With the amount of interest being build up for the new Star Trek movie, we often wonder whether we have progress over the last few years with regards to ever reaching the dream of traveling at warp speed or being able to say “beam me up Scotty”.
Communication between our astronauts, cosmonauts or taikonauts (depending where on earth you are from) has always been between them and their respective space agencies. There have never really been any direct communication between them and the rest of the general public … until now!
Mike Massimino, a NASA astronaut stationed on STS-125 has started to twitter!
From orbit: Rendezvous and grapple were great, getting ready for our first spacewalk
Twitter being a micro-blogging site seems to be the most appropriate start for this, with minimum bandwidth requirement for micro-blogging.
Mr Sulu … engage warp speed!
We are now closer to go where no man has gone before …
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You know Twitter’s made it big when people in outer space are using it. Probably the first social network to boldly go where Facebook has not gone before.
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