Right, OK. So what I do to open the book is to ask the reader to image that they walking past a shallow pond, maybe somewhere in the park or or university campus.
Visitors can buy DVDs of disaster footage taken in the immediate aftermath of the quake: aerial before-and-after photographs of the city, and photo books that the vendors make sure to leave open to the most ghastly image of a half-dozen broken, gray young bodies, buried in the rubble.
Of course, they're still in the starting stages at the moment -- a few outstanding issues include the amount of sunlight needed and if the geometry of the ISS window affects theimage -- but NASA hopes to open up the ISERV to other scientists in a few months once it has all its kinks worked out.
