This 30 day mission will help our researchers learn how isolation and close quarters affect individual and group behavior. This study at our Johnson Space Center prepares us for long duration
space missions, like a trip to an asteroid or even to Mars.
The Human Research Exploration Analog (HERA) that the crew members will be living in is one compact, science-making house. But
unlike in a normal house, these inhabitants won’t go outside for 30 days. Their communication with the rest of planet Earth will also be very limited, and they won’t have any access to
internet. So no checking social media kids!
The only people they will talk with regularly are mission control and each other.
The crew member selection process is based on a number of criteria, including the same criteria for astronaut selection.
What will they be doing?
Because this mission simulates a 715-day journey to a Near-Earth asteroid, the four crew members will complete activities similar to what would happen during an outbound transit, on location at
the asteroid, and the return transit phases of a mission (just in a bit of an accelerated timeframe). This simulation means that even when communicating with mission control, there will be a
delay on all communications ranging from 1 to 10 minutes each way. The crew will also perform virtual spacewalk missions once they reach their destination, where they will inspect the asteroid
and collect samples from it.
A few other details:
The crew follows a timeline that is similar to one used for the ISS crew.
They work 16 hours a day, Monday through Friday. This includes time for daily planning, conferences, meals and exercises.
They will be growing and taking care of plants and brine shrimp, which they will analyze and document.
But beware! While we do all we can to avoid crises during missions, crews need to be able to respond in the event of an emergency. The HERA crew will conduct a couple of emergency scenario
simulations, including one that will require them to maneuver through a debris field during the Earth-bound phase of the mission.
Throughout the mission, researchers will gather information about cohabitation, teamwork, team cohesion, mood, performance and overall well-being. The crew members will be tracked by numerous
devices that each capture different types of data.
Past HERA crew members wore a sensor that recorded heart rate, distance, motion and sound intensity. When crew members were
working together, the sensor would also record their proximity as well, helping investigators learn about team cohesion.
Researchers also learned about how crew members react to stress by recording and analyzing verbal interactions and by analyzing “markers” in blood and saliva samples.
In total, this mission will include 19 individual investigations across key human research elements. From psychological to physiological experiments, the crew members will help prepare us for
future missions.
This 30 day mission will help our researchers learn how isolation and close quarters affect individual and group behavior. This study at our Johnson Space Center prepares us for long duration
space missions, like a trip to an asteroid or even to Mars.
The Human Research Exploration Analog (HERA) that the crew members will be living in is one compact, science-making house. But
unlike in a normal house, these inhabitants won’t go outside for 30 days. Their communication with the rest of planet Earth will also be very limited, and they won’t have any access to
internet. So no checking social media kids!
The only people they will talk with regularly are mission control and each other.
The crew member selection process is based on a number of criteria, including the same criteria for astronaut selection.
What will they be doing?
Because this mission simulates a 715-day journey to a Near-Earth asteroid, the four crew members will complete activities similar to what would happen during an outbound transit, on location at
the asteroid, and the return transit phases of a mission (just in a bit of an accelerated timeframe). This simulation means that even when communicating with mission control, there will be a
delay on all communications ranging from 1 to 10 minutes each way. The crew will also perform virtual spacewalk missions once they reach their destination, where they will inspect the asteroid
and collect samples from it.
A few other details:
The crew follows a timeline that is similar to one used for the ISS crew.
They work 16 hours a day, Monday through Friday. This includes time for daily planning, conferences, meals and exercises.
They will be growing and taking care of plants and brine shrimp, which they will analyze and document.
But beware! While we do all we can to avoid crises during missions, crews need to be able to respond in the event of an emergency. The HERA crew will conduct a couple of emergency scenario
simulations, including one that will require them to maneuver through a debris field during the Earth-bound phase of the mission.
Throughout the mission, researchers will gather information about cohabitation, teamwork, team cohesion, mood, performance and overall well-being. The crew members will be tracked by numerous
devices that each capture different types of data.
Past HERA crew members wore a sensor that recorded heart rate, distance, motion and sound intensity. When crew members were
working together, the sensor would also record their proximity as well, helping investigators learn about team cohesion.
Researchers also learned about how crew members react to stress by recording and analyzing verbal interactions and by analyzing “markers” in blood and saliva samples.
In total, this mission will include 19 individual investigations across key human research elements. From psychological to physiological experiments, the crew members will help prepare us for
future missions.
Unicode has code points for all 30 minute increments of clock faces. This is a simple project to display the one closest to the current time written in JavaScript.
Because the code points are all above 0xFFFF, I make use of some ES6 additions. I use the \u{XXXXXX} style escape sequence since the old style JavaScript escape sequence \uXXXX only supports code
points up to 0xFFFF. I also use the method String.codePointAt rather than String.charCodeAt because the code points larger than 0xFFFF are represented in JavaScript strings using surrogate pairs
and charCodeAt gives the surrogate value rather than codePointAt which gives the code point represented by the pair of surrogates.
"🕛".codePointAt(0) 128347 "🕛".charCodeAt(0) 55357
🕐🕑🕒🕓🕔🕕🕖🕗🕘🕙🕚🕛🕜🕝🕞🕟🕠🕡🕢🕣🕤🕥🕦🕧
The ordering of the code points does not make it simple to do this. I initially guessed the first code point in the range would be 12:00 followed by 12:30, 1:00 and so on. But actually 1:00 is
first followed by all the on the hour times then all the half hour times.
Chakra, the JavaScript engine powering the Edge browser and JavaScript Windows Store apps, does the work to project WinRT into JavaScript. It is responsible for, among other things, converting
back and forth between JavaScript types and WinRT types. Some basics are intuitive, like a JavaScript string is converted back and forth with WinRT’s string representation. For other basic types
check out the MSDN links at the top of the page. For structs, interface instances, class instances, and objects things are more complicated.
A struct, class instance, or interface instance in WinRT is projected into JavaScript as a JavaScript object with corresponding property names and values. This JavaScript object representation of
a WinRT type can be passed into other WinRT APIs that take the same underlying type as a parameter. This JavaScript object is special in that Chakra keeps a reference to the underlying WinRT
object and so it can be reused with other WinRT APIs.
However, if you start with plain JavaScript objects and want to interact with WinRT APIs that take non-basic WinRT types, your options are less plentiful. You can use a plain JavaScript object as
a WinRT struct, so long as the property names on the JavaScript object match the WinRT struct’s. Chakra will implicitly create an instance of the WinRT struct for you when you call a WinRT method
that takes that WinRT struct as a parameter and fill in the WinRT struct’s values with the values from the corresponding properties on your JavaScript object.
// C# WinRT component public struct ExampleStruct { public string String; public int Int; }
public sealed class ExampleStructContainer { ExampleStruct value; public void Set(ExampleStruct value) { this.value = value; }
public ExampleStruct Get() { return this.value; } }
You cannot have a plain JavaScript object and use it as a WinRT class instance or WinRT interface instance. Chakra does not provide such a conversion even with ES6 classes.
You cannot take a JavaScript object with arbitrary property names that are unknown at compile time and don’t correspond to a specific WinRT struct and pass that into a WinRT method. If you need
to do this, you have to write additional JavaScript code to explicitly convert your arbitrary JavaScript object into an array of property name and value pairs or something else that could be
represented in WinRT.
However, the other direction you can do. An instance of a Windows.Foundation.Collections.IPropertySet implementation in WinRT is projected into JavaScript as a JavaScript object with property
names and values corresponding to the key and value pairs in the IPropertySet. In this way you can project a WinRT object as a JavaScript object with arbitrary property names and types. But
again, the reverse is not possible. Chakra will not convert an arbitrary JavaScript object into an IPropertySet.
// C# WinRT component public sealed class PropertySetContainer { private Windows.Foundation.Collections.IPropertySet otherValue = null;
public Windows.Foundation.Collections.IPropertySet other { get { return otherValue; } set { otherValue = value; } } }
public sealed class PropertySet : Windows.Foundation.Collections.IPropertySet { private IDictionary map = new Dictionary();
public PropertySet() { map.Add("abc", "def"); map.Add("ghi", "jkl"); map.Add("mno", "pqr"); } // ... rest of PropertySet implementation is simple wrapper around the map member.
// JS code var propertySet = new ExampleWinRTComponent.ExampleNamespace.PropertySet(); console.log("propertySet: " + JSON.stringify(propertySet)); // propertySet: {"abc":"def","ghi":"jkl","mno":"pqr"}
var propertySetContainer = new ExampleWinRTComponent.ExampleNamespace.PropertySetContainer(); propertySetContainer.other = propertySet; console.log("propertySetContainer.other: " + JSON.stringify(propertySetContainer.other)); // propertySetContainer.other: {"abc":"def","ghi":"jkl","mno":"pqr"}
There’s also no way to implicitly convert a DOM object into a WinRT type. If you want to write third party WinRT code that interacts with the DOM, you must do so indirectly and explicitly in
JavaScript code that is interacting with your third party WinRT. You’ll have to extract the information you want from your DOM objects to pass into WinRT methods and similarly have to pass
messages out from WinRT that say what actions the JavaScript should perform on the DOM.
First time I see transparent LED being used. Feels science fictiony.
I sure missed these guys. 
The Automation Paradox discussed http://spectrum.ieee.org/podcast/aerospace/aviation/the-benefits-of-risk/ …. Coming soon to all of our cars
Back to the Future II writer Bob Gale: Biff Tannen was based on Donald Trump. No joke.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/10/21/how-back-to-the-future-predicted-trump.html … pic.twitter.com/kGvrFxhxxc
The movie "Hackers" was released 20 years ago tomorrow. Here is the theatrical trailer
which punked theater goers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-H3YnCcrM0 …
The Microsoft Edge @MSEdgeDev team is
hiring a Senior Software Engineer! http://bit.ly/1CRaQz8 . Help us make the web better #cpp #jobs
War in the Web 2.0 era: how Air Forces deal (or don’t) with Internet-based flight
tracking tools. Interesting http://theaviationist.com/2014/10/13/war-2-adsb-opsec/ …
1. House 2. Dressed as house 3. Listening to house 4. Rendition of Brick House 5.
While painting house 6. Onto House http://boingboing.net/2015/03/30/deep-deep-deep-deep-deep-deep.html …
"This assert would've saved me hours of debugging. Why was it off?" *git blame* commit:
"disable assert that caused test failures" *sobs*
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