Freefall snark

[gfish]

I'm finally watching the NASA videos of the robot flight. One of the other teams was trying to use a USB mouse on their laptop. Oddly enough, they don't seem to work very well in freefall.

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[adularia.livejournal.com]

optical mouse, you mean?

actually, that gives me a good R&D idea: hardware interfaces for freefall...

(I found even key-pressing to be kind of difficult with my feet in the air. If I knew how to use a Twiddler, that'd be a good place for it.)

[vixyish.livejournal.com]

Apropos of nothing, I thought you'd like this:

It's fruitcake all the way down. (http://homepages.tesco.net/~janefisk/discworld/discworld.htm)