Comments on: Twitter Astronaut turns out to be tweeting via email

By: LEADSExplorer

LEADSExplorer — Mon, 25 May 2009 16:40:33 +0000

If:
the NASA isn't capable of sending real-time Tweets (164 characters of data) to earth, 30 years after landing on the moon.
How:
was it possible to receive live TV images with sound from the moon?

"That's one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind."
Even a small step like Twitter micro blogging from space is not possible 30 years later.

By: Alex Firmani

Alex Firmani — Sun, 24 May 2009 21:50:39 +0000

Right! Sending email from space is still a pretty cool thing.

And couldn't NASA have spared a few programming hours to write a quick email -> twitter gateway for Astro_Mike?

By: swag

swag — Sun, 24 May 2009 02:31:39 +0000

LOL. It's as if no one gives a crap if it's e-mail from space, but slap the “T” word on it and everyone is wetting themselves.

By: jmmhooper

jmmhooper — Sat, 23 May 2009 19:13:14 +0000

I agree with other posts, he was not trying to deceive. If you had FOLLOWED him you would have read his post about him having to do it that way. So you report on something you have no real knowledge about? Hmm typical blogger. I bet you read other blogs and then post it here as your own.

On the flip side I am disappointed he had to twitter the way he did kind of made it not so interesting anymore

By: OurielOhayon

OurielOhayon — Sat, 23 May 2009 11:43:39 +0000

I certainly hope he's using topify.com to manage twitter by email ! http://bit.ly/gotopify

By: rkorba

rkorba — Sat, 23 May 2009 10:45:15 +0000

just to clarify, he did tweet that before they blasted off, right? http://twitter.com/Astro_Mike/status/1676124868

By: sean

sean — Sat, 23 May 2009 04:18:11 +0000

'Mike, do what the private sector does: Ignore the IT guys and bring your own iPhone.'

hmmm I'm no astronaut but isn't the space shuttle a few THOUSAND miles out there? Not sure what kind of iphone you have Paul, but even you might have trouble getting a signal at those distances.

By: Eric Eldon

Eric Eldon — Sat, 23 May 2009 02:49:00 +0000

Not to me, it wouldn't have!

By: Jeffrey McManus

Jeffrey McManus — Sat, 23 May 2009 02:44:18 +0000

If he had been carving his tweets into granite and sending them down to earth using skyhooks, would it have been an issue?

By: GR

GR — Sat, 23 May 2009 02:35:57 +0000

Maybe you should have just payed attention to what @Astro_Mike himself said on the matter long before they launched. He addressed this on May 1st, before all this 'first twitter from space' silliness ensued. Instead, now you are trying to gain clicks with some made up pseudo-scandal.

http://twitter.com/Astro_Mike/status/1676124868