Friday, December 3, 2010

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Last night at Settimo Torinese, the new library Archimedes, meeting with Umberto Guidoni , Italian astronaut and astrophysicist with two missions behind.

gremitissima room, add furniture. Many television sets tonight.

Guidoni explains how it works in practice a kind of magic. Bring fragile bipedal oxygen-breathing off the planet where they were born and where they would be condemned to remain if they were not beings stubborn, hard working and a bit 'unconscious. He does not hide anything, tells us that we need to fly light heavy things: a lot of money, industry and military interests that do fly by. But then it flies.

The Shuttle uses 2 million gallons of fuel in 8 ½ minutes to go outside the Earth 5 or 6 people who have to breathe, eat, drink, sleep, work, go to the bathroom for weeks and that in the absence of gravity (without the Earth mother and mistress) begin to weaken and bulge. He says that at the time of the first moon landing NASA scientists had given a 50% chance that the crew could go home (not in America, Italy or Florida, the space is said to "go home"). President Nixon had prepared two speeches: one on the success of the mission, on a catastrophe.

Someone asked about "fallout" of space missions. To me the word impact seems already out of tune in one place dove si parla di volo, di navigazione spaziale e mancanza di gravità... Ma sono un romantico ingenuo, Guidoni sa che le ricadute economiche sono importanti perché le missioni riprendano con il vigore che avevano negli anni 60 del secolo scorso. Però, avverte, i vantaggi non si possono misurare nei nostri tempi di vita, di nuovo Colombo e le ricadute della sua scoperta: non solo pomodori e patate, ma un Nuovo Mondo da aggiungere al vecchio...
Ci dice che dormire in assenza di peso è come dormire su una nuvola e che nel caso ci capiti di visitare una stazione spaziale orbitale, portare una mela in regalo a chi ci ospita potrebbe farlo piangere dalla gioia. 

The next stop is Mars, still so far away. E 'in space, space is a lot. Guidoni quotes Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Eduardovich , Russian scholar considered one of the fathers of astronautics, who said: "The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but you can not live forever in a cradle." How true.
And we have already taken the time to go, I'll shake his hand, was a really nice evening. He did not say that I'm even starting with cosmonaut Colam Sam, with the mechatronic Bart and Rufus (the second dog Laika into space after) in the universe on a mission to search for extraterrestrial life and, I suspect that calls the neurodeliri. But it's true, damn if it's true!


The photo from NASA's website: Tracy Caldwell-Dyson in the Cupola module of the International Space Station Expedition During observing the Earth below 24. You can click to enlarge here is a relapse.

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