SoylentNews

Snotnose writes:

Dang, forgot the link. Lets try this again.

The Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield spent five months in 2012 and 2013 twirling around the Earth in command of the International Space Station. Hadfield guesses he made several thousand orbits of the planet during that time, and though he was never exactly bored, he certainly found some novel hobbies – tweeting astonishing pictures (he took 45,000) and at one point posting a video cover version of David Bowie’s Space Oddity that went viral back on Earth. Arguably the first astronaut to properly intrigue the masses since the 1960s, Hadfield, 56, has published two books since he landed. His Major Tom has been viewed more than 27m times.

The American artist Randall Munroe knows something, too, about capturing an audience in the age of the fast and fickle online share. Munroe’s webcomics, produced under the banner of xkcd and promising “romance, sarcasm, math and language”, have for years been a part of the social media fabric.

Here's what happens [theguardian.com] when they meet and have a conversation

Original Submission