Let the battle for our ... uh... destiny begin!
Ok, well begin when I set foot upon the glorious city that is Houston, home of NASA's Johnson Space Center, and more importantly, home of the future NBA champions: the Houston Rockets and Yao Ming.
Just Kidding.
After taking care of some business yesterday and sending out the remainder of our equipment, I fly out today under clear skies and warm weather.
I look foward to a full day in Houston of cells and Puerto Rico :)
7 Comments:
..by Barryke:
I know its the wrong site to ask this question, but whats the game Puerto Rico about?
(ofcource im also interested in the project, but no questions there :D )
4:05 AM
Bring me back a t-shirt?
6:52 AM
go get a Sandwich @ Frenchie's. It's a long-time astronaut hang.
BTW, saw your site linked from slashdot, and I'm currently in Baytown (just a hop-skip-and a jump over the mighty San Jacinto River from Clear Lake).
enjoy your ride fellas..sorry there is no A/C aboard the V-C!
8:44 AM
Here's a question:
I'm assuming that you're not going to take a confocal microscope on the vomit comet. that would be rather expensive and heavy, to say the least. so are you expecting microgravity to have a permanent effect on cell morphology that you can measure later, or do you have some way of "fixing" the cells reliably, for later viewing after you've finished barfing?
8:49 AM
Go to Crescent City Beignets and get:
1) beignets (duh)
2) shrimp creole
3) granita
so good...
oh and you should go shooting while you're in texas. yee-haw
2:45 PM
Good luck with your project, dudes from Duke.
I thought I should mention to you that a few years back (late 1990's), a classmate of mine at Rice University (just down the road from the Johnson Space Center) attempted to carry out some psychology experiements while on the vomit comet. The results were not good. The barfing episodes were so bad and so frequent for both scientist and subjects that the experiments never got off the ground (so to speak).
Hopefully you'll fare better. Good Luck.
-sj
4:18 PM
Hey everybody! You can learn more about the game "Puerto Rico" at the following site:
http://www.funagain.com/cgi-bin/funagain/12491
In response to the really good question about the confocal microscope, we definitely had to think about how to "freeze" the cells so that we could look at them later under the confocal microscope. We finally decided on fixing them with Bouin's Solution, a solution of formaldehyde (I believe 10% formaldehyde...we diluted it to 5%). That way, we can stain the cells once we're back on earth and then examine them under the confocal microscope. Hopefully this answers your question! If you have any others, definitely let us know what it is.
Peace!
9:25 PM
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