The Above Linkblogs Might Contain "Borrowed" links.
Linkblogs do not substantially contribute traffic to my blog that I can discover. They all go offsite, and are often accessed from my blog. It's possible to access them from the RSS according to my settings. Still, even if I were to get ads clicking on a linkblog from the RSS won't drive more people to my blog than otherwise because they leave my resources. (Note to self, do more posts, less LBs with sources I find). I explain because I sometimes borrow links from people at Twitter, and often forget who put them up. (To fellow Twitterers: If you have a link to your blog, I will point it there, but Twitter, being impermanent, cannot hold your link for people to discover from there. I only 'borrow' them to get news out to as many people as I can who might not have seen the reports and videos found by the smart people I follow at Twitter or find in search rooms.RSS Add-Me
It Ain't Mountain Dew. Testing on Space Shuttle Urine Recycler Stopped.
Excerpt Reuters report "NASA halts test of space station urine recylcer":
NASA called off tests of the International Space Station's urine recycler on Sunday after problems developed and revamped plans for Monday's spacewalk to fix an improperly installed cargo platform attachment.
Flight directors also repositioned the station and the visiting space shuttle Discovery to avoid a piece of space junk, which was expected to come too close during Monday's spacewalk, the last of three during Discovery's mission.
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At speeds exceeding 17,500 mph, shards as small as a fleck of paint have enough energy to damage or destroy spacecraft.
Also Sunday, engineers were trying to figure out why a water purification system that recycles urine and condensate into drinking water was not working properly.
The Discovery crew delivered a new distiller for the centrifuge-type device that was successfully tested without liquids on Saturday. Problems developed during the first test run Sunday using urine.
"Once you closed valve 3 it didn't seem to flow," station commander Mike Fincke radioed to ground controllers.
"I have no idea why that could be, so good luck with the trouble-shooting and we're standing by to answer any questions or be of any use."
NASA wants to have the urine recycler working before expanding the station's live-aboard crew from three to six members in May.
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