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Canadarm Kinesthesia

Posted by michael on from the 7-day-disabled-list-not-an-option dept.

McSpew writes: "Astronauts on the International Space Station accidentally banged the space station's $600 million robot arm into the side of the station. No damage was done, but engineers still haven't figured out just what's wrong with the arm."

4 comments

  1. Damn... by return+42 · · Score: 3

    ...I knew we shouldn't have let that guy Strangelove design the arm!

  2. Accident Report by Sygiinu · · Score: 2

    The arm collided with a stationary space station coming the other way.

  3. Allision by geoswan · · Score: 1
    The arm collided with a stationary space station coming the other way.

    If an object is stationary, then striking it is not a "collision" it is an "allision". I think that space _stations_ are, by definition, stationary 8-).

    1. Re:Allision by Rytsarsky · · Score: 1

      I think Space Stations, by laws of physics, orbit. ISS's orbit is ~90 minutes.

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