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I’d like a house with more Space   

It seems that a family in Illinois is picking up the black-and-white video feed from the space shuttle Atlantis. On their baby monitor.

The best part of the whole affair (besides the glorious randomness of it all) is the fact that the family really likes it!

“I’ve been addicted to it and keep waiting to see what’s next,” Meilinger said.


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  2. Lab Lemming

    In other news, the audible blast from the recent false fire alarm on the Space Shuttle sounded suspiciously like a hungry infant. Investigators are still trying to determine the cause of this alarm…

  3. Pingback from Eat Our Brains » Blog Archive » NASA, do you read? Ga-ga-goo

    [...] is nifty. Via Cosmic Variance. A baby monitor in the Chicago area is picking up NASA mission [...]

  4. Yvette

    Well come on, who wouldn’t want the shuttle video feed broadcast on their baby monitor? I sense a new PR move for NASA in the works. :)

  5. Jeremy Chapman

    oh, a house with more SPACE! I finally get it!

    It’s strange what errant signals a finely tuned device can pick up, seemingly out of no where, and yet the signals that you are supposed to get don’t come in without some odd arrangment of tin foil and bunny ears…

  6. alpinekat

    Fantatic. This made my day.

  7. absolutely

    The reason is very mundane. Some near neighbor has their computer relaying the NASA web-feed via one of those nifty TV relayer cards so he/she can watch it on a TV for convenience somewhere else. The channel it broadcasts on just happens to be the same as the baby monitor (these things usually use the same 1 or 2 unused channels to prevent interference with normal TV channels.

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