iPod as seen from space

Fri, 03/14/2008 - 5:57am — Jonny Evans

OK, we know astronauts like to take their iPods with them - the European Space Agency even launched an iPod playlist competition last year - but this picture's interesting in a different way.

You see, what we have here is a picture of an iPod on the flight deck of the Space Shuttle Endeavour as photographed by the crew on board the International Space Station. To the left of the picture you can clearly see that tell-tale white iPod sitting on the flight deck. It's the first time an iPod's been photographed inside one space vehicle by someone in another.

On a tenuously related note, check out the internet clamor greeting the sale of the most expensive iPod shuffle ever seen. Auctioned by Norwegian jeweller Thomas Heyerdahl in a charity auction (to raise cash for the Soil Association), the £20,000 music player and earplugs are made of 18-carat white and pink gold and encrusted with 430 diamonds.

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Comments

Doesn't look much like an iPod to me

Fri, 03/14/2008 - 6:28am — Anonymous Hero (not verified)

Unless that's a 1st or 2nd Gen, and even then it looks nothing like one, I don't think that's an iPod at all.

of course, I could be wrong!

oops

Fri, 03/14/2008 - 6:30am — Anonymous Hero (not verified)

On second thoughts and a closer look!!!

I'm wrong!

Docking Station!

Fri, 03/14/2008 - 6:52am — Anonymous Coward (not verified)

Gives a whole new meaning to "docking station" doesn't it. I gotta get me one of them!

the Zune will likely never be a high flier.

Fri, 03/14/2008 - 7:51am — Anonymous Coward (not verified)

The Zune will likely never be as elevated.

Theft warning!

Fri, 03/14/2008 - 7:51am — TuCats (not verified)

How many times do we have to be told not to leave valuable things on the dashboard where they can be seen through the windshield? I think a hoodlum doing a smash-and-grab would be an extremely unforutunate turn of events for this otherwise carefree traveler.

FAKE!!!!

Fri, 03/14/2008 - 10:58am — Anonymous Coward (not verified)

FAKE!!!! That's such an obvious photoshop job I laughed so hard had I been drinking milk it would have come out of my nose. Everyone knows all the shuttle missions are faked as well. Man can't survive in space.

U are fake.

Fri, 03/14/2008 - 12:07pm — Jamiro (not verified)

That's such a complete bullshit that I laughed so hard had I been drinking milk it would have come out of my ears.

iPod in space playlist?

Fri, 03/14/2008 - 11:01am — Johnny Ramone (not verified)

Space Poddity? (Ground Control to Major Jobs??)

Also Pod Zarathustra?

sorry, I've run out of bad humour for the day ....

Fake? Are you kidding??

Fri, 03/14/2008 - 12:51pm — Larry. (not verified)

The link for that pic takes you to NASA's website. The photo is not even on thier site to showcase the iPod. It just happens to be sitting there. It is not fake by any means. Why is it so hard to believe we can survive in space? What is NASA and the rest of the world accomplishing by telling us we have men and women in space if there lying to us?! And how do you know man can't survive in space? Have you tried it? I haven't, but I'll believe NASA is not lying to us before I believe an "Anonymous Coward"

The Potatoe....

Fri, 03/14/2008 - 1:04pm — Jonny Evans

All this cafuffle brings to mind a statement from the late philosopher, Bertrand Russell. Around the time of the first moon landings, he was asked what he thought of the journey into space. He said, "the potatoe, as long as we can't make the potato grow in space, we have no future there"

This is a paraphrase based on rubbish memory...

But I guess it would be true to consider that 10,000 tunes in your pocket as you wander along the astral superhighway is no use to no one if they can't grow something to eat.

(It's no fake, by the way)

who cares

Sat, 03/15/2008 - 1:22pm — Anonymous (not verified)

wow... that's so... unimpressive.

The "iPod" is...

Sat, 03/15/2008 - 4:45pm — Bradley Dichter (not verified)

More than likely it is a small digital multimeter. It seems to be the classic design of a display on the top, large rotary mode/scale switch below that, and then in the bottom corners, recessed banana jacks for the test probes.