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[jay]

Someone has finally noticed that we're talking online to the Space Station through a VPN. (Looks at VPN application, sitting on my desk here at work...)

I remember fierce battles 10 years ago with the Apollo-era old guard as to why we needed network capability *at all* on the Station... (smiles quietly).

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Quiet smiles

[p3aches.livejournal.com]

brian when else do you smile quietly? And what does a quiet smile represent to you?

Singed a curious mind

Re: Quiet smiles

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

His quiet smile is really very charming : >

Re: Quiet smiles

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

(blush)

Re: Quiet smiles

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Some internal pleasant thought, not to be waved-around or gloated... often a small victory of some sort.

In this case, myself and various kindred souls had not only won that battle, its existence is now unremarkable. We've become the Dominant Paradigm (tm *). No one would nowadays seriously propose designing a human-crewed spacecraft now without an internal data communications network, and some kind of filtered link to Earth... but in 1992 that was controversial.

Re: Quiet smiles

[p3aches.livejournal.com]

Brian you said"Some internal pleasant thought, not to be waved-around or gloated... often a small victory of some sort."

i frequently smile for simular reasons.

Hugs T