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Crave - Take a tour of the ISS, Google Street View style, Ep. 213

2015-07-30
hey guys my name is Steven be true for crave and here's what's happening this week on CNET's crave wha just wanted to put a friendly reminder out there that you can see the Lexus hoverboard in action August 5th according to a short video posted on Tuesday by the luxury car manufacturer Lexus released a 19 second video showing off a little more footage of the breakthrough hoverboard along with a short video featuring professional skateboarder Ross Bergeron who is also credited in the video as a hoverboard test rider make sure you put a reminder in your phone August 5th Siri remind me August 5th about the Lexus hoverboard coming out ever wonder how do they launch a nuclear weapon well physicist Derek Muller was able to get a walkthrough of the process for his educational youtube channel veritasium I probably said that name wrong Muller was invited to tour the tiny missile silo in Arizona which at one time housed a nine Megaton thermonuclear warhead which was 650 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima the video is right three two one turn keys and hold green light turns on says launch enabled for all intents and purposes that should say welcome to World War 3 it'll slide through security radar beam it's that I'll peel off prevention start and we'll build up trust pop the hold on bolts off you go nASA has released a copy of their golden record on Soundcloud which contains all the sounds they sent into space along with the twin Voyager 1 in two missions in 1977 the sounds were recorded onto a 12-inch phonograph disc made from copper plated in gold nASA released the entire recording this week which includes everyday sounds we hear here on earth like a dog barking crickets and frogs a train and of course a mother kissing her child you can listen to the entire album at soundcloud.com slash NASA now you can take a Google Streetview style tour of the International Space Station the European Space Agency posted a bunch of high-res photos from inside the International Space Station that have been stitched together seamlessly in a way so that users can move around within the modules you were able to zoom in spin around move forward and navigate around the ISS using a map on the right hand side if you're using full screen mode you can get a good glimpse at what life might be like aboard the ISS ESA astronaut Samantha Christopher Eddie took tons of photos during her 199 days aboard the orbiting laboratory and thanks to her efforts we can now view what the space station was like during June of 2015 when she took most of the photos there she is the virtual tour was improved with the help of Thomas Rauscher of Vienna Austria who carefully stitched the images together for some of the modules alright guys that's the show thank you very much for watching as always you can find all these news stories that CNN spray bloggers crave cnet.com make sure you follow Krave on twitter at crave and check out this week's crave giveaway this week's crib giveaway is a chant bt portable bluetooth speaker from House of Marley go to the blog and enter to win
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