
Oh, you couldn’t leave the Wii at home for ONE WEEK!
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picture: dunno source, via our lol builder. lol caption: smarti22
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Oh, you couldn’t leave the Wii at home for ONE WEEK!
Who is that in the picture? Tell us in the Comments
picture: dunno source, via our lol builder. lol caption: smarti22
I can’t help but imagine playing metroid in space. That seems so incredibly awesome…or perhaps Zelda or Brawl. Dammit now i want to be an astronaut
I was always addicted to “Defender”…How cool would that be!!!!!!
wii dont work in space.
general knowladge FAIL!
(no gravity, andnot much lectricity)
I’m pretty sure you don’t need gravity to play a Wii. Sure, a single swing in tennis will send you spinning around unless you’re movement is restricted, but technically, it will still work.
And I’m pretty sure they could spare the electricity to run a Wii. I mean, they have a pretty good supply of solar energy don’t they?
If you we’re referring to yourself with that “knowladge FAIL!” comment, you would be right.
P.S. nice spelling moron!
MarioCart in space FTW!
Humor: WIN!
Accuracy: FAIL! (Wii controllers are wireless)
maybe he just let the nunchuck attachment float off >.>
Plus it wouldn’t work. The controller depends on gravity to work.
Damn reality and it’s ability to ruin perfectly good humor!!!!!!
I *think* (not sure) the Wii actually uses a camera to capture movement; otherwise, I think inertia would still apply even in a microgravity environment. Anyone certain of the facts?
it uses 4 accelerometers to capture movement. 1 in the nunchuk and 3 in the wiimote. accelerometers measure a change in velocity and the varying velocities of the different accelerometers allow the control to simulate motion detection.
Aaa then I’ll just get my Xbox 360 (and my laptop ofcourse, when the ISS gets wireless intertubez) to the ISS when I’m an astronaut
Gears of War….IN SPAAAACE!
Still made it to the front page! Woooohoooo!
And still funny.
Bush was elected president. Twice.
Yeah, but his LOLs never made it to the front page.
P
my comment means that just because someone achieves something auspicious, that doesn’t mean they are actually any good at it. All aboard the short bus!
I hope it’s not Asteroids. That would be like watching United 93 on the in-flight movie.
Okay, I feel old now.
Dude, Asteroids was an AWESOME game! Space Invaders would be worse.
*clutches Wiimote* I don’t have a problem! >.>
Looks almost like a teeny tiny man got trapped in a giant clothes dryer.
That is astronaut Mark Polanski during the STS-98 mission.
I don’t think Wii would work in space. Doesn’t it use gravity?
huh…does it? I know it has motion sensors…i suppose you would need gravity for that…*ponders*
I wouldn’t think that infrared is affected by lack of gravity, since some telescopes use it and things in space emit it.
Motion sensing would not be affected… you are still throwing the motion sensor around inside the controller. No gravity doesn’t mean no inertia.
yes that’s true, but doesn’t it use gravity to tell the tilting and such? for instance on the wii menu with the hand, if you flip the wiimote upsidedown so the buttons face down it will make the hand flip down. If you turn it off and turn it on the hand will still point down.
Somebody email Nintendo and ask them if the Wii works in zero gravity.
And post the reply too!
wii does not use infrared to detect movement. it uses accelerometers to detect changes in velocity. the infrared has only to do with the cursor on the screen not the motion detection.
If it doesn’t use infrared then what is the senor bar that sits on your tv sensing? I recall the directions calling it an infrared sensor….
I think the confusion is between accelerometers, and gyroscopes. It is gyroscopes that might have more difficulty working in space.
Actually, that should be Wiik, not week.
I believe “weak” is the term you’re looking for.
How about we see how many unfunny PKs we can get in a row! Woo!
Looks like Michael Lopez-Alegria (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Lopez-Alegria)
What?
No Super Mario galaxy Jokes yet?
I CAN’T BELIEVE I MISSED THAT!… But now i can’t think of any…
I do believe that is Tom Hanks…
LOL.. epic picture..:D
Thanks for the article..:)