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Saturday 16 June 2007

Cosmonauts bypass power switch, reboot computers

Two Russian cosmonauts began to get crucial computers up and running Friday, four days after they crashed at the international space station and curbed the outpost's ability to orient itself and produce oxygen.The progress came after days of frustrating effort and, for the time being, removed a set of troubling options lying ahead for NASA and the Russian space agency if the computers continued to fail. "They're up and operational and this is good news for all," said Lynette Madison, a NASA spokeswoman in Houston. Cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin and Oleg Kotov pulled off the feat by bypassing a power switch with a cable to get two out of three computer connections running.ad the machines continued to malfunction, the three-member space station crew could still have remained on board, but other steps would have been taken to maintain the power and oxygen supplies. Russia had already begun to move up plans for a cargo ship to deliver supplies, including new computers, next month. And ominous questions were raised about the possibility of eventually needing to bail out of the space station -- something a top NASA official rejected earlier in the say. (CNN)


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The Hanged Man

Prolonged situation. Many hands to become involved. Many ideas, many processes of trial and error. The upturning of pandora's box of opportunity. Attention drawn to the underneath ... a horn points of one of the four orbs underneath ... towards the one located to the bottom left ... close by I see the symbol of the sun or perhaps the effects of the mark of the sun. An orifice or circular hole/pit and the short circuit of electricity ... the sparking from one wall to another across the pit. Four sets of hands turn dials ... one is clearly the one in command .. the others 'rookies' perhaps ... they all will try and fail ... Suspended they can only await the solution to come from elsewhere.