Part 1: A Day In The Life Onboard The ISS

Notice every laptop is a ThinkPad, and all of the media players are iPods... best laptops but not the best PMPs, there's ones with lower fail rates... but in 0g their HDDs are probably much less prone to death.

u said hello earth in exactly the same way like 3 times
i love the iss!!!!!!!!!!!

this is so kewl!

It's weird that this doesn't have more comments and that more people don't find our only space outpost more fascinating.

quisqueyatv: There's friction up there too, that results from two bodies interacting with each other and the amount of friction is dependent upon the roughness of those surfaces. That applies in zero-g as it does in a gravity well.

fantastic view from ur bedroom lol that would sell lol. there isnt another hotel in the earth that wouldnt have that view

The "free fall" mechanism is a accelerometer... It´s mesures the aceleration... when free falling in earth thats 9.8m/s2... The ISS has constant speed and not acelerating in its reference frame. All thow on earth's reference frame it has a radial/centripital aceleration wich makes it describe a circular motion... Since the ipod is at rest on board it should play beautifly =P

if theres no gravity nor friction to hold up anything then what happens to the blood and the stuff inside you ??

they hold by your mussles

my guess is that the fall detection mechanism is based on some accelerometer. hence, no matter how great their speed is, as long as their acceleration stays under the mechanism treshold.

(this was in response to anuragkesari's comment)