Hack in Space

MelloDawg writes: "From the press release: NASA's Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) spacecraft, which some had given up for dead in December after critical guidance components failed, was returned to full operations when the team developed an innovative new guidance system. The system uses a complex new set of procedures that lets controllers use electromagnets in the satellite to push and pull on the Earth's magnetic field. Details of the mission are online."

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[Little Billy Gates]

here I am sitting 2 am in the morning trying to fix my printer for last 4 hours... :/
here i am posting on slashdot, just remembering unplugging the printer before I took it apart and not pluggging it back in... :/

fuck it, i'm off to a bar. THANKS NASA! first you ruin my dreams of being an astronaut (at 6'5" I am too tall) and now you rob me of my manhood... or geekness... call it either way.

Re:Magnet Joke

[Jonny 290]

Because 'replusive' isn't a fucking word.

Repulsive is, however.

The sad thing is..

[TrebleJunkie]

...in this day and age, I wouldn't be surprised if they get a cease-and-desist order in the mail in the next few days because they're infringing on someone's patent or violating someone's intellectual property.

But hey, that's the screwy stated of intellectual property and patent law these days.

Re:Where to put angular momentum

[feloneous cat]

"You can throw away something..."

Perhaps we can put some of the dead-head managers on satellites (let us call them the sat-Elite - they don't know how to spell, so no one will know the difference). We can make them PAY to be one of these sat-Elitists, thereby enriching NASA and taking out useless human flotsam at the same time...

Or not.