Zombie meme

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I think if I could run faster that would improve my numbers. *g*

The sky is full of spaceships!

I only found out about this an hour ago from the news weatherman. There were three satellites whizzing through the sky within 5 minutes of each other just a few minutes ago.

The first was the Jules Verne, an ATV (or a space freighter--now how many stories have I read which involved space freighters!) which I'd never heard of before. "The Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) is a 22-ton unmanned cargo carrier that will ferry almost 8 tons of equipment and spare parts as well as food, air, water and Russian resupply fuel to the station. It will use its thrusters to control the attitude of the space station and its main engines to reboost it." It's been parked up there 12,000 miles from the International Space Station while the Endeavour does it's mission.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/atv_extraordinaire.html
http://newsfeedresearcher.com/data/articles_t11/idt2008.03.10.14.15.30.html

Four minutes later the ISS flew the same path and it was so very bright. One minute later, the Endeavour followed along. Since it was about a four minute transit across the sky, the last two were fairly close together.

And it was awesome! It is just so cool! :)