Posted on 06/19/2013 8:37:31 PM PDT by TexGrill
A special lecture began Thursday morning, given by a teacher aboard China's space module Tiangong-1 to students on Earth.
Female astronaut Wang Yaping, one of the three crew members of Shenzhou-10 spacecraft, greeted about 330 primary and middle school students at a Beijing high school, through a live video feed system.
"Hello, everyone. I am Wang Yaping. I will host the lecture today," she said, smiling towards the camera, on board of the space module Tiangong-1.
Wang and her crew members set off to the space aboard the Shenzhou-10 spacecraft on June 11 and the spacecraft docked with the Tiangong-1 on June 13.
The students on her class included children from migrant workers' families, of ethnic minorities and from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. They are gathering at the High School Affiliated to Renmin University in Beijing.
More than 60 million students and teachers at about 80,000 middle schools across the country are watching the live broadcast on TV.
Wang will teach about motion in a microgravity environment, the surface tension of liquid, and help students understand the concepts of weight and mass and Newton's Laws.
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Funny this is that the astronauts could have heard the CRI report via shortwave.
Our Spacestation used to broadcast shortwave for school kids and folks like me to hear.
It sucks that we are not engaging our children and the general public anymore.
...on a soundstage in Guangdong Province...
Funny thing
NASA is for “Muslim outreach”.
Well, without Muslims we never would have figured out math and space /s
Actually the Arabs/Persians/Egyptians were civilizations knowledgeable about math & space, but that came to a halt after a century or two of Islam. They’ve never recovered.
A short entertaining video along the lines of your comment...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tOJX-oOZ2Q
I believe the Arabs made sure most of that was lost.
Then again we are losing plenty of ancient knowledge here in the west.
Some guy on Facebook was very smugly pointing out that Arabic numerals were so much easier to use than Roman numerals, so the Arabs are really highly creative and intelligent. However, I’d say the Romans built quite a mighty empire on those X’s, L’s, C’s, D’s and M’s, and if they had held out a few centuries more they would have whooped the tar out of those Muslims;)
Very cool.
Thanks.
Also there is that pesky business about the Arabs stealing the idea of zero from India.
did any of the fake space scenery come crasing down...?
Well, radio but not shortwave radio.
Shortwave (1.6 - 30 MHz) is rather unreliable from space.
Near the 30mhz end it will do alright most of the time but it is the vhf and above frequencies that rule in space.
The astronauts aboard the space station are all hams. They generally have communicated to students and others on the ground using the amateur 2 meter band at 144 - 148 MHz.
Why don’t we do this stuff anymore?
Rush has his Ham license, and his pilots license.
We as a country fail to inspire as of late.
Point well taken.
Rush loves radio and flying but I don’t believe he has either license. He had at least a 3rd class FCC ticket when he was DJ at the local AM station in high school..but that’s not a ham ticket.
His mom had her pilots license... I used to live in Cape Girardeau and if I remember correctly they had a Cessna 172.
It is shameful that young people are not getting into technical fields much anymore :-(
I’m in the process of writing a book for beginners that will teach about programming Atmel 8bit micro-controllers and also a bit about radio as well. It’s slow going. I have only written short items for tech folk and I have discovered that it is much harder writing for an audience of beginners of varying background. For one thing, where do you start? With basic Boolean and hexadecimal math?
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