BBC website headline:
"Endeavour crew take first space walk to start work on assembling
giant robot."
A hundred years ago, that would have appeared in a series of cigarette
cards about "The Twenty-First Century". Fifty or sixty years ago, a
pulp magazine cover artist would have gone to town on it.
Now: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7295767.stm
More about the giant robot ("Dextre"):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7293953.stm
Imagine working inside the ISS while someone down on Earth is
controlling the giant robot clambering around the outside like an
oversized mechanical spider... with way fewer limbs.
Imagine trying to /sleep/.
