2015-04-18T07:48:04Ztag:sursumcorda.salemsattic.com,2018:/isso/thread/post/beam-me-up-scottytag:sursumcorda.salemsattic.com,2018:/isso/1462/49352015-04-18T07:48:04ZJanet<p>Well, waddya know. I bought one today . . .</p>tag:sursumcorda.salemsattic.com,2018:/isso/1462/49342015-04-18T01:04:09ZSursumCorda<p>I didn't know many details about the launch we watched recently, but I did catch that it was taking essential equipment in the form of a specially-designed coffee machine. Great name.</p> <p>Janet, if an espresso machine is essential equipment in space, I think you need one, even if you don't have space. :)</p> <p>Heisenberg? He's just a dead white guy, right? So passé.</p>tag:sursumcorda.salemsattic.com,2018:/isso/1462/49332015-04-17T21:34:00ZDavid July<p>Turning off those asinine Twitter emails would be my recommendation. If you want a Star Trek/The Future Is Now fix, check this out instead...</p> <p>https://twitter.com/AstroSamantha/status/589035429879513088</p> <p>That's Italian Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti aboard the International Space Station. She is sporting a later era Starfleet uniform AND quoting coffee aficionado Captain Janeway from an episode of &quot;Star Trek: Voyager&quot;.</p> <p>The Dragon supply ship she's pointing to transported, among other things, an espresso machine called the ISSpresso.</p> <p>P.S. Matter-energy transport will be possible as soon as we can get around Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. So, any day now. :)</p>