Recovering...
May. 19th, 2001 10:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpThe so-called "weekly planning conference" pretty much exhausted me and Elena E.-S., who is working with me on air-to-ground this morning. Both the U.S. and Russian MCCs did a very thorough job of discussing the upcoming week's events with the ISS crew. We'll survive, though (we have to...there are still 6 hours left in the shift).
After the conference, I went for a walk "around" the second floor in the old part of the building. This consists of a rectangular hall that surrounds a central core of rooms, and which in turn is surrounded by a row of rooms on the "east" and "west" sides, and by cable chases and other utility spaces on the "north" and "south" sides.
I feel a mild "geek attack" coming on for the duration of this post.
The second floor in general is covered with removable tiles that allow technicians to get at various utilities that lie beneath: LAN cables, electrical power lines, phone wiring, and so on. Each tile is, it turns out, 28 inches square.
To occupy my mind, I counted the number of tiles that go down the center of each corridor, starting from the center point of the previous corridor and ending at the center point of the next one. There are 61 tiles running E-W, and 69 tiles running N-S.
A simple calculation shows that a complete path through the centers of the tiles and around the core rooms is 597'-4".
Walk around 9 times, and you've done just over a mile; 27 times will log you just over 3 miles.
Hmmm. This is either another item to add to my store of completely useless information, or a way to maintain my physical fitness.
Cheers...
After the conference, I went for a walk "around" the second floor in the old part of the building. This consists of a rectangular hall that surrounds a central core of rooms, and which in turn is surrounded by a row of rooms on the "east" and "west" sides, and by cable chases and other utility spaces on the "north" and "south" sides.
I feel a mild "geek attack" coming on for the duration of this post.
The second floor in general is covered with removable tiles that allow technicians to get at various utilities that lie beneath: LAN cables, electrical power lines, phone wiring, and so on. Each tile is, it turns out, 28 inches square.
To occupy my mind, I counted the number of tiles that go down the center of each corridor, starting from the center point of the previous corridor and ending at the center point of the next one. There are 61 tiles running E-W, and 69 tiles running N-S.
A simple calculation shows that a complete path through the centers of the tiles and around the core rooms is 597'-4".
Walk around 9 times, and you've done just over a mile; 27 times will log you just over 3 miles.
Hmmm. This is either another item to add to my store of completely useless information, or a way to maintain my physical fitness.
Cheers...
