Space Shuttle Makes a Bow Wave in Twittersphere
December 5th, 2008 By Matt Filed Under Factoid Space
The sonic boom created by Space Shuttle Endeavor on return from orbit was heard across Los Angeles. Similar to the way earthquakes have done in the past, the event caused Twitter users who heard the sound but did not know the cause to inquire with each other to determine the cause. Even more interesting that LA Times picked up the story.
It is fun to see how Twitter is turning humans into sentient sensors roaming around the world publising their data. Could this be a useful paradigm for planetary exploration? Hundreds of mini-rovers unleashed on an unsuspecting planetary surface to report back what they find would create a very different data set than those acquired from a single rover.
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