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Some way to go with AI in Vietnam.
VN Government looks to develop 4G networks. Vietnam ICT Outlook discusses digital transformation.
More than , computers in Vietnam infected with BrowserSpy. Rare total lunar eclipse to happen in VN this weekend.
Author's note: this story was originally in response to Natalo's request for a story that ended with the lines, "in that moment everything became clear. I knew I. Lonely Stars. likes. Roots Rock & Roll, B Movie Soul.
Billion-dollar solar projects power Ninh Thuan province. Larger 3G and 4G data packages inevitable.
Vietnamese science magazine will be on par internationally. Drum-making village busy ahead of Mid-Autumn Festival. Kha Trang wins Super Model International Localities gear up for super typhoon Mangkhut. Typhoon Mangkhut downgraded to tropical depression.
Concrete mixer truck-car crash kills 13 in Lai Chau. Authorities issue Storm Mangkhut warning.
Just have a drink for me when you get landside, yeah? I was ready to spend seven to ten days by myself on the station, waiting for the Russians to get their act together and get me my ride home. I'd done some time in an isolation chamber during my training, so I knew how to handle being stuck in a confined space with myself; the trick is to not listen to the voices. The station itself isn't roomy, but it has five different modular compartments, more than enough space for one person to not feel enclosed.
Even better, every module except for the emergency cell has specially reinforced portholes giving magnificent views of the earth far below. It was photos of this breathtaking panorama that had first driven me into the NASA program almost twenty years ago, so what better way to spend a week than by gazing at the world in all its glory? Since our planned experiments were complete, other than basic maintenance that's exactly what I spent the first several days doing.
I could lose myself for hours watching the whirling blues and browns fly by underneath, the sun rising and setting every time I completed an orbit. Then came the event. Five days into my lonely vigil I'd been roughly woken by a blaring alarm; Houston was trying to reach me, and they needed me now.
Satellites register some sort of anomaly we're just now picking up. Don't know if it's solar flares, some kind of field left behind by a passing comet, or something else. We'll be moving into the area within the hour. There's no telling how the systems are going to respond. It was good advice.
Alarms started sounding almost exactly sixty minutes later and abruptly whole sections of the station's instrument panels started shutting down. I was able to keep track of everything that was going on from the master controls in the emergency cell, so I knew exactly when power to the station completely cut out. There was a tense five to ten seconds before the emergency batteries kicked in. Then with a soft whine, they powered up the red lights I'd been basking in ever since.
I pause my work at the maintenance panel. For the thousandth time, I take out the photo of my wife and daughter. They're both smiling, holding each other close. The emergency batteries are designed to provide minimum function, pretty much just life support and basic communications. Theoretically, they'll last long enough that I'll have to be more concerned with running out of food and recycled water before worrying if they're going to run dry.
But I'm blind and deaf in here.
The communications are rudimentary, designed to run on almost no power, so it's small wonder I haven't been able to reach Houston. I have to do something. Menu Search Login Loving. Keep me logged in.
I have tried to fit in all my life and I have never found a place. It finally started getting to me and I know I'm not good enough, so this poem represents my loneliness.
February A lonely star Sits in the sky It starts to flicker and begins to cry A lonely star looks down on us all It takes a step and starts to fall A lonely star Falling down like an apple from a tree it still wears a frown A lonely star laying on the ground it looks to the moon a home it never found A lonely star whose light is fading is cold and crying She spent her whole life waiting A lonely star blinks her goodbye's her light goes out and she slowly dies.
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Notify me of follow-up comments by email. I may not be able to talk to the people down there, but at least I can watch them. When the collected data was used to make predictions as to the amount of such light in the entire universe, the researchers stumbled across something interesting. Image reproduced from Wikimedia Commons Related Posts. The system had been tested and retested to automatically restart in the event of a catastrophic failure, but when it actually counted, something stopped the reset. We'll be moving into the area within the hour. More than , computers in Vietnam infected with BrowserSpy.