of his birthdate, April 12, the day Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin made the first crewed flight into space in 1961.
The mission pilot, Shubhanshu Shukla of India, could not attend the media event, held at the popular Copernicus Science Center in Warsaw, with the participation of Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
The unique experience of being in outer space forms a bond for crews, said Whitson, who has spent 675 days in outer space, more than any other American, and has also served as ISS commander.
“I find that space is very much a place where you get a different perspective” in which you see Earth “in this vastness of space and you appreciate this perspective of the fact that our planet is basically like spaceship Earth and we need to take care of it. It is very precious to us,” Whitson said.
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Yeah I did, and that's a shame they now have ads. They definitely didn't used to, been a while since I listened to one of their episodes tbf.
- The Cryptid Factor
- The Modern Mann (very few ads)
- Darknet Diaries (very few ads)
F1 related:
- Superlicense
- The Midfield F1 podcast
- For Formula 1's Sake
- Box of Neutrals
So pointless, but fuck it I'll sign it anyway.
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TL;DR
Xiaomi has detailed a new tool called WinPlay which lets you locally run PC games on an Android tablet.
The app also supports games from the Steam and GOG stores.
The tool is currently available as part of an internal beta on the Xiaomi Pad 6s Pro tablet.
Would this help? https://forum.manjaro.org/t/howto-configure-wireguard-via-the-networkmanager-gui-advanced-network-manager/138040 Looks like you just need the wireguard config file from Netbird.
I do something similar and use syncthing to sync a folders on my phone to my server, I then use beets to manage my library (helps pull correct metadata) and jellyfin is just pointed to that folder. There's a fork of the syncthing app on fdroid: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.github.catfriend1.syncthingandroid/
Elon hasn't lost his marbles, he knows exactly what he's doing. Unfortunately we can't just dismiss this guy as an idiot, too many ppl are influenced by what he says and does.
Not tried it in years, but there was an app called fildo which I think you could give it a playlist url. It was buggy af though.