Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Take KAIR

Were off! I don't know what of, vacation or our feet but we're successfully off it. We left the station shortly before this and I almost forgot my logbook... You know, me always thinking of and writing in my logbook seems a lot like a ship captain. That makes me feel kinda cool, wonder if JET students can get ranks.
Glad I learned how to drive a rover well because we split into four teams, five students and a teacher to each rover. And all students are taking a half hour turn at the wheel- it's nice to have such big controls to drive. I had my turn first so now I get to watch the other four sweating bullets the rest of the way. While I'm sitting here maybe I should take inventory. Let's see... fish goop, Kevlar inflatable airtight room (aka KAIR), flashlight (reenforced), emergency oxygen mask, portable generator (I'm carrying it for the group), freeze dried food (I know how you feel veggies), logbook (reporting for duty captain) and a second spacepack of textbooks, notebooks and spencils (space pencils hehe). I think that's all I need so I'll just save the list to JET: important: list
Teen out

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Super slimeballs

Even after just one day the reactions are noticeable. The skin around the wound looks natural instead of red and swollen, the itch is gone and by tommorow it should be almost better. How all the above is possible I don't know but I think these little slimeballs deserve better names than numbers. Since I know I'm being monitored through what I write I want to know if you have any ideas for names. JET is talking about doing an actual mission in a few days and so I'm going to save as much gel (slime is kind of a rude word to use for such a miraculous substance) as I can before then
Teen out

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Actually awsome

Wow, these guys are awsome! I started wondering why the sides of the tank started sliming up after only about 30 hours but after reading the manual I'm amazed. I followed everything in the manual correctly so at first I was worried and almost got the supervisor. But then I remembered they had sent along a rough draft of an FaQ paper. And question number three was, "The sides of the tank are all slimy and I've done everything right, what's wrong?"
The answer was, "It's completely normal, the fish secrete a slime that has medical properties. It is yet to be thouroughly experimented with but it can be used for any open wound or rash. Please scrape the slime off every two days no sooner and a maximum of a week. If you don't want to/can't use the solution yourself give it to the supervisor. If you experience any abnormal symptoms please report to the medical office as you could be experiencing an allergic reaction."
I am very excited to try it and I only have to wait till tomorrow morning to try it, I have an annoying pressure rash on my forearm. I don't really care to explain their living conditions in detail so I'll just keep a copy of the file under misc; fish project; manual.
Teen out

Friday, September 9, 2011

I have friends... Kinda

Hey remember that creepy girl that I talked about a long time ago? Well absolutely nothing happened so stop holding your breath. JET is about to announce a special project though and I'm very excited. I dont know what you think but secret moon training groups that deal with rovers and deep freezing are generally pretty exciting.
Speaking of exciting I got some little friends today. The supervisors picked a few students with extra time and gave them charge over a test experiment. Unfortunately it's nothing really cool like a hostile plant or dangerous rock specimens but I guess mutated goldfish are pretty cool. All students involved were given 7 subjects. Mine are numbers 236 through 243 because quite a few died before they figured out the conditions to keep them alive. I don't personally know myself but they gave me their habitat, some supplies and an instruction manual so I'll keep you (me) updated
Teen out

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Pleasant pauses and touchy training

Man, that zero gravity training is intense. The water training was kind of easy because i liked swimming on earth, here it isn't any different. The zero gravity thing though... I dunno it's pretty crazy. If you make the slightest move you'll gain momentum and won't stop moving until you make another move to contradict it. It's like being weightless... Probably because you are. It's not very easy to describe because there's nothing anything like it, besides swimming. If there's nothing to compare to I don't know if it's possible to describe it.
Since I'm clueless on how to tell myself what I just did, (which sounded a lot better in my head)I'm going to tell you about the work we did instead of the conditions.
We were working on a satellite look-alike to simulate a real situation. We had to repair a solar panel and do a checkup on the rest of the parts. If we didn't do it right we had to do it again because you can't mess up satellites, it costs the government millions (good thing it was a fake satellite). I wonder when JET is going to do something again, it's been a long time since we did anything. That could be good because it means less work...but it could be bad and mean we have to get back on schedule the hard way. I just love periods in groups of three, they add such pleasant pauses...
Teen out

Sunday, August 21, 2011

Tight spaces and learning places

Well I learned what we need to continue, well that is I know what we need. I didn't learn it yet. What we still need is tool training. We need to learn how to use tools properly and safely, otherwise the weightless training would be useless any more advanced than we're learning.
Not only do we need to learn how to use the tools though. We have to learn to do it in a space suit... Then do it underwater. Then after we do it in low gravity we have to go to a machine similar to the one on earth and do it "zero gravity".
That doesn't sound fun to me, at least if you drops screw in low gravity you know it will go down, in zero gravity it could go anywhere.
If it's part of training though we have to deal with it,
Teen out