Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Take KAIR when using sarcasm

Setting it up wasn't much fun, it was very difficult seeing as only the instructor in each rover had actually done it before. so there was six of them to be set up and one person who knew how to do it... maybe next time they should do training about these things.
I like them though, once you learn they are super easy. First you have to dig a trench just large enough to fit the package- about six inches by a foot. This part is the hardest and its not that hard in the dry uncompacted lunar soil. once you have the trench place the KAIR in it and make sure its right side up... I forgot to, don't do that ever.
Once you have confirmed its polarity (that means which way is up genius) turn the safety knob clockwise until you feel it click and pull the lever on the front end. This will trigger the compressed air and inflate the room.
Next is the most important but easiest part because it doesn't need any muscles. Simply pull the hose from the buggy to the unit and press the auto lock into the receiver (put the hose into the only hole on the whole thing darn it... the measures I'll go to just to make sure I can understand myself). Once you see the gauge attached to the hose go green you have a solid connection and you can move in!
*insert tiny print here about dangerous stuff and oxygen levels*
Teen out

Monday, October 10, 2011

There's music in the air... kinda

I got picked up a couple hours ago by a creepy goverment dude. The trip is really exciting but also really scary. And not for the reasons you think. The guys that transport you are so scary man, no joke. I should be writing this from the moon but we've been delayed apparently and so were sitting here in a boring blank room. After the first about fifteen minutes almost everyone pulled out their logs, what else can you do? There's no books or magazines to read here, no music and not even a picture. Who would make such an ugly room? Maybe an ugly person...
I can't believe we aren't even in prelaunch training yet. We can't even learn how to use our suits and stuff yet? I wish they would at least let us download the log file for the suit manual so we would have something to read. And then we wouldn't have to do that later, who made the schedule for this darn trip. They aren't very good I can tell you that.
Wouldn't it be wierd if this whole thing was really a elaborate alien plan to get young earthling samples? Wouldn't it be wierd if my brain stopped coming up with wierd thoughts. And also wouldn't it be nice if we could get out of this room sooner or later and do something? ...Someone just farted and I don't see any air vents so I hope it's sooner rather than later.
Teen out.

IMPORTANT NOTE: This post was originally from 7/11/11 or close to it, I had to find it and repost it. I'm sorry for any inconvenience this has caused

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