Houston...We Have A Problem...

Space Babies?


Take a look at this story about a woman near Chicago who's baby monitor is picking up NASA TV transmissions from orbit.

PALATINE, Ill. - An elementary school science teacher in this Chicago suburb doesn't have to turn on the news for an update on NASA's space mission. She just turns on her video baby monitor.

Since Sunday, one of the two channels on Natalie Meilinger's baby monitor has been picking up black-and-white video from inside the space shuttle Atlantis. The other still lets her keep an eye on her baby.

"Whoever has a baby monitor knows what you'll usually see," Meilinger said. "No one would ever expect this."

Live video of the mission is available on NASA's Web site, so it's possible the monitor is picking up a signal from somewhere.

"It's not coming straight from the shuttle," NASA spokeswoman Brandi Dean said. "People here think this is very interesting and you don't hear of it often — if at all."

What's amazing to me is that everybody is running around in circles flapping their arms about this--calling NASA and the news people--instead of looking around the neighborhood for someone with an unsecured wireless network and also happens to like watching the NASA TV website.

It's got to be either coming from a nearby 900 MHZ wireless nextork, else the woman's husband is playing a joke on her and just hasn't had the guts to admit it yet.

You have my permission to stop yapping about silly stuff like this and get back to what you're supposed to be doing today.

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