Boy, did that take a long time
Boy, did that take a long time. Those guys were here until 2AM, making me run through all kinds of tests, and even trying out a little change to some of my software. They say it's a fix they want to have ready just in case my temperature controller goes out of whack in orbit. Like that's gonna happen! Seems like a waste of time to me, but everybody seems to be fixated on making sure everything works.
Overnight they took away the source of X-rays I was looking at all day, and made me stare at darkness. Don't tell anyone, but it never looks completely dark to me! A couple times a minute I see a really bright flash. They said that's from cosmic rays that just happen to go through me and into my detectors. It's kind of annoying, but it's pretty easy to tell the cosmic rays from the real X-rays. Everyone says there'll be a lot more cosmic rays (they call them “background”) in orbit, without the atmosphere to protect me, but they still wanted to measure how much it happens down here. Whatever.
