>Boldly Going Where No iPod Has Gone Before…
Look closely at this picture… It’s from the current STS-117 Shuttle Mission:
Now, if you look closely in the upper left-hand corner you’ll see (next to the other essential space item, the Bible) an iPod:
For many years its been known that the space shuttle’s computers are extremely outdated to today’s standards. Portable computers have been brought on board for science experiments, etc. This is the first time an iPod has been spotted on board. The funny part about this is that it appears not to be a current generation model, but one of the previous generations, so no television shows or movies for this crew. It’s also remarkable to notice that there is a dock connector plugged into the bottom of the unit. Could it currently be used as a hard drive? or perhaps a space black box? Is it plugged into an amazingly powerful shuttle stereo system??? or… and most likely… it it just being charged by the same batteries keeping the astronauts alive?
Cheers to the iPod! Risking its life in the name of science!
I wonder what’s on it… I wonder if NASA has ever updated the computers on the shuttle….
I wonder what they found on the moon:
Conceived and Created by Daren R. Dochterman.
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